September 28
48 B.C.E.: Pompey the Great was assassinated on orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt. While many Roman leaders get low marks in terms of Jewish History, Pompey rates at a very low level. He was the Roman who desecrated the Holy of Holies and then mocked the Jews for praying to nothing. Besides which, his rival, Julius Caesar, had comparatively positive relations with the Jews.
351: The Eastern Roman army led by Constantius II defeated the western forces supporting the usurper Magnentius at the Battle of Mursa Major. The Jews might have been better off if Magentinus had won since, as can be seen by his treatment of pagans, he was not a creature of Christianity. They certainly could not have been worse off since Constantius II vigorously pursued the anti-Jewish policies begun by his father Constantine.
1066: William the Conqueror invaded England. The first verifiable Jewish presence in England began with William who, in spite of opposition from the Church, allowed Jews from Rouen, France, to settle in his newly won kingdom.
1105: Twelve year old Simon of Hauteville, the heir of Roger I of Sicily, after whose conquest of Sicily Jews were found to be living in Syracuse, Messina and Catania and whose wife was reportedly a member of the Pierleoni family which “was baptized in the first half of the 11thcentury, passed away today
1187: After two days of heavy fighting the forces of Saladin begin to breach the walls of Jerusalem as the Crusaders make a last ditch to hold on to their most important conquest. (Editor’s note – reminds me of two usurpers trying to lay claim to property that belongs to a third party.)
1197: The Holy Roman Emperor, Henry VI, died. During his reign outbreaks of violence aimed at the Jews took in an area that included the districts along the Rhine and in Vienna itself. Henry was also the Emperor who held King Richard I of England for ransom after the Third Crusade. The Jewish community in England “was forced to contribute toward the king's ransom 5,000 marks, more than three times as much as the contribution of the City of London.” In other words, Henry not only would not protect the Jews in his own realm, his greed played a key role in bankrupting the Jews living beyond the boundaries of his power.
1238: King James I, of Aragon, conquers the Kingdom of Valencia. This is the same King James who presided over the debate Pablo Christiani and Nachmanides. In a departure of from the norm, Nachmanides won the debate and King James awarded Nachmanides a prize and declared that never before had he heard "an unjust cause so nobly defended."
1251: King Jaime I declared, "No Jews will hold office in the Kingdom of Valencia." The following year Jews were banned from office in all of Catalan and Aragon.
1394: Pedro de Luna elected elevated to the papacy as Benedict XII whom the Council of Constance which deposed him in 1415 as having “caused much suffering to the Jews” and who “shrank from no measure” to force
1494: Bernardino da Feltre passed away. Born Martin Tomitano in 1439, he was a priest and religious Italian of Friars Minor. He became a priest in 1463. In his religious fanaticism, he railed against the Jews who deemed them the murderers of Christ, and was among those that caused the most deaths in the Italian Jewish community of the time. In 1475, in Trento, he reportedly delivered a series of anti-Jewish sermons that led to 15 members of the local Jewish community being sentenced to death. The Jews were falsely accused of the death of Simon, a boy found dead in the Jewish Quarter. He was recognized as a saint by the Catholic Church for his alleged martyrdom in 1588. In 1965, the beatification process was canceled because of the unfounded historical accuracy of the story.
1533(9thof Tishrei, 5294): Erev of Yom Kippur; Kol Nidre
1577: The Sultan ordered a census of the Jews of Safed for the purposes of raising taxes.
1614: The Emperor ordered the arrest of Vincenz Fettmilch who led an uprising in Frankfurt that included the murder of Jews and the looting of the Judengasse.
1615, Johann Friedrich, Archbishop of Bremen that if the Hamburg council imposed a special Jewish safe-conduct on his protégé and court Jew "Solomon Herscheider, Jewish physician living at Stade," who had hitherto been permitted to conduct business and to trade in Hamburg without taxation, the Portuguese of the latter city would no longer be allowed free passage through his territory.”
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/13981-stade
1619: In Amsterdam, Jacob Israel Belmonte, the Portuguese born sone of Andre Belmonte and Catarina Moniz and his was Simcha Israel Belmonte gave birth to Mozes Belmonte
1634: Comus, John Milton’s work dealing with the struggle between good and evil appeared for the first time. He would tackle the topic again in his more famous work, Paradise Lost. In the meantime, Milton joined other writers of his time including John Locke in writing in support of a Jewish state. This was in line with Christian views about the conditions needed for the Second Coming.
1662: In San Miguel, Spain, Felipe Nieto, the Venice born son of Phinehas Nieto, and his wife Maria Flores Viya gave birth Miguel Nieto Viya
1753(29thof Elul, 5513): Erev Rosh Hashanah; English Jews can look forward to becoming full citizens of the realms thanks to the recently passed “Jews Bill”
1755(23rdof Tishrei, 5516): Simchat Torah
1764(2ndof Tishrei, 5525): Second Day of Rosh Hashana
1771(20thof Tishrei, 5532): Shabbat Chol Hamoed Sukkoth
1772(1stof Tishrei, 5533): Just a week after the treaty partitioning Poland among the Russians, Prussians and Russians is signed Polish Jews observe Rosh Hashanah under one of three different rulers.
1774(23rdof Tishrei, 5535): Simchat Torah
1776(15thof Tishrei, 5637): As the British begin their seven year occupation of New York during the American Revolution, many of the city’s Jews are not in the city to celebrate Sukkoth having fled because they support independence and are considered to be rebels.
1781: Mordechai Abrams, the commander of a militia company, Jacob Cohen, the Captain of a cavalry company, Moses Myers, a major in the Virginia militia and Samuel Myers were among the troops George Washington led from Williamsburg to Yorktown for the climactic clash with Cornwallis.
1787(16thof Sukkoth, 5548): Second Day of Sukkoth
1787(16thof Sukkoth, 5584): Reyna Hays, the daughter of Judah Hays who married Isaac Touro in Newport, RI in 1773 passed away today in Boston.
1791(29thof Elul, 5551): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1791: France became the first country in Europe to emancipate its entire Jewish population
1793(22ndof Tishrei, 5554) Shabbat and Shmini Atzeret
1795(15thof Tishrei, 5556): As the French battle the European monarchies to save their revolution Jews observe Sukkoth
1797: Date on the will of Israel Abbady, the former chazzan from Barbados, a copy of which can be found in the American Jewish Archives in Cincinnati, Ohio.
1798(18thof Tishrei, 5559): Fourth Day of Sukkoth
1798: “Boston businessman Moses Michael Hays, the New York born son of Dutch Jewish immigrants Judah Hays and Rebecca Michaels, husband of Rachel Myers and brother-in-law to New York silversmith Myer Myers and Rabbi Isaac de Abraham Touro who was a supporter of the American Revolution and founder of the Massachusetts Bank which survives today as the Bank of America wrote to George President George Washington
1800(9thof Tishrei, 5561): Erev Yom Kippur; Kol Nidre chanted for the last time during the Presidency of John Adams.
1804(23rdof Tishrei, 5565): Simchat Torah
1804: In Virginia, L. Joseph & Company is scheduled to be closed today because of “their uniform practice to do no business on days ordained by Mosaic Law to be holy.”
1804: In Bavaria, “Yiddel Abraham Alexander” and Loeb Fleisher gave birth to Meyer Fleisher the husband Caroline Blum with whom he had ten children
1805(5thof Tishrei, 5566): Parashat Vayeilech; Shabbat Shuva
1810(29thof Elul, 5570): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1810(29thof Elul, 5570): Abraham Goldsmid passed away. Born in Holland in or around 1756, he went to England with his father where he joined his brother Benjamin in a series of financial transaction that led to the creating of the banking house Baring Goldsmid. He lost his fortune in currency manipulation involving the East India Company.
1811(10thof Tishrei, 5572): Yom Kippur
1812(22ndof Tishrei, 5573, Shemini Atzeret
1812: Birthdate of German native Mina Putzel, the wife of Abraham Lebrecht with whom she had ten children.
1816(6thof Tishrei, 5577): Parashat Vaeyeilich; Shabbat Shuvah.
1818: Two days after he had passed away, 18 year old Alexander Levy, the son of David and Hannah Levy was buried today at “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.
1821(2ndof Tishrei, 5582): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1822: In Germany, “Leopold Joseph Ullman and Judith Klara Lob Ullman gave birth to Emanuel Ullman the husband of Sarah Ullman and the father of Clara, Leo and Solomon Ullman.
1823: Pope Leo XII was chosen to lead the Catholic Church. Leo was a reactionary seeking to do away with the lingering effects of the French Revolution and the wave of liberalism that it had unleashed. He did pass harsh laws aimed that made life in the ghetto even more miserable for the Jews than it had been. But he also attacked other forces that he connected with heresy, modernity or any deviation from accepted conservative Catholic doctrine. According to some commentators, his death was not an overly mourned event in the Christian world.
1823: Birthdate of French Painter Alexandre Cabanel who instructed Jewish artist Solomon Joseph Solomon.
1824: At Great Yarmouth Elizabeth Turner and historian Sir Francis Palgrave (Francis Ephraim Cohen) gave birth to their first son, poet and critic, Francis Turner Palgrave.
1825(16thof Tishrei, 5586): Second Day of Sukkoth observed for the last time during the presidency of John Q. Adams.
1827: In Brandenburg, Prussia, Abraham and Sophia Blumenberg gave birth to their 21stchild Leopold Blumenberg the decorated Prussian military officer who settled in 1854 settled in Baltimore, MD where he would organize the Fifth Maryland Infantry Regiment for the Union Army and climax his military career at the Battle of Antietam where as a Colonel leading his regiment he was severely wounded by a Rebel sharpshooter.
1829(1stof Tishrei, 5590): Rosh Hashanah
1830: Ferdinand I, a “tragic monarch who was ultimately was forced to abdicate because of his mental deficiencies” began his reign as King of Hungary until he was forced to abdicated during the Revolutions of 1848 which temporarily brought a promise of real reform including the removal of disabilities for Jews living in several European countries.
1835: Joseph Phillips married Charlotte Mozely at Hambro Synagogue today.
1838(9thof Tishrei, 5599): Erev Yom Kippur; Kol Nidre
1839(20th of Tishrei, 5600): Shabbat Chol Ha Moed Sukkoth
1839(20th of Tishrei, 5600): Manis (Morris) Jacobs passed away. Born in 1782 at Amsterdam he made his to New Orleans where he as the founder and first President of Congregation Shanagarai Chesed. Although he did not have smicha, he also served as the congregation’s first “rabbi."
1840(1stof Tishrei, 5601): Rosh Hashanah
1840: Services were held for the first time in Woolwich, UK at the house of Mrs. Myer.
1840: Birthdate Karl Bettelheim, the Hungarian born Austrian born physician whose area of expertise was “the pathology of the heart and blood vessels.”
1841: Birthdate of French statesman Georges Clemenceau. The world remembers him as the Tiger who served as Prime Minister of France in the last years of World War I, providing the French with the will to fight on against the Germans. Along with Britain’s Lloyd George and America’s Woodrow Wilson, he dictated the terms of the Versailles Treaty. But Jews remember him as a defender of Alfred Dreyfus when the Jewish Colonel and the Jews of France stood charges as traitors.
1844(15thof Tishrei, 5605): Sukkoth
1845(26thof Elul, 5606): Hungarian born Talmudist and author Michael Kittseer whose works included “Salme Nedabah” passed away today in Presburg.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9357-kittseer-michael
1848(1stof Tishrei, 5609): Rosh Hashanah
1850: The United States Navy abolished flogging as a form of punishment. One of America's early Jewish naval officers played a key role in this change. Uriah Phillips Levy had abolished flogging aboard his ship back in the 1830's, an action that led to his court martial. However, the decision was overturned by President Tyler and he was reinstated. Levy commanded the Mediterranean Squadron of the U.S. Navy and reached the rank of Commodore (in the old Navy, this was rank just below Admiral). Levy passed away in 1862. He was an in awe of President Jefferson. Monticello, Jefferson's home, had been sold to pay off his debts. Levy purchased the home with intent of restoring it as shrine to Jefferson. The Levy family maintained Monticello until it was turned over the Jefferson Memorial Associate in the 1920's.
1850(22nd of Tishrei, 5611): Shemini Atzeret
1851(2ndof Tishrei, 5612): 2nd Day of Rosh Hashana
1851: In Vienna, Isak and Anna Teller gave birth to Ludwig Teller, the husband Nanet Teller and Natalie Teller.
1851: Hermann de Stern, a Portuguese baron and banker and the head of Stern Bros., of London, Paris and Belgium, and Julia Goldsmid gave birth to Herbert Stern, 1st Baron Michelham
1854: In Eschau, Bavaria, Simon Michael and Sarah Ottenheimer gave birth to Elias Michael, the husband of Rachel Stix, the vice president of Rice-Stix Dry Goods Company, the St. Louis, MO Company founded by William Stix which by the time of the “1904 World’s Fair would be the city’s largest business.”
1855(16thof Tishrei, 5616): Second Day of Sukkoth
1857(10th of Tishrei, 5618): Yom Kippur
1857: In Sacramento, CA, Asher and Hannah Bien Hamburger gave birth to Harvard trained attorney David Asher Hamburger, the husband of Katherine Hamburger and father of David, Allen and Howard Hamburger.
1857: New York Times reported today on the observance of Yom Kippur saying that, “the custom among the Jews” is to meet together, “confessing with penitence their transgressions, fasting for many hours and refraining from all manual labor…Today is also the day of reconciliation…between those whom occasion of ill-filling may have arisng during the year and of the renewing of fraternal relations.” The observance will last all day until the “first three stars of evening show themselves” at which time the fasting comes to an end “and the reign of feasting and rejoicing” follows.
1858: “Charge of Bigamy” published today reported that a 30 year old Hebrew named Samuel Morris has been arrested on charges of “stealing wearing apparel from the boarding houses of Mrs. Schrimer and Mrs. Wardell. He had lived at both of these locations and his wife was found wearing a silk vest which was part of the stolen property. Mr. Morris may also be guilty of bigamy.
1858: The "Personals" column published today reported that the Jews of Boston have adopted a series of resolutions thanking Parliament for the admission of Mr. Rothschild.
1860(12thof Tishrei, 5621): Leon Maness Ritterband, a native of Poland who married Benvenida Solis in New York in 1835 passed away today in New York City.
1860: “On Visiting Barnum’s Little Theatre” published today shows the impact of the Bible on popular American culture as it reported that “the earliest dramatic efforts of the middle ages, which were always taken from Scriptural subjects, not unnaturally passes across the mind, as the title of the piece to be represented is announced, -- "Joseph and his brethren." A portion of the Scripture narrative is mingled with the numerous other events which succeed each other with startling rapidity, and are purely imaginative. There are Babylonians -- including the King -- by the score among the dramatis personae, and a corresponding number of Jews and Egyptians. The piece is placed on the stage in a gorgeous manner, and evidently gratifies, not only the children, but the parents also.”
1862(4thof Tishrei, 5623): Tzom Gedaliah
1863(15thof Tishrei, 5624): As Union forces regroup after the Battle of Chickamauga Jews observe Sukkoth
1864: Joseph Abraham Britton married Annie Joseph today.
1867: Toronto became the capital of Canada. At this time Toronto had a Jewish population of about 200 people. The community supported one synagogue called Toronto Hebrew Congregation-Holy Blossom Temple. Holy Blossom was Orthodox but would later join the Reform movement. The Jewish community has grown to over 150,000 and, along with Montreal, is one of the two leading centers for Jewish life in Canada.
1868: In Staufen Leopold and Louise Kahn gave birth to Baruch Kahn
1869(23rdof Tishrei, 5630): Jews celebrated Simchat Torah for the first time during the Presidency of U.S. Grant
1870(3rdof Tishrei, 5631): Tzom Gedaliah
1870: In Novaya Michailovka, Russia, Yitzchak and Beyla Shapira gave birth Avraham Shaipria, “the legendary pioneer shomer of Petach Tikva.
1873: Establishment of Temple B'nai Jeshurun. It is the oldest of Des Moines' synagogues. Many members of this congregation are buried in Des Moines' oldest Jewish cemetery, Emanuel Jewish.
1873: In Michigan, Congregation Beth El officially affiliated with the Union of American Hebrew Congregations
1874(17th of Tishrei, 5635): Third Day of Sukkoth
1874: In Bialystok, Moses and Feiga (Fanny) Bayuk, gave birth to Meyer Bayuk the founder along with his brothers Samuel and Max what became “Bayuk Cigars, Inc., the manufacturer of ‘Phillies’” and the husband of Julia Bayuk and Florence Bayuk.
1874: “Feast of Tabernacles” published today described the observances on the second day of Sukkoth, including the fact that the Reform only observe the first and last days of the festival while the Orthodox observe the second day in the same manner as the first day. According to the story, the entire service was “conducted in accordance with the command found in the 23rdchapter of Leviticus. The congregants were dressed in white, recited the Hallel and waved the branches of palm, myrtle and willow as well as the citron.
1875: Birthdate of Artur Hahn who was transported from Prague to Terezin in 1942 and then on to Baranovici where he was murdered at the age of 64.
1875(28th of Elul, 5635): Sixty-eight-year old Leopold Hirsch, the German born son of Lea and Simon Seev Hirsch and the husband of Therese Tolzele Hirsch passed away.
1876(10th of Tishrei, 5637): Yom Kippur observed for the last time during the Presidency of U.S. Grant.
1877: Reverend T. De Witt Talmage delivered a lecture in the Brooklyn Tabernacle entitled “The Admission of Jews Into Gentile Society” and “the Death of the Mormon.” He began by discussing the tempest created last summer by the Jewish being banned from one of the leading hotels. He presented an argument that Gentiles were no better than Jews and Jews were no better than Gentiles. The decision to ban the Jews was based on business and should be left to stand as a business matter. He then went on to condemn Brigham Young and the Mormons.
1877(21st of Tishrei, 5638): Hoshana Rabah
1877: Today was market day in Bayard Street in NYC. Reportedly, throngs of Polish Jews were busy buying geese and chickens from one of a multiplicity of buildings that have signs saying “Kosher” their windows.
1878(1st of Tishrei, 5639): Rosh Hashanah
1878: In Cincinnati, OH, “Alexander and Jennie Wolf (Greenfield) gave birth to University of Cincinnati trained “physician, bacteriologist and philatelist Leo Greenfield Tedesche
1878: Four thousand worshippers attended services today Temple Emanu-El on New York’s Fifth Avenue. Rabbi Gustav Gottheil led the service and delivered a sermon in English. The sermon was based on a verse from Genesis, “So he sent his brethren away, and they departed, and he said unto them, see that you fall not by the wayside.” Professor Davis served as organist as well as music director for the service.
1878: It was reported today that several agencies in New Orleans were soliciting funds to aid those suffering from Yellow Fever including the Hebrew Benevolent Association.
1879: In Pittsburg, PA, Charles J and Esther (Rosenthal) Stein gave birth to University of Pittsburgh trained attorney Abraham Cass Stein, a member of the Pennsylvania State Legislature and the huband of Lillian Friedman whom he married in San Francisco in 1915.
https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/BiosHistory/MemBio.cfm?ID=4064&body=H
https://peoplelegacy.com/abraham_cass_stein-7r6k2A[ML1]
1880(23rd of Tishrei, 5641): For the last time Jews celebrate Simchat Torah under President Hays.
1880: In Chicago, Joseph and Miriam Cahn gave birth to Yale graduate and broker Morton David Cahn, the husband of Julia Elizabeth Cahn.
1881: Forty-eight Jews who had arrived at Castle Garden yesterday will be sent to Chicago and Toledo today by a recently formed committee of New York Jews that is charged with meeting their initial needs in the United States. The group includes ten families and most of the workers are tailors and farmers.
1882(15th of Tishrei): Sukkoth
1884(9th of Tishrei, 5645): Erev Yom Kippur
1884: It was reported today that Austrian Emperor is prepared to raise Herr Hirsch, the Chief Rabbi of Prague “to noble rank.”
1884: The case of Abraham Jacobs and Jacob Jacobs, two Jews who had charged each other with assault was heard at the Tombs Police Court today. Since there were no other witnesses and each person’s story had equal weight, charges were dismissed.
1887(10th of Tishrei, 5648): Yom Kippur
1887: In Hungary, Amali Heller and Samuel Miller gave birth to NYU trained dentist and oral surgeon Simon Miller the husband of Helen Kornfield and man-of-letters as can be by his contributions “to Hebrew, Yiddish, Hungarian, German and English publications as well as his services Editor and publisher the Hebrew monthly Apiryon.
1888(23rd of Tishrei, 5649): Simchat Torah
1889: Birthdate of Berlin native Hans Behrendt, “the actor, screenwriter and director” who was murdered at Auschwitz in 1942.
1890(14th of Tishrei, 5651): Erev Sukkoth
1890: Rabbi Gustav Gottheil led services this evening at Temple Emanu-El where “the pulpit was festooned with garlands of flowers and decorated with fruits and blossoming plants” that included a “majestic palm…a myrtle and a willow.”
1890: Birthdate of Jennie Paykel Krasnick, the daughter of Abraham Paykel and the wife of Sam Krasnick, the Russian born American clothing merchant who in 1906 moved to Sheboygan where he was a leader of the Jewish community.
1891: Minister Smith leaves for St. Petersburg where he will present President Harrison’s concern about Russian treatment of their Jewish population. This represents a reversal of the behavior of American officials posted to the Czar’s government. Secretary of the Legation Wurtz has exerted pressure against any move to improve the conditions of Russian Jews and “other oppressed classes with whom the great-hearted American people really sympathize.
1891: Jewish Emancipation Day, marking the 100thanniversary of the National Assembly’s vote to grant full citizenship to the Jews of France, was celebrated with an afternoon and evening of merriment at Sulzer’s Harlem River Park.
1892: The annual reported of the Trustees of the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews, a summary of which was published today showed there are 160 people living at the facility and that the death rate during the past year “was the lowest in the history of the institution.”
1892: In Russia, The May Laws were amended so that Jews having the “right of residence might rent rooms or might build houses of their own on land leased for the purpose.”
1892: Judge Henry M. Goldfogle chaired tonight’s meeting of those interested in providing assistance to those who suffered losses during the Ludlow Street Fire and $300 was raised with more help promised by Jacob H. Schiff and the United Hebrew Charities.
1893: In Vienna, Ludwig Geiringer and the former Martha Wetheimer gave birth to Hilda Geiringer, who overcame religious prejudice and sexism to become a world class mathematician.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/geiringer-hilda
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20191031-hilda-geiringer-mathematician-who-fled-the-nazis
1893: Mrs. Annie Bauman came to post bail for Max Kestenbaum and Ernest Sachs, her confederates in a scheme to swindle her husband Jacob Baumann the superintendent of the Engle, Heller & Co, a wholesale liquor business.
1894: Birthdate of Lower East Side native and tailor turned clothing store owner Abe Stark who gained fame with a gimmick at Ebbets Field and went on to serve as President of the New York City Council and borough president of Brooklyn.
https://www.nytimes.com/1972/07/04/archives/abe-stark-of-brooklyn-who-led-city-councili-dies.html
1895(10th of Tishrei, 5656): Yom Kippur
1898: Birthdate of St. Louis, MO native and Northwestern University trained Chicago real estate attorney Maxim Hirsch.
1895: In Pinsk, “Jewish Russian gold tycoon Grigori Benenson” who was related to the Rothschild family and his wife gave birth Flora Benenson who married Harold Solomon and gained fame as Flora Solomon the mother of Peter Benenson, the founder of Amnesty International and “the first woman hired to improve working conditions at Marks and Spencer in London.”
1895: Communicants and Voters” published today provides a snapshot of religious affiliations in the United States where there are twenty million “church communicants” of whom 130,313 are Jews placing them second from last on the tally followed only by the Friends (Quakers) with 107, 208
1896(21st of Tishrei, 5657): Seventh Day of Sukkoth; Hoshana Raba
1896: Birthdate of Russian native Abraham Edelman, the American rabbi who came to the United States in 1922.
http://old.virtualjudaica.com/Item/28522/Letter_by_R._Abraham_Isaac_Edelman
1897(2nd of Tishrei, 5658): 2nd day of Rosh Hashanah
1897: Two days after he had passed away, 56 year old Isaac Joseph, the son of Solomon Joseph and the former Priscilla Samuel, was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1897: In what is now modern day Ukraine Benjamin and Yetta Kramer gave birth to Samuel Noah Kramer the husband of the former Mildred Tokarsky and the award winning authority on Sumerian literature and culture passed. (As reported by John Noble Wilford)
1897: The Philadelphia Inquirer described the observance of Rosh Hashanah in Camden, NJ where the Jews held services in Furey’s Hall at the corner of Fourth Street and Kaighn Avenue.
1898: Birthdate of Boston native, Samuel Morris Gordon, the chemist who earned degrees at Tufts, Iowa State and the University of Wisconsin
1899: Seventy-seven year old Isaac Bierman who is the Director of the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews and his wife celebrated their golden wedding anniversary today.
1899: Birthdate of Boris Yefimov, a Russian cartoonist who would “despised by Hitler and beloved by Stalin” and “who for 70 years and 70,000 drawings” would wield “his talent as a keen sword to advance the goals of his country.”
1900: Nathan Straus’s Alvez, one of the two fastest trotters on the Speedway, won a three-heat brush on the Harlem course this afternoon which resulted in the loser having “to contribute $200 to the Galveston Relief Fund.”
1901: Today, Macy’s, the New York department story owned by Isidor and Nathan Straus sold men’s clerical suits for $11.79 and $13.26 which the emporium advertised as saving the customer from “$6.00 to $12.00 on each suit.”
1901(15th of Tishrei, 5662): Sukkoth
1901: In Chicago, “Goldie (Drell) and Samuel Paley” the millionaire cigar maker who moved his family to Philadelphia gave birth to William S. Paley, the University of Pennsylvania graduate who took control of the fledging CBS radio network in the 1920's. He would make it a competitor of the dominant NBC before shifting CBS to television where it would be the dominant network for several decades. Under Paley, CBS represented the gamut of American culture from the lowbrow of I Love Lucy to the highbrow of Edward R. Murrow. One thing that it never did was become a Jewish media outlet, despite what anti-Semitic critics might have said.
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/27/obituaries/william-s-paley-builder-of-cbs-dies-at-89.html
1902(26 of Elul, 5662): Sixty-eight year old Barend Joseph Stokvis, “the professor pharmacodynamics and internal medicine” passed away today. (See Jews and Medicine by Frank Henick)
1902: Sir Elly Kadoorie and his wife gave birth industrialist and philanthropist Sir Horace Kadoorie, the brother of Sir Lawrence Kadoorie and the nephew of Sir Ellis Kadoorie.
1903(7thof Tishrei, 5664): Seventy-six year old Italian patriot Enrico Guastalla who fought with Garibaldi during the wars that created the modern Italian nation passed away today at Milan.
1904(19thof Tishrei, 5665): Chol Ha Moed Sukkoth
1904(19thof Tishrei, 5665): Eighty-two year old Dr. Phineas J. Horowitz who served as Chief of the Navy Bureau of Medicine passed away today
http://www.fau.edu/library/gen-adm68.htm
1905: “Jacob Litt Is Dead” published today included a description of Litt’s rise from program boy at the Grand Opera House in Milwaukee to successful New York theatrical manager whose estate is estimated to be worth more than a million dollars.
1906(9th of Tishrei, 5667): Erev Yom Kippur
1906: Louis and Rebecca Katz Katcher gave birth to Samuel Katcher, the husband of Bessie Starlor Katcher with whom he had three children.
1907: In Chevreuse, Ile-de-France, France, Leopold and Lena Pilichowski gave birth to Thea Ursula Doniach and Amnon Vivien Pilley
1907: Eighty-one year old, Frederick I, the Grand Duke of Baden, a supporter of the Zionist movement who arranged an audience with the Kaiser when he visited Palestine in 1898, passed away today.
1907: “A group of Poalei Zion members gathered at Yitzhak Ben-Zvi's unfurnished apartment in Jaffa apartment formed Bar-Giora, a Jewish self-defense organization named for Simon Bar Giora, one of the leaders of the Jewish Revolt against the Romans. The founding members were Israel Shochat, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Mendel Portugali, Israel Giladi, Alexander Zaid, Yehezkel Hankin, Yehezkel Nissanov and Moshe Givoni. The goal of the organization was settling the land and guarding it from Arab attackers. Previously, Arab guards had been hired for protection. Many Jews refused to employ members of Bar- Giora fearing it would cause more friction with the local Arabs.. Bar-Giora chose a line from Yaakov Cohen's poem, Habiryonim as its motto. "In fire and blood did Judea fall; in blood and fire Judea shall rise." This was one of the mottos of the Jewish defenders during the pogroms in the Russian Empire. Members swore an oath of secrecy, discipline, selfless service, devotion to the cause and loyalty. All decisions had to be ratified by unanimous vote. All members were required to have least a year's experience in farming. Guarding was put off until the members of the organization had gained enough experience and knowledge of the land. When Hashomer was formed in 1909, Bar-Giora was absorbed into it.
1908(3rdof Tishrei, 5669): Tzom Gedaliah observed for the last time during the Presidency of Teddy Roosevelt who enjoyed wide, popular support among the Jews of the United States.
1909: Birthdate of Al Capp. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, the cartoonist gained fame with the creation of "Li'l Abner." Among the creatures that inhabited the world of Li'l Abner were the Shmoos, little ghost like creatures that when cooked, tasted like any food you would desire. Many said that the concept reminded them of the Biblical manna.
http://lil-abner.com/family-album/
1910: The ninth biennial convention of the Order of Knights of Joseph opened at Rock Island, Illinois.
1910: Birthdate of Ángel Sanz Briz “a Spanish diplomat who served under Francoist Spain during World War and saved the lives of some five thousand Hungarian Jews from deportation to Auschwitz” earning him the appellation "the angel of Budapest"
1911: The Steamer Rhone arrived at Sfax, Tunisia “to-night loaded down with foreign residents from Tripoli” who say “that they left Tripoli because of reports that the ribes in the interior are in a state of effervescence and threatening to descend upon the city and massacre the Europeans and the Jews.”
1912(17thof Tishrei, 5673): Shabbat Shel Sukkoth
1912: In Washington, DC, the Fifteenth International Congress of Hygiene and Demography which Henry Adler of Dallas, TX, Max Goltman of Memphis, TN, Nathan Straus of NY and J.G. Lipman, a Professor at Rutgers were attending as official delegates came to an end.
1912(17thof Tishrei, 5673): Mrs. Elka Kahn passed away today.
1912: Birthdate of Solomon “Sol” Koptiko, the New York born CCNY Center who went on to play professional ball after leaving college in 1936.
1913: Birthdate of psychoanalyst Albert Ellis a founder of the now widely practiced cognitive behavioral therapy. His blunt advice to patients included “forget god-awful pasts, face fears and change actions. He passed away on July 24, 2007 at the age of 93.
1913(26thof Elul, 5673): Eighty seven yeaer old Rachel Etting Cohen , the daughter of Kitty Etting and Richmond native Benjamin cohen who had married in 1819 passed away today.
1914: Seventy-five Jewish refugees arrived in Philadelphia “from the European war zone” and were taken to the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society headquarters at 299 Broadway.
1914: “Answers Jewish Protest” published today provides Postmaster Morgan’s reply to a letter from the East Side Protective Association “protesting against the sub-clerks and sub-carriers of Jewish parentage being forced to work on Yom Kippur” in which he says he is following the same policy as in the past i.e. leave without pay will be granted to those whom apply except in cases where the demand of the workload requires their presence in which case failure to report as requested “will be regarded as insubordination and dealt with as such.”
1914: “Hebrew Federation Officers” published today included a list of those elected to lead the New Jersey Federal of Young Men’s and Young Women’s Hebrew Associations
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9E03E3D7143AE633A2575BC2A96F9C946596D6CF
1915: Birthdate of Ethel Rosenberg. She would join her husband Julius as part of America’s most famous husband and wife spy team. They would both be executed in 1953.
1915: It was reported today that Louis D. Brandeis was opposed to the conference proposed by the American Jewish Committee which is to be held on October 24 saying that it “would not only be futile but dangerous” because “its deliberations would secret” so any decision “would lack the united support of the Jews” of the United States.
1916(1stof Tishrei, 5677): Rosh Hashanah
1916: At Temple Israel, “Rabbi M. H. Harris spoke on ‘War and Life’ and urged that” the United States “should become militant only for peace.
1916: At Temple Beth-El, “Rabbi Samuel Schulman urged the Jews to agree among themselves as to what they wanted before making demands upon other nations” during his sermon on “The Problem of the Jew is the Problem of the World.”
1916: Birthdate of Yizhar Smilansky who was better known by his pen name Samech Yizhar He was an Israeli writer and a great innovator in modern Hebrew literature. His pen name S. Yizhar was given to him by the poet and editor Yitzhak Lamdan, when in 1938 he published Yizhar's first story “Ephraim Goes Back to Alfalfa” in his literary journal Galleons. From then on, Yizhar signed his works with his pen name. He passed away in 2006.
1917: In Warsaw, “the third Delegates’ Conference of the Zionist Organization of Poland adopted a resolution favoring the recognition by the forthcoming International Conference of the right of Jews to create a Jewish national center in Palestine and” for Jews to enjoy “national autonomy in countries where they live in great numbers.”
1917: New York taxicab driver Abraham Groubtuck who became a bugler and battalion runner for Company K of the 308th and was posthumously awarded a Distinguished Service Cross, was drafted today
1917: In Odessa, female Jewish workers “employed at the post and telegraph offices resigned in protest again the antagonistic attitude of their colleagues.”
1917: In Fastov, Russia, accusations of the Blood Libel were revived when a Jewish shop keeper detained “a peasant woman on charges of theft.”
1917: In Vilna, the outbreak of typhus continued while many soup kitchens suspended operations because of a lack of supplies including a shortage of flour, potatoes and barley.
1918(22ndof Tishrei, 5679): Shemini Atzeret
1918(22ndof Tishrei, 5679): Keni Liptzin, star of the Yiddish Theatre who was most famous for playing the lead roles in two Jacob Gordin plays, Di shkhite and Mirele Efros, the former an attack on arranged marriage, the latter a story about an embittered matriarch who is finally reconciled again to her family, passed away today in New York
1918: As forces under Allenby continued to fight their through Palestine Ottoman forces surrendered to the Anzac Mounted Division today “rather than risk slaughter by Arab irregulars.”
1918: Birthdate of comedian and comedic actor Arnold Stang. Stang gained early fame on the Milton Berle Show. His voice would become famous to later television generations in several animated series.
1919: The Omaha Race Riot began today; an event for which the Omaha Bee, owned by Victor Rosewater, played a role because of its previous “sensationalized” reporting about attacks by black men
1919: In London, consecration of the Artillery Lane Synagogue.
1919: In Glasgow, “consecration of the new home of the Gertrude Jacobson Orphange.
1919: Opening of the Jewish Hospital in London.
1919: Birthdate of Prague native and jazz musician Fritz Weiss who would be forced to perform by the Nazis at the Theresienstadt concentration camp before being murdered at Auschwitz.
http://www.radio.cz/en/section/music/fritz-weiss-and-a-series-of-miraculous-wartime-jazz-recordings
1920(16thof Tishrei, 5681): Second Day of Sukkoth
1920: Rabbi I. Mortimer Bloom is scheduled to deliver a sermon “The Four Symbols” this moring at the Hebrew Tabernacle on Broadway.
1920: Funeral services for Jacob Schiff are scheduled to be held at 10 o’clock this morning at Temple Emanu-el
1921: In Vienna, “the former Rosa Zwim and David Hautzig, a bookbinder” gave birth to pianist and Holocaust survivor Walter Hautzig. (As reported by Sam Roberts)
1923(18thof Tishrei, 5684): Fourth Day of Sukkoth
1923: Birthdate of Naphtali Kupferberg who would gain fame as Tuli Kupferberg, a poet and singer who went from being a noted Beat to becoming, in his words, “the world’s oldest rock star” when he helped found the Fugs,
1924(29thof Elul, 5684): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1924: Birthdate of Yekutiel (Kuty or Sulic) Sapir, the Ukrainian native married to Mina Arison Sapir the mother of Micky and Shari Arison.
1924: Birthdate of Rudolf Barshai, an orchestral conductor who built a prominent career in the West after defecting from the Soviet Union in the 1970s.
1925(10thof Tishrei, 5686): Yom Kippur
1925: “George Hagedues, member of the Hungarian Parliament and president of Awakening Hungarians, an anti-Semitic organization who “who had just concluded a heated anti-Jewish address” …sank to the floor and died of a stroke” today.
1926: Birthdate of Mordechai “Mottie” Hod, the sabra from Degania who commanded the Israeli Air Force during the Six Day War in 1967. If you did not know he was a real person you would have thought he was created Ian Fleming or Tom Clancy.
1927(2ndof Tishrei, 5688): Rosh Hashanah II
1927: Josef “Yossele’ Rosenblatt led services today in a hall in Chicago.
1927: Dr David de Sola Pool, the rabbi of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue is scheduled to “broadcast a talk on ‘Jewish Education’ this evening at 8 o’clock over station WPCH.”
1928: Shortstop Jonah Goldman made his major league debut with the Cleveland Indians.
1929: Birthdate of General Mordechai “Mottie’ Hod, the commander of the Israeli Air Force during the Six Day War.
1930: “Soup to Nuts” a comedy written by Rube Goldberg, starring the comic trio that would become known as “The Three Stooges” was released today in the United States today by Fox Film Corporation.
1930(6thof Tishrei, 5691): Forty-five year old H. Artie Dreyfus, the Pine Bluff, AR born son of Isaac and Bertha Simon Dreyfus passed away today after which he was buried at the Congregation Anshe Emeth Cemetery in Pine Bluff.
1930(6thof Tishrei, 5691): Seventy-four year old Daniel Guggenheim, the son of Meyer Guggenheim, the father of Ambassador Harry F. Guggenheim and “a member of the firm of Meyer Guggenheim and Son passed away today
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F50D13FC3F55147A93CBAB1782D85F448385F9
1931(17thof Tishrei, 5692): Third Day of Sukkot
1931: “Who Take Love Seriously,” “a German romantic comedy with a script by Henry Koster and co-starring Otto Wallburg the WW I veteran who won the Iron Cross and who would be murdered at Auschwitz was released today in Germany.
1931: “The House of Connelly” starring Stella Adler, J. Edward Bromberg and Clifford Odets which was staged by Lee Strasberg opened at the Martin Beck Theatre.
1932: Birthdate of Sir Jeremy Issacs, the cousin of virologist Alick Isaacs, was a successful British television producer as well General Director of the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden.
1933: Birthdate of Madeleine May Kunin, a Swiss born American diplomat and politician. She was the Governor of Vermont from 1985 until 1991. She also served as United States Ambassador to Switzerland from 1996 to 1999. She was Vermont's first female governor as well as the first Jewish governor of Vermont. She was also the first Jewish woman to be elected governor of a U.S. state.
1933: Five days after he had passed away, the funeral was held today at Congregation Emanu-El for sixty year old New York native and publisher Sime Silverman, the son of Louis J. Silverman, the husband of Harriett Freeman, the father of Sidney Silverman, and grandfather of Syd Silverman who in 1905 founded Varietywhich became “the Bible” of American show business
1934: Birthdate of former Columbia University physics professor and co-founder of the Sudbury Daniel A. Greenberg.
1934: In Germany “Jews were virtually barred today from the business of distributing newspapers and periodicals under a rule adopted by the Newsdealers Association which no long admits them to membership.”
1935(1stof Tishrei, 5696): Rosh Hashanah
1935: The second Broadway run of “Awake and Sing” a play by Clifford Odets, directed by Harold Clurman with a cast that included Luther Adler, Stella Adler, Morris Carnovsky, John Garfield and Sanford Meisner came to an end today.
1936: As Germany’s economic situation worsened, Dr. Hjalmar Schact, the Economics Minister held a meeting with the Reichsbank president provided a review of the current currency situation but at which the Minister no announcement of currency devaluation would take place.
1936: In “Nazism Called Ungodly” published today Reverend Howard Chandler said “the Nazi regime in Germany is definitely anti-Christian because it legislates against Jews and thereby violation the fundamental principle of Chrisitinaity, the union of all men into one family under the Fatherhood of God.”
1937: Mussolini and Hitler gave speeches in front of 1,000,000 people in Berlin Italians would later try and portray themselves as victims after they had switched sides during World War II. The reality is that the Axis Alliance was seen by Hitler as a valuable tool in his plan to create a Third Reich that would be Jew-free.
1937(23rdof Tishrei, 5698): Simchat Torah
1937: It was reported today that John M. Schiff, the grandson of the late Jacob M. Schiff, will head the campaign to raise $250,000 for The Henry Street visiting Nurse Service. Schiff is a partner in Kuhn, Loeb & Co.
1937: The Benny Goodman Quarter recorded a rendition of Al Jolson’s Avalon.
1938: The Munich Conference is attended by French Premier Edouard Daladier, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, and Hitler. Climaxing the Allies' appeasement policy, France and Great Britain permit Germany to illegally annex the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia. Most of Europe breathes a sigh of relief because war is averted. Daladier, observing the huge crowds awaiting him at the Orly airport near Paris, fears that they will tear him apart for betraying France's Czech ally. After he lands, he is relieved when his people throw roses at him.
1938: The Czech representatives to the conference, who had been forced to wait helplessly in the corridor outside the conference hall, break down into sobs after hearing the news of the Allied concessions to Germany. Also at the conference, Chamberlain signs a Friendship Treaty with Germany without informing his French ally. Arriving home, he triumphantly holds this scrap of paper up to the crowd that surrounds his airplane and promises "peace in our time."
1939: Germany and the Soviet Union partitioned Poland. The result was a sudden mass expulsion of Jews during which thousands were robbed and hundreds murdered.
1939: In a cynical attempt to consolidate their partition of Poland and give France and Britain a chance to return to their previous policy of appeasement, Germany and the Soviet Union issued a statement saying that now that they have settled “the problems arising from the collapse of the Polish state” “it would serve the true interest of all peoples to put an end to the state of war existing at present between Germany and England and France.”
1939: The Nazis turned Przemsyl over to the Soviets after they had murdered 600 Jews living there.
1939: Warsaw surrenders to Nazi Germany during World War II. The Holocaust comes to the Polish capital. In the meantime, the French army, which could have attacked Germany on its western border thus providing real help to the Poles, remained, for all intents and purposes, inactive.
1939: The SS selects the start of the weeklong Jewish festival of Sukkoth to forcibly deport more than 8000 Jews from Pultusk, Poland.
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/september/03.asp
1939(15thof Tishrei, 5700): Sukkoth
1940(25thof Elul, 5700) Parashat Nitzavim-Vayeilech; Leil Selichot
1940; “In an effort to arouse public opinion over the plight of 500 Jewish refugees detained on the Danube at Ruse, Bulgaria, the American Friends of Jewish Palestine” today “made public a letter in which they called on members of Congress to urge the State Department to make representations to the Rumanian Government to allow them ‘to pass unmolested on their journey.’”
1941: In Chicago, Polish-Jewish immigrants Ruchla and Berek Zielonka gave birth University of Michigan graduate Shmuel Zielonka who gained fame as billionaire businessman Samuel “Sam” Zell.
1941(7th of Tishrei, 5702): The Massacre at Kamenets-Podolsk, in the Ukraine continued for its second and final day during which 23,000 Jews were killed.
1941: Start of the “first Heydrichiada,” the first declaration of martial in Czechoslovakia proclaimed by Reinhard Heydrich, the man chaired the conference that solidified “the Final Solution” which immediately claimed hundreds of victims
1942(17thof Tishrei, 5702): Chol Hamoed Sukkoth
1942(17thof Tishrei, 5702): Seventy-two year old Pilsen native “Dr. Herman Vogelstein, the former chief of the Liberal Synagogue in Breslau who life left Germany in 1938 and after having spent time in London arrived in New York in 1939 where he was “active in the New York Board of Ministers and Association of Reformed Rabbis” and who was the husband of “former Emmy Kosach” passed away today.
1942(17thof Tishrei, 5703): In another example of the mindless cruelty of the Nazis, 76 year old chemist Wilhelm Traube the great-grandson of a rabbi who actually was a member of the “Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union” died in a Berlin prison today
1942: In Breda Dutch chess player Salo (Salomon) Landau and his family were captured today as they tried to escape to Switzerland and were shipped to two different concentration camps.
1942: The Nazis activated a new train schedule that included the following daily direct transports: one train a day from Radom to Treblinka, one train a day from Cracow to Belzec, and one train a day would go from Lvov to Belzec. Each train would consist of 50 cars and carry 2,000 Jews. By November two more direct connections would be established: Lublin to Sobibor and Chlemno to Sobibor.
1943: After secretly making sure Sweden would receive Jewish refugees, Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz, a German diplomat, leaked word of the plans for the operation against Denmark's Jews to Hans Hedtoft, chairman of the Danish Social Democratic Party. Hedtoft contacted the Danish Resistance Movement and the head of the Jewish community, C.B. Henriques, who in turn alerted the acting chief rabbi, Dr. Marcus Melchior.
1943(28th of Elul, 5703): Todays marks the two-day slaughter of the Jews from the community from Split, Yugoslavia, the concentration camp in Sajmiste, Yugoslavia.
1943: Over a forty-eight hour period Roman Jews deliver 50 kilograms of gold to the Gestapo in Rome, as ordered. Pope Pius XII had offered to lend the Italian Jews 15 kilograms of gold if they could not collect the full amount themselves. In the end, it does not matter. The Germans lied, taking the gold and the Jews.
1943: A convoy of taxis and private cars pulled up to the Gestapo headquarters in Rome carrying the ransom of fifty kilograms in gold which was the payment demanded to avoid the deportation of two hundred Jews.
1943: The Last Nazi "Action taken" took place in Amsterdam. Two thousand Jews were deported. This meant that almost 110,000 Jews, which was 95% of Holland's former Jewish population, would not survive the war.
1944(11th of Tishrei, 5705): Boys deemed too short by Auschwitz's Dr. Josef Mengele are gassed.
1944: After a four month hiatus, the Nazis resume deportations from Theresienstadt, to Auschwitz. Among the 2499 prisoners deported on this day is teenager Petr Ginz, a Czech of Jewish background who was the guiding light behind Vedem (In the Lead), a secret "magazine" created and distributed throughout Theresienstadt. More than 1000 of these 2499 prisoners are gassed immediately.
1944(11th of Tishrei, 5705): One thousand of the 2,499 Jews sent to Birkenau from Theresienstadt were gassed.
1944: On his twenty-fifth birth jazz musician Fritz Weiss whose Ghetto Swingers were forced to appear in “the propaganda movie The Fuhrer Gives a City to the Jews” was murdered today at Auschwitz.
1944: German forces defeat British airborne troops at the Battle of Arnhem in the Netherlands. This marked the end of Operation Market Garden, Field Marshall Montgomery’s poorly planned, poorly executed “plan” to defeat Germany with a single “masterstroke.” This ego-manical mission meant fuel and supplies were defeated from Patton’s hard charging Third Army and that the war would be prolonged which of course meant more Jews perishing in the Holocaust.
1944: Soviet troops liberate Klooga Concentration in Kalooga, Estonia.
1945(21st of Tishrei, 5706): Hoshana Raba observed for the first time since the end of WW II.
1945: The International League for the Rights of Man announced today that it had sent a resolution called for the “unrestricted settlement of Jews in Palestine” to President Truman, Prime Minister Attlee and British Colonial Secretary Hall.
1946(3rdof Tishrei, 5707): Shabbat Shuva
1946: “Cloak and Dagger” a WW II thriller with a script co-authored by Albert Maltz, with music by Max Steiner and co-starring Lili Palmer (Lili Marie Peiser) was released today in the United States by Warner Brothers.
1946: Birthdate of rock star Helen Shapiro, the native London’s East End who was the granddaughter of Polish Jewish immigrants and the daughter piece-workers in the garment industry.
1947: Dora Meyerhardt was buried today in Jefferson City, MO.
1947:HUAC subpoenaed 24 "friendly" (some had previously testified during HUAC's closed sessions in L.A.) and 19 "unfriendly" witnesses (mostly Jewish), summoning them to Washington. The self-styled hunt for Communist, as can be seen from HUAC’s activities took a definite anti-Semitic tinge.
1948(24th of Elul, 5708): Seventy-two year old Kievan born, University of Chicago and Columbia educated engineer Dr. Louis Cohen, the inventor of numerous radio and cable devices including the Cohen Receiver who was the husband Ethel Cohen, with whom he had one daughter, passed away today in Bethesda, MD, a suburb of Washington, D.C.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1948/09/29/101518843.pdf
1949: “An Israeli delegate protested to the General Assembly's Social Committee today that "discriminatory" acts by the Egyptian Government had prevented an Israeli representative from attending a conference of the United Nations World Health Organization scheduled to be held in Alexandria last month.”
1949: It was reported today that “former Secretary of the Navy John L. Sullivan has accepted “the chairman of Brotherhood Week” which is sponsored by the Conference of Christians and Jews
1950: Too late for the opening ceremonies, but just in time for the start of the first day’s athletic competition, thirteen athletes and four officials fly in from the Netherlands to compete in the Maccabiah.
1950: Jewish athletes from around the world begin playing in the elimination rounds for soccer, tennis and basketball as the Maccabiah games get under way in stadiums in nine Israeli cities including Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Rehovoth and Petah Tikva.
1950: The movie version of “The Glass Menagerie” directed by Irving Rapper, produced by Jerry Wald, with music by Max Steiner and starring Kirk Douglas was released in the United States today.
1951:“Israel's waterfront, its only border now open to the rest of the world, is being rapidly improved to handle its increased shipping activity and expanding young merchant marine, Raphael Recanati, general manager here of the Israel-America Line,” said here today. Mr. Recanati spoke glowingly of the improvements that have been made at the Port of Haifa and plans to improve conditions at the underutilized facilities at Tel Aviv. He also reported that the Israel-America line will add another freighter to its fleet, bringing to eight, the number of vessels plying the waters between the east coast of the United and the ports of Haifa and Tel Aviv.
1952(9th of Tishrei, 5713): As the war drags on, the haunting tones of Kol Nidre take on an especially haunting sound for American GI’s in Korea.
1953(19th of Tishrei, 5714): Fifth Day of Sukkoth
1953: Joseph Jacob Cohen, the native of Byeloruissia named Yosef Kahan who was a teacher at Mins and a soldier in the Russian army before moving in 1903 to Philadelphia where he gained fame as an anarchist and author, passed away today in Washington D.C.
http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2019/01/yoysef-kahan-joseph-jacob-cohen.html
1952: Nineteen year old Susan Sontag and Philip Reif, the author of Freud: The Mind of the Moralist gave birth to “Princeton grad and Senior Editor at Farrar. Straus and Giroux” David Rieff.
1954(1st of Tishrei, 5715): Rosh Hashanah
1954(1st of Tishrei, 5715): Eighty-two year old Eva Drux, the widow of Solomon “Sol” Peyser and the mother of Philip Sylvan Peyser and Theodore Dux “Ted” Peyser passed away today after which she buried in the Hebrew Cemetery in Washington, DC.
1954: Birthdate of Jerry Stahl, author of Permanent Midnight, which was made into a movie starring Ben Stiller.
1955: The Brooklyn Dodgers, whose roster included Sandy Koufax, lost to the Yankees in the first game of the 1955 World Series.
1956(23rd of Tishrei, 5717): Simchat Torah
1956: An Israeli delegation headed by Golda Meir that included Moshe Dayan, Moshe Carmel and Shimon Peres left Lod airport for a secret trip to Paris, the purpose of which was to explore the possibility of coordinating an attack on Egypt,
1957(3rd of Tishrei, 5718): Shabbat Shuva
1958(14th of Tishrei, 5719): Erev Sukkoth
1958(14th of Tishrei, 5719): Seventy-one-year old Troy, NY born director and screenwriter Albert Herman passed away today in Los Angeles.
1959: In what is turning out to be a season for baseball miracles, Larry Sherry pitches the Dodgers past the Braves to take a one game lead in the National League playoff. Another victory will mean the Dodgers will make it to the World Series after having finished in 7th place in 1958.
1960: Warner Brothers released Dore Schary’s “Sunrise at Campobello”
1961: “Question 7” the winner of “the national Board of Review for Best Film,” directed by Stuart Rosenberg was released today in the United States.
1962(29th of Elul, 5722): Erev Rosh Hashana
1963(10th of Tishrei, 5724): Yom Kippur
1963(10th of Tishrei, 5724): Eighty-seven year old Cooper Union graduate and NYU trained attorney Morris Gintzler, the Hungarian born son Emil and Sally Gintzler, “the president of the Pulp and Paper Trading Company and the husband of Rose Gintzler with whom she had had two daughter – Selma and Dorothy passed away today.
1963: Whaam!, now considered Roy Lichtenstein's most important work, debuted at an exhibition held at the Leo Castelli Gallery that lasted until at October 24.
1964(22nd of Tishrei, 5725): Shmini Atzeret
1964(22nd of Tishrei, 5725): Harpo Marx passed away at the age of 75. One of the famed Marx Brothers, Harpo was the one who did not speak.
1966(14thof Tishrei, 5727): Erev Sukkoth
1966(14thof Tishrei, 5727: Sixty-six year old Julius Halpern, the son of Samuel and Rivka Halpern and the husband of Mary Halpern passed away today in his hometown of Buffalo, NY.
1968(6thof Tishrei, 5729): Shabbat Shuva
1968(6thof Tishrei, 5729): St. Louis native Cecilia R. Davidson, the representative of the National Council of Jewish Women who testified “at several Congressional hearings” where she identified Council’s members as “American citizens, many of them who can boast of ancestors who came” to the United States “before the Civil War,” said that one of the Council’s “major functions was to assist foreign-born women, girls, and children in becoming part of the American community” and “favored the Kerr-Coolidge Bill…so that the Council can really devote itself to the work of assimilation.”
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/razovsky-davidson-cecilia
1968: “After a run of 286 sparsely attended performances,” the curtain came down on the original Broadway production of “Happy Time” a musical with a book by N. Richard Nash (Nathan Richard Nusbaum) that won three Tony Awards.
1968: Birthdate of Tel Aviv native and award winning actress Asi Levi who combines her career with raising two daughters from her first marriage to Yaniv Kaufman
1970: Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of Egypt died. Nasser had come to power as a reformer in the 1950's. The Israelis had hoped that Nasser would make peace with the Jewish state. However, Nasser saw himself as Pan Arab leader who would unite the Arabs/Moslems in one unified entity from Morocco to Indonesia while driving the Western Imperialists from this domain. (Yes, Osama is not the first person to have this idea.) Nasser was committed to the destruction of Israel. He did not hate the West because of Israel. As he said, he hated Israel because it was of the West. Nasser was replaced by Sadat who made history with his trip to Jerusalem and the Camp David Accords.
1971(9thof Tishrei, 5732): Erev Yom Kippur; Kol Nidre
1971: “The Last Movie” with a script by Stewart Stern and co-starring Henry Jaglom was released in the United States today by Universal Pictures.
1973(2ndof Tishrei, 5734): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1973(2ndof Tishrei, 5734): Forty-two year old Norma Crane (Norma Anna Bella Zuckerman) the actress who played the role of “Golde” in the film version of “Fiddler on the Roof” passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1973/09/29/archives/norma-crane-dead-played-tevyes-wife.html
1973: In St. Johnsbury, VT, Congregation Beth-El celebrated the Bat Mitzvah of Amy Aronoff, daughter of Gene and Sheila. It was the first Bat Mitzvah to be held at the temple.
1973: Three Jewish immigrants from Russia were taken hostage while traveling on a train heading to Vienna after which they would be released when the Austrian Government promised to close the transit camp at Schonau for Russian immigrants en route to Israel. (“The 2 Palestinian terrorists arrested by the Austrians were released and flown to an Arab country.”)
1974: “Steam Heat” “show tune from the 1954 Broadway musical ‘The Pajama Game,’ written by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross was performed by the Pointer Sisters tonight on prime time television because it had become their signature song.
1975(23rdof Tishrei, 5736): Simchat Torah
1975: “Jewish activists in Kiev were not allowed to attend the Babi Yar commemoration ceremony on the 34th anniversary of the Nazi massacre of Jews
1975: Birthdate of Ukrainian born, American gold medal winning swimmer, Lenny Krayzelburg.
1976: “One Day At A Time” starring Bonnie Franklin began its second season.
1978: The Israeli Knesset endorsed Camp David Accord moving Egypt and Israel one step closer to a peace treaty that has held for over a quarter of a century.
1979: “Time After Time” directed by Nicholas Meyer who also wrote the screenplay was released today in the United States.
1981: In St. Johnsbury, Vermont, Congregation Beth-El, held its first services in its new building.
1982: Today the Israeli government established the Kahan Commission which “four months later found Israel to be indirectly responsible for the massacres, and recommended Ariel Sharon's resignation.”
1982(11thof Tishrei, 5743): Eighty-one year old actress Mabel Albertson the older sister of actor Jack Albertson who may be best known for playing “the interfering mother” on the sitcom “Bewitched” passed away today.
1983: U.S. premiere of “The Big Chill” directed by Lawrence Kasdan who co-authored the script.
1984(2ndof Tishrei, 5745): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1984: “The Wild Life” a comedy co-starring Rick Moranis was released today in the United States by Universal Pictures.
1984: “Incredible Differences” a comedy produced by Nancy Meyers who co-authored the script and co-starring Allen Garfield was released today in the United States by Warner Bros.
1985(13thof Tishrei, 5746): Ninety-one year old Hungarian born American photographer Andre Kertesz passed away today. (As reported by John Durniak)
http://www.nytimes.com/1985/09/30/arts/andre-kertesz-91-pioneer-in-photography-dies.html
https://www.iphotocentral.com/showcase/showcase-view.php/24/0/34/1/1/0
1986: “What Strangers? What Gates?” published today provides Roland Sanders description of current conditions between Israelis and Arabs.
1988: The funeral of Paul Cowan is scheduled to take place today at 9 A.M. at Ansche Chesed synagogue, at West End Avenue and 100th Street.
1990: U.S. premiere of “Pacific Heights” directed by John Schlesinger.
1992(1stof Tishrei, 5753): The Orthodox synagogue in Little Rock, AR is filled with a throng of extra attendees – Jewish Clinton campaign workers celebrating Rosh Hashanah
1992(1stof Tishrei, 5753): Ninety year old Ephraim “Effie” Caplan, the son of Ada and Yitzi Fievel Caplan and the husband of Dora Caplan passed away today in Glasgow, Scotland.
1993: Outfielder Shawn Green made his major league debut with the Toronto Blue Jays.
1994(23rdof Tishrei, 5755): Simchat Torah
1994(23rdof Tishrei, 5755): Seventy-eight year old Canadian born film-maker Harry Saltzman who “produced early James Bond Films like ‘Dr. No’ and ‘Goldfinger’ passed away today in France.
https://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/29/obituaries/harry-saltzman-78-bond-film-producer.html
1995: In “Negotiators, Arab and Israeli, Built Friendship From Mistrust” Serge Schmemann reported from Jerusalem today that “There was a moment in the final, crisis-ridden hours of the negotiations on the West Bank that brought home to the heads of both the Israeli and the Arab teams what they had really achieved in their long months together.”
1997: In a review entitled “The Return of the Schlemiel,” William Goodman examines The Complete Stories by Bernard Malamud whose “magic barrel overflows with schnorrers and schleppers, hustlers and gulls, down-at-the-heel rabbis and down-in the mouth students…”
1997: The New York Times book section included reviews by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest including Kirk Douglas's Climbing the Mountain: My Search for Meaning' an extension of his 1988 best-selling autobiography, The Ragman's Son
1998: Today “Boris Fyodorov was discharged from the position of the Head of the State Tax Service.
1999(18thof Tishrei, 5760): Fourth day of Sukkoth
1999(18thof Tishrei, 5760): Seventy-nine year old Harry Rabin, the Chicago born son of Miriam and Isidore Rabinowitz and the husband of “Libbie (Lee) Rabin” passed away today in Palm Beach after which he was buried in Arlington Heights, Illinois.
2000: Ariel Sharon and an escort of over 1,000 Israeli police officers visited the Temple Mount complex, site of the Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa Mosque, the holiest place in the world to Jews and the third holiest site in Islam
2000: In “At Home With Mel and Patricia Ziegler” published today Peter Hellman described the latest business for the founders of the Banana Republic.
2000: Al Aqsa Intifada began. While there are those who claim that the violence was a spontaneous response of Ariel Sharon to the Temple Mount, the reality differs from what might politely be called an Urban Myth. The Al Aqsa Intifada was the orchestrated response of Arafat to the Camp David proposals of Ehud Barak and backed by President Clinton. Arab history is replete with using violence as a response to diplomatic negotiations.
2001: “Zoolander” a comedy produced by Scott Rudin and co-starring Jerry Stiller was released today in the United States by Paramount Pictures.
2002(22nd of Tishrei, 5763) Shabbat and Shmini Atzeret
2002Israeli officials acknowledged today that a helicopter strike in Gaza City on Thursday had failed to kill its target, Muhammad Deif a bomb-maker for the militant group Hamas who has been on Israel's wanted list for a decade.
2003(2ndof Tishrei, 5764): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
2003(2ndof Tishrei, 5764): Marshall N. Rosenbluth, a pioneer in unleashing and taming nuclear fusion, the force that powers the sun and stars, passed away at the age of 76. (As reported by William J. Broad)
2003:The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest includingAct of Creation: The Founding of the United Nations: A Story of Superpowers, Secret Agents, Wartime Allies and Enemies, and Their Quest for a Peaceful Worldby Stephen C. Schlesinger and Real Jews :Secular vs. Ultra-Orthodox and the Struggle for Jewish Identity in Israelby Noah J. Efron
2004: George Soros “dedicated more money to the campaign and kicked off his own multi-state tour with a speech: Why We Must Not Re-elect President Bush delivered at the National Press Club in Washington.”
2005(24th of Elul, 5765): Ninety-seven year old Leo Henryk Sternbach, the chemist who created Valium passed away today. (As reported by Jeremy Pearce)
2005: After premiering at Sundance, “Forty Shades of Blue” directed by Ira Sachs, who co-authored the screenplay was released today in the United States.
2005: The Jerusalem Post reported two major archeological finds. First and foremost was a First-Temple period seal discovered amidst piles of rubble from Jerusalem's Temple Mount, The small - less than 1 cm - seal impression, or bulla, was discovered by Bar-Ilan University archaeologist Dr. Gabriel Barkay amidst piles of rubble from the Temple Mount This marks the first time that an written artifact was found from the Temple Mount dating back to the First Temple period. The 2,600 year old artifact, with three lines in ancient Hebrew, was discovered amidst piles of rubble discarded by the Islamic Wakf that Barkay and a team of young archaeologists and volunteers are sifting through on the grounds of a Jerusalem national park. The seal, which predates the destruction of the First Jewish temple in 586 BCE, was presented Tuesday night, September 27, to the press at an archaeological conference at the City of David sponsored by the right-wing Elad organization. Barkay said that the find was the first of its kind from the time of King David. He has not yet determined what the writing is on the seal, although three Hebrew letters -- thought to be the name of its owner -- are visible on one of its line.
The seal was found amidst thousands of tons of rubble discarded by Wakf officials at city garbage dumps six years ago, following the Islamic Trust's unilateral construction of an mosque at an underground compound of the Temple Mount known as the Solomon's Stables. Secondly, in a separate major archaeological development in Jerusalem, a Jewish ritual bath, or mikva, dating back to the Second Temple period, and a First Temple Wall have been found in an underground chamber adjacent to the Western Wall tunnels. The announcement came from Jon, Seligman, Jerusalem regional archaeologist for the Antiquities Authority'.
2006(6thof Tishrei, 5767): In St. Louis, MO, Rabbi Maurice Lyons, the husband of Bernice Lyons Z”L and the father of Simcha and Tiki passed away today after which he will be buried in Jerusalem.
2006: A state memorial ceremony is held at Babi Yar, near the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, where German and Ukrainian soldiers and policemen carried out the mass murder.
2006: According to a report published today there has been a ten per cent increase in the numbers of Jewish students at Vanderbilt University.
2007: Former Chief Rabbi Avraham Elkana Shapira, the 94-year-old spiritual giant of religious Zionism, who passed away yesterday morning after a sudden deterioration in his medical condition will be buried today with the burial procession, which is expected to draw tens of thousands, slated to leave Harav Yeshiva at 10:30 a.m.
2007(16th of Tishrei, 5768): Second Day of Sukkoth
2007: “The International Monetary Fund's 24 executive directors selected Dominque Strauss-Kahn as the new managing director
2007: The Archivist of the United States presented to Congress, the Administration, and the American people the final report of the Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group (IWG) on which Elizabeth Holtzman served as a public member.
2007: In Patterson, NJ. Barnet Hospital which was named in honor of Jewish philanthropist and former mayor Nathan Barnet, was scheduled to close after having sought protection in Chapter 11 in August.
2007: The "Save Our Simon" project raised 1.2 million dollars to be used in the preservation of the Simon Theatre in Brenham, Texas. The Simon Theatre was built by Alex Simon, a member of the Simon family of Brenham, Texas, a family known for its business acumen and civic mindedness.
2008(28th of Elul, 5768): Aaron Katz, who for more than 50 years publicly sought the exoneration of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg passed away today at the age of 92.
2008:The Center for Jewish History presents "Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie” The 20th Anniversary Presentation.“This fall marks the 20th anniversary of the release of the Academy-Award-winning documentary directed by Marcel Ophuls about the notorious "Butcher of Lyons." John S. Friedman, producer of the film, Dr. David Marwell, director, Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the Holocaust and chief of investigative research for the Department of Justice during the hunt for Barbie, and Stuart Klawans, film critic of The Nation, will provide an introduction.’
2008: The New York Times reviewed books by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest including Hurry Down Sunshine by Michael Greenberg, Fallen Giants’ History of Himalayan Mountaineering From the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes, co-authored by Maurice Isserman and The King and the Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt and Edward the Seventh, Secret Partners by David Fromkin
2008: The Washington Post reviewed books by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest including American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, Movie-Making, and the Crime of the Centuryby Howard Blum and The Other Side of the Island by Allegra Goodman
2008: Yefim Bronfman performed with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra.
2009 (10 Tishrei, 5770): Yom Kippur
2009: This morning, on Yom Kippur, Palestinian militants opened fire at IDF troops patrolling the border fence between Israel and Gaza.
2009: Iranian Revolutionary Guards are scheduled to test-fire a missile on today that defense analysts have said could hit Israel and U.S. bases in the Gulf region. Israel is especially sensitive to military action on Yom Kippur given what happened in 1973
2009: In Lexington, Mississippi, recitation of the Nei’lah services marks the final scheduled worship service at the 104 year old white wooden synagogue that is the home of Temple Beth el. While this may be a bitter-sweet moment for the members of this Jewish community that has existed since the 1830’s, their accomplishment of keeping the light lit for almost two centuries is a challenge to us all. A congregation like this thrives not because of a large staff of paid professionals; it thrives because of the devoted participation of each congregant.
2010: The Center for Jewish History in New York is scheduled to present a program entitled “Communism on Trial: Jewish Politics and the Slansky Affair.”
2010: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or or special interest to Jewish readers including “Washington: A Life” by Ron Chernow and “Poisoning the Press: Richard Nixon, Jack Andrson, and the Rise of Washington’s Scandal Culture” by Mark Feldstein
2010(28thof Tishrei, 5771): Eighty-eight year old cinema director and producer Arthur Penn passed away today.
http://www.legacy.com/NS/Obituary.aspx?pid=145718568
2010(28thof Tishrei, 5771): Ninety-two year old Aaron Katz, who publicly and actively proclaimed the innocence of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg passed away today. (As reported by Dennis Hevesi)
http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/10/06/nyregion/06katz.html?ref=juliusrosenberg&pagewanted=all
2010: Alan G. Hevesi, the former state comptroller, is poised to plead guilty to a felony corruption charge after a lengthy investigation into his office’s rewarding of pension investment business to firms that provided financial benefits to Mr. Hevesi and his aides, people with knowledge of the case said today
2010: It was reported today that Dr. Eli Landuah has published “The White Book,” the first pork cookbook written for the Israeli market.
2011: The Tel Aviv District Labor Court ruled this afternoon that railway workers must return to negotiations with Israel Railways over plans to purchase new train cars from an external company, Bombardier, and outsource maintenance of those cars to that company.
2011: Today The United States sought to press its wary allies in Egypt's army leadership to bolster ties with Israel and stick to scheduled elections later this year, even though a new set of leaders much less friendly to the US and the Jewish state may be the winners.
2011: Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr said today that Israel and the Palestinians should resume talks with clear terms of reference and clear timeline.
2011(29th of Elul, 5771): Erev Rosh Hashanah
שנה טובה, כתיבה וחתימה טובה.
2012: “Jews From Algeria” is scheduled to open at the Musee d’art et d’histoire du Judaisme in Paris, France.
2012: David Fisher’s “Six Million and One” is scheduled to be shown for the first time at Lincoln Plaza Cinema in New York City.
2012: An explosion struck a Jewish community building in the southern Swedish city of Malmö early this morning, Swedish media reported. The blast caused no injuries. “There has been an explosion. Something has detonated – we are certain of that,” police officer Erik Liljenström said to local paper Sydsvenskan.
2012(12thof Tishrei, 5773): Eighty-five year old Avraham Adan, the Israeli General who commanded the 162nd Division which valiantly tried to stave off the advances of the Egyptians during the first days of the Yom Kippur War, passed away today.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4286715,00.html
2012: Jordan has appointed a new ambassador to Israel over two years after the previous envoy returned from Tel Aviv to Amman, a senior Jordanian official told AFP and Ammon News today.
2012(12thof Tishrei, 5773): Eighty year old advertising executive Stephen Frankfurt passed away today.
2013: In Spain, the towns of San Juan and Rio Jerte are scheduled to open a “Judaica festival featuring a mock wedding to celebrate their lost Jewish Heritage.”
2013: “In The Dark Room” a creation of Israeli filmmaker Nadav Schirman is scheduled to be shown as the New York Film Festival opens for its 50th year.
2013(24thof Tishrei, 5774): On Shabbat all over the world, Jews begin the Torah cycle again with “Bereshit.” Am Yisroel Chai
2013: No tickets are available for tonight’s showing of “Fill the Void” at the 17thannual Jewish Film Festival in Dallas
2013: “Three Israel Air Force jets were scrambled today to intercept unidentified aerial objects amid suspicion these were unmanned drones that penetrated Israeli airspace.”
2014: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Faithful and Virtuous Night by Louise Glück, The Undertaking by Audrey Magee, Consumed by David Cronenberg and The Shifts and the Shocks: What We’ve Learned ---and Have Still to Learn – From the Financial Crisis by Martin Wolf
2014: Israeli filmmaker Nadav Schirman is scheduled to make a personal appearance at the New York Film Festival.
2014: The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education a Next Generations Get-Together which will help train those who will be speaking about the Holocaust.
2014(4thof Tishrei, 5775): T’zom Gedaliah observed
2014(4thof Tishrei, 5775): Ninety-one Welsh poet Dannie Abse passed away today.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11126588/Dannie-Abse-obituary.html
http://literature.britishcouncil.org/dannie-abse
2014(4thof Tishrei, 5775): Forty year old actress Sarah Goldberg passed away today.
2014: Prime Minister Netanyahu flew out of Ben-Gurion Airport today as he made his way to New York where he will address the UN General Assembly tomorrow.
2014: “A terrorist from Gaza, armed with a knife and spike, was caught today by the Security Coordinator of Moshav Shokeda, not far from the religious agricultural community, in the Sdot Negev Regional Council.” (As reported by Uzi Baruch and Gil Ronen)
2014: “Israeli archaeologists recently dug up an ancient subterranean structure, parts of which date back to Roman times, just meters from the Temple Mount, Channel 10 reported today.
2015(15thof Tishrei, 5776): Sukkoth
2015: As of today, Square Enix should effectively own Taito, the company “founded in 1953 by Russian Jewish businessman Michael Kogan.
2015: In Jerusalem, a central Sukkah at Safra Square which in the past has attracted as many 100,000 visitors is scheduled “to be open for public use” starting today.
2015: “Relative calms was restored to the Temple Mount” this afternoon “after a morning of clashes between Israeli security forces with Palestinian rioters” who “barricaded themselves inside the al-Agsa Mosque” while “hurling rocks, firebombs and firecrackers…”
2016: “It Not About Ebisu” based on the work by Wendy Sandler, linguistic professor at the University of Haifa and directed by Atay Citron an associate professor in the theatre department at University of Haifa is scheduled to be performed at the Panera Theatre.
2016: “The world awoke” today “to an actuality it had never known before: a modern state of Israel without Shimon Peres.”
2016: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled to livestream “a discussion about Denial, a new film describing Deborah E. Lipstadt’s courtroom battle against notorious Holocaust denier David Irving” who “in 1996 sued Lipstadt for libel in a British court.”
https://www.ushmm.org/online/calendar/eventDetails.php?event=MADENIALFILM0916
2016(25thof Elul, 5776): Ninety three year old Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres Shimon Peres, “one of the last surviving pillars of Israel’s founding generation” passed away on Wednesday in Israel. Baruch dayan ha’emet. Blessed is the perfect judge.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/28/shimon-peres-former-israeli-leader-dies
2017: In London, JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “The Exception” a WW II film about a Nazi officer sent to protect the exiled Kaiser.
2017: Two residents of the Arab Israeli town of Umm al-Fahm, one of whom was 26 year old Sa’id Ghasoube Mahmoud Jabarin were charged today with planning to carry out a shooting attack on the Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem, similar to the one that took place in July.
2018: In Cedar Rapids, IA, the “Homecoming Showcase Concert” under the direction of College Band Director William S. Carson, the leading musician in the Jewish Community, is scheduled to take place this evening
2018: During a “violent event orchestrated by Hamas,” today “20,000 Palestinian rioters and terrorists swarmed Israel’s border with Gaza, ripping down the security fence, burning tires and hurling over 100 bombs and grenades into Israeli territory…”
2018: Today, Mark Zukerberg’s Facebook said “said that an attack on its computer network had exposed the personal information of nearly 50 million users” making this breach “the largest in the company’s history.”
2018: The 92nd Street Y is scheduled to host an evening with Karl Ove Knausgaard who “will answer questions about the sixth and last installment of his autobiographical series “My Struggle,” which has received acclaim and scrutiny for its no-holds-barred honesty in depicting his relationships.”
2018(19thof Tishrei, 5779): Chol Ha Moed Sukkoth
2018(19thof Tishrei, 5779): Seventy-two year old Tel Aviv born attorney Rachel Hirschfeld who combined a passion for animal rights with the skills to successfully producer “on and off Broadway productions” passed away today.
2019(28thElul, 5779): Parashat Nitzavim – Final Shabbat of 5779
2019: In San Jose, CA, the Children’s Discovery Museum is scheduled to host “Jew Year’s Eve, a
“Rosh Hashanah event for young adults with themed drinks, food and dancing.”
2019: Tonight, in Jerusalem, Nuctorno Live is scheduled to host a concert starring Alma Zohar, “one of the most notable artists of recent years.
2019: In Oakland, CA, Danille Legesse and Morgan Julia are scheduled to hose “Ethiopax Cooking Class” where participants will learn “how to make three organic dishes for the High Holidays.”
2019: In London, “The Jewish Museum and the Vagina Museum” are scheduled to join forces to present a night dedicated to vaginas, vulvas and the gynecological anatomy.”
2020(10thof Tishrei, 5781): Yom Kippur
2020(10thof Tishrei, 5781): Ninety year old Phi Beta Kappa CUNY graduate Maynard Elliot Solomon, the co-founder of Vanguard Records passed away today.
2020: Temple Israel of Boston is scheduled to present from its virtual sanctuary “a traditional and majestic Yom Kippur Serve.”
2020: After a full day of services, this evening Highgate Synagogue is scheduled to host online a Shofar and Havdalah service for the entire community starting at 7:40 pm, London time.
2021: Chabad of Fremont’s Jewish Women’s Circle is scheduled to resent a buffet and intimate concert for Havdalah for women with music by singer-songwriter Ilana Herst.
2021: Urban Adamah, Kehilla synagogue, Aquarian Minyan, Beyt Tikkun and Chochmat HaLev are scheduled to present “Dancing in Shmita: A Simchat Torah Bash” which is a multigenerational celebration with music by a klezmer band.
2021: Congregation Or Atid is scheduled to present a “Torah Scavenger Hunt,” a search through the unrolled Torah Scrolls with Rabbi Polisson
2021: The American Dance Festival is scheduled to present the first screen of “Outside,” a film by Israeli writer Etgar Keret and Israeli choreographer Inbal Pinto.
2021: This evening, in Cedar Rapids, the Hadassah Book Club is scheduled to discuss Milk Fed by Melissa Broder either over zoom or in person.
2021(22nd of Tishrei, 5782): Shemini Atzeret; in the evening Simchat Torah celebration
2022(3rd of Tishrei, 5783): Tzom Gedaliah; Fast of Gedaliah
2022: The LBI Book Club is scheduled to present a discussion of When Time Stopped by Ariana Neumann
2022: The Lappin Foundation is scheduled to present “Danvers Stands Against Antisemitism,” with participants joining “the march against antisemitism with the Town of Danvers to take back the bridge that the neo-Nazis tarnished with their antisemitic message of hate last week.”
2022: The McMullen Museum is scheduled to present a conversation among Françoise Mouly, Art Spiegelman, and co-curator of the exhibition “American Alternative Comics, 1980–2000: Raw, Weirdo, and Beyond,” John McCoy.