January 7
1256: Berechiah De Nicole, the Chief Rabbi of Lincoln was released after having been imprisoned in London on charges related to the death of “Little Hugh of Lincoln.” The son of Rabbi Moses ben Yom Tov of London, Reb Berechiah was an English Tosafist who was considered an authority on ritual matters. “He decided that the evening prayer might be said an hour and a quarter before the legal time of night…and declared that nuts prepared by Gentiles might not be eaten by Jews.” In August, 1255, the body of gentile boy named Hugh was found in Lincoln (a town called Nicole in Norman-French). This discovery gave rise to charges of ritual murder for which all the Jews of Lincoln were seized and imprisoned in Lincoln. Berechiah reportedly some time during 1256, but the exact date and cause are unknown.
1325: King Dinis I of Portugal who resisted pressure from the clergy to apply the anti-Semitic restrictions of the Fourth Council of the Lateran and “maintained a conciliatory position” regarding his Jewish subjects passed away today. During the reign of King Dinis, Alfonso’s father, the clergy invoked the restrictions of the Fourth Lateran Council in an attempt to get the monarch to restrict the role of Jews in Portuguese society. . The clergy, however, invoking the restrictions of the Fourth Council of the Lateran, brought considerable pressure to bear against the Jews during the reign of King Dinis I of Portugal, but the monarch maintained a conciliatory position. Alfonso remained faithful to his father’s policies
1325: Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal. During the early 14th century, more than 200,000 Jews lived in Portugal, which was about 20 percent of the total population. This period was part of what is known as “Portugal’s Golden Age of Discovery, in which Jews made a major contribution to Portugal’s success.” The position of the Jews of Portugal did not begin to deteriorate until the last decades of the 14thcentury as can be seen by the decree of King Joao I forcing Jews to wear special clothing and obey a special curfew.
1328: Before Louis the Bavarian entered Rome today the citizens had to pay a levy of 30,000 gold florins of which the Jews paid one third.
1502: Birthdate of Pope Gregory VIII, famed for the creation of the Gregorian calendar, a method of tracking time has had a unique impact on Jewish historians trying to match events that occurred before 1752 (5512) on the Jewish calendar with the civil calendar.
1516: Representatives of several towns including Frankfort and Worms attended a Diet at Frankfort to discuss how the Jews might be banished and never allowed to return.
1536: Catherine of Aragon, the wife of King Henry VIII of England, passed away. She was the daughter of the two monarchs who created the Spanish Inquisition and drove the Jews out of Spain. The Spanish monarchs would consent to their daughter’s marriage if Henry’s father would promise that no Jews would ever live in England. Ironically, it was Catherine’s inability to provide a male heir that led to the England’s break with the Catholic Church which would play in an indirect positive role in the return of the Jews to England.
1566: Pius V. the Pope, who expelled the Jews from Imola, began his papacy today. Among those expelled was Gedaliah ibn Yahya ben Joseph the Talmudist and author of the Sefer Shalshelet ha-Ḳabbalah, also known as Sefer Yaḥya
1601: An entry made today into the Stationer’s Register assigns Marlowe’s “Doctor Faustus” a play which oddly enough contains a posthumous reference to Rodrigo Lopez the Marrano physician who was hung after being convicted of treason, to the bookseller and publisher Thomas Bushnell
1761: Birthdate of German native Feis Moses Fraenkel, the son of Moses Feis Fraenkel and husband Kehla Fraenkel with whom he had five children.
1625: Ferdinand II issued decree of general expulsion that the Jews of Vienna were able to prevent from being carried out.
1768: Birthdate of Joseph Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon Bonaparte who as King of Spain abolished the Inquisition.
1768 Lord Bessborough wrote to the Duke of Bedford: Jewish financier Sampson Gideon wants a seat, he has a great deal of money and suggested that Gideon might be a suitable purchaser of the Duke’s Hampshire estates.
1775: For the second time in two months, Empress Maria Theresa banished all the Jews of Bohemia and Moravia
1780: In Bavaria, Kalman Heller and his wife gave birth to Isaac Heller, the husband of Leah Mandelbaum with whom he had ten children.
1789: In the first true test of the workability of the Constitution “voters cast ballots to choose state electors” in the first presidential election which would bring George Washington, who expressed his support for Jews as citizens to the position of the U.S.’s first Chief Executive.
1792: Birthdate of Enrico Marconi, the non-Jewish Italian architect who designed the Great Synagogue in Lomza, Poland which “was built on the initiative of Rabbi Eliezer-Simcha Rabinowicz “and destroyed by the Nazis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Synagogue,_%C5%81om%C5%BCa#/media/File:LomzaSynagogue.jpg
1795: Birthdate of Bavarian native Abraham Baum, the husband of Hannah Hamel Straus and the father of Helena Baum.
1799(1st of Shevat, 5559) Rosh Chodesh Shevat
1799: On the same day the Jews observed Rosh Chodesh, Thomas Jefferson wrote to his political ally Aaron Burr describing the Adam’s administration to create “a great naval power by building 12 ships of 74. guns, 12 frigates and from 25 to 30 smaller vessels, say a fleet of 50. ships. the first cost 10. millions of Doll. the annual expenses between 5. & 6 millions. thus our navy alone will cost us annually 1 ½ Dollars a head besides the first cost. add the army, civil list, & interest of the debt, and estimate the amount”
1800(10th of Tevet, 5560): Asara B’Tevet.
1800: Birthdate of Mortiz Daniel Oppenheim whose paintings included portraits of several notables including Moses Mendelssohn and “The Return of the Jewish Volunteer from the Wars of Liberation to His Family Still Living According to Old Customs”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Heimkehr_(Oppenheim).jpg
1800: Birthdate of President Millard Fillmore. In 1850, the American Minister to
1824: Aaron ben Yehuda married Rechela bat Naphtali Hirtz today at the New Synagogue.
1829: Miriam Simha and David Isaac Belasco were wed today at Bevis Marks
1834: In Canterbury, Mary Lazarus and David Nathan gave birth to Henry Nathan
1835: Levy Jacobs married Caroline Davis at the Great Synagogue today.
1841: Birthdate of Israel Levy, the German-Jewish scholar whose first publication was Ueber Einige Fragmente aus der Mischna des Abba Saul
1842: Today, in London, “there was a lively report of the first meeting of the friend of ‘Hebrew College’ including a long quotation from Mr. Joseph Mitchell who would one day emerge as” the proprietor of the Jewish Chronicle.
1843: The first Jewish service was held at the Wellington Hebrew Congregation in Wellington, New Zealand under the leadership of Abraham Ort. There had been Jewish people in New Zealand from the beginnings of European settlement in the north. Jewish traders from England, including John Montefiore, Joel Polack and David Nathan, were active starting in the 1830’s. Jews were on the first ships to arrive in Wellington. A Jewish community was founded in 1843 with the arrival from London of Abraham Hort after he and his family arrived aboard the Prince of Wales.
1848: The Noah Benevolent Widows and Orphans’ Association was formed today. A fraternal and benevolent order formed by German Jews “who had fled to” the United States “during the German revolution,” it was first led my Mordecai Noah, a former Sheriff of New York.
1849: Birthdate of Bavarian native Solomon Weil, the husband of Sarah Einstein Weil with whom he had three children – Edna, Lionel and Helene
1857: Rebecca Miller married Benjamin Moses Levy today at Bevis Marks.
1857(11th of Tevet, 5617): Seventy-five year Sampson Simson, Jr. the native of Danbury CT who was partners in the firm on Simon’s in Stone Street which “imported beaver coating and other articles” passed away today.
1858: Birthdate of Eliëzer Ben-Yehuda. Born Eliezer Yitzhak Perelman, in what is now Lithuania; Ben-Yehuda was the father of Modern Hebrew. Ben-Yehuda adopted several plans of action to accomplish his goal. The main ones were three-fold, and they can be summarized as “Hebrew in the Home,” “Hebrew in the School,” and “Words, Words, Words.” By the time he died in 1922, Ben-Yehuda had almost singled-handedly transformed a “dead Biblical language” into a modern language that embodied the spirit of Zionism and the modern Jewish world.
1860(12th of Tevet, 5620): Parashat Vayehci
1860: On the same day that Jews read the first sedrah following the celebration of the secular New Year “The Story of the Sewing Machine” which told the tale of an invention that would be used by so many immigrant Jews on the Lower East Side was published today.
1860:Solomon F. Joseph of the Portuguese Hebrew Society was chosen as one of the Directors of the Board of Deputies of Benevolent and Emigrant Societies at the organizations meeting held tonight at Cooper Institute in New York City.
1861: Three days after he had passed away, 61 year old John Nathan, the husband of Esther Nathan with whom he had had eleven children, was buried today at the “West Ham Jewish Cemetery.”
1861: Birthdate of Baltimore resident of Adolf Guttmacher, the husband of Laura Oppenheimer Guttmacher and the father Dorothy and Alan Guttmacher.
1863: Ohio Congressman George H. Pendleton introduced a resolution before the U.S. House of Representatives condemning General Order No. 11. Pendleton was “a Peace Democrat” so his resolution was more a reflection of his anti-war sentiments than of any great concern about the well-being of the Jews.
1865(9th of Tevet, 5625):Lazarus Simon Magnus Esq the beloved and only son of Simon Magnus of Chatham passed away today at the age of 40. He was buried at the Chatham (Kent) Jewish Cemetery
1865: Lazarus Magnus “developed a toothache. Despite an invitation from his brother-in-law to stay with him and his family Lazarus went back to his offices in London Bridge. He exchanged greetings with the housekeeper and asked her about the best remedy to the problem. The housekeeper suggested some laudanum on a piece of lint, but Magnus replied: “That is no use. I will try chloroform.” Unfortunately, this was a fatal mistake, that cost him his life - he died from inhaling too much of it.” Born in Chatham in 1826, he was a successful British businessman, leader of the Jewish community and Mayor of Queenborough.
1865(9th of Tevet, 5625): Parashat Vayigash
1865(9th of Tevet, 5625): Philadelphian Elia Leon Hyneman who had been serving with the Union Army since July of 1861 and who was “captured during a cavalry raid around Petersburg, VA in June of 1864 died today at the infamous Andersonville Prison.
1867: In London, Herman Klein, a native of Riga and foreign language teacher and the former Adelaide Soman, a dance teacher gave birth to American “playwright and actor” Charles Klein, the brother of violinist Max Klein, composer Manuel Klein, and music critic Herman Klein, the husband New Yorker Lillian Gottlieb with whom he had two sons, “screenwriter and producer” Philip Klein and John Klein and close associate of Ohio born Jewish theatrical producer Charles Frohman.
1868: Birthdate of Abraham M "Mark" Lidzbarski. Born in
1872: In Greenville, AL, Henrietta and Louis Bear gave birth to Military Academy of Stanton, VA and Pensacola, FL wholesale grocer Max Lee Bear, the husband of Bella Rosenau with whom he had three daughters – Leonia, Elise and Maxine - and the President of Congregation Beth EL.
1873: Birthdate of Charles Pierre Péguy a Roman Catholic, a socialist and journalist who was a Dreyfusard (supporter of Dreyfus)
1873: Birthdate of Austro-Hungarian native “Adolf Zuckery” who gained fame as Adolph Zukor, the American entrepreneur who built the
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/pickford-adolph-zukor-1873-1976/
1875: Birthdate of Prussian native Gustav Felix Flatow the gymnast who “who competed at the 1896 and 1900 Summer Olympics and who starved to death at Theresienstadt.
1876(10th of Tevet, 5636): Asara B'Tevet
1876: In Panama, “Simon Lazarus Landsburgh and his wife Rebecca” gave birth San Francisco architect Albert Gustave Landsburgh.
http://pcad.lib.washington.edu/person/123/
http://www.jmaw.org/lansburgh-jewish-san-francisco/
1877: It was reported today that Bishop Claughton presided over a meeting of several prominent English clergyman where they discussed the difficulty they were having in converting Jews to Christianity.
1878(3rd of Shevat, 5638): Karl Ritter von Weil, a lawyer by training who pursued a career as journalist at the Allgemeine Zeitung and “a member of the executive board of the Israelitische Allianz” passed away today.
1878: It was reported today that the United States Consul at Florence had sent the State Department a report describing the government loan institutions (Monte di Pieta) of Italy first introduced by Bernasdoda Feltried toward the close of the 15th century which led to Jewish money-lenders being banish from Florence.
1879: Superintendent Lewis was in charge of the orphanage for Jewish children in Brooklyn that opened today with 4 children residing at the facility.
1879: In St. Louis, Sarah and Charles Bienenstok gave birth to Edgar Allan Bienenstock, the husband of Etta Reach Bienenstok and the father of Charles and Jane Bienenstok.
1879: Birthdate of architect Gustave Albert Lansburgh who designed Oakland’s Temple Sinai in 1914 and whose personal favorite “was said to have been the Al Hirschfield Theatre.”
1881: Birthdate of Henrik Galeen, the native of Lemberg whose extensive career as a screenwriter and movie director began in 1915 with “The Golem.”
1881: Three days after she had passed way, Blanche Baumann, “the eldest daughter of David and Sarah Baumann, was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1881: Herr Strassman who is Jewish received 97 out of 120 votes to gain re-election as President of the Berlin Municipal Council
1883: Seventy-seven year old Sarah Samuel, the daughter of Jacob Abraham Mocatta and Rebecca Daniel Lousada and the wife of Frederick Samuel with whom she had one child – Lionel Jacob Samuel – was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1884:The Hebrew Technical Institute, a vocational High School in New York City was founded on today. The school was founded after three Hebrew charity organizations formed a committee to promote technical education for the many Jewish immigrants arriving in New York at the time. The school closed in 1939
1884(9th of Tevet, 5644): Julius Hallgarten, the wealthy American banker, passed away today in Davos Switzerland.
1885:Alois Hitler (born Alois Schicklgruber) married Klara Pölzl whose fourth child would be the author of the Holocaust.
1885: In Bavaria, Baruch and Fanny Rothschild gave birth to Samuel Rothschild
1887(11th of Tevet, 5647):Anna "Nettie" Rosenbaum Grossmann, wife of Ignatz Grossmann and the mother of Julius, Adolph, Louis and Rudolph who had been born in Hungary in 1835 passed away today in Detroit Michigan.
1888: A telegram arrived in Leadville, CO, stating that the “defendant in the case of the United States vs. Jacob Schloss and others had achieved final victory before Judge D. J. Brew of the United States Supreme Court
1888: In Elmhurst, Long Island, NY, Rebecca Morse Hyatt and Louis Albert Sussdorf gave birth to Harvard graduate Louis Sussdorf, a member of the U.S. diplomatic corps and husband of Flores Howard whose hobbies included “skating, skiing and mountain climbing.”
1888: In Russia, Bath Sheiva Puchkoff and Abraham Dubovsky gave birth to NYU trained medical doctor Benjamin Dubovsky, the husband of Lena Smith and member of the faculties of NYU and Bellevue Medical College who was the president of the National Federation of Ukrainian Jews.
http://yivoarchives.org/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=32847
(Editor’s Note: some source show his birthdate as June 7)
1889(5th of Shevat, 5649): Asher Asher passed away in London. Born at Glasgow in 1837, “was the first Scottish Jew to enter the medical profession” In 1873, he published The Jewish Rite of Circumcision. “Since 1910, the University of Glasgow awards the Asher Asher Memorial Medal and Prize, annually for its Ear, Nose and Throat course.”
1890: State Senator Jacob Cantor was among those who were present when the 113th New York State Legislature was convened today.
1890: Birthdate of Frieda Ulricke “Henny” Porten the German silent film actress from Magednberg who “refused to divorce her Jewish husband when the Nazis came to power” even though it meant the end of her career.
1891: It was reported today that Captain A.F. Wild of the U.S. Secret service has arrested Antono Ruggiero, an Italian-Jew who used the alias Anthony Rogers on charges of having been involved with a ring that counterfeited two-dollar bills.
https://yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Bader_Gershom
1892: The Brooklyn Institute is scheduled to host a program entitled “The Policy of the Czar in the Expulsion of the Jews and the War of Movement in Europe” this evening.
1893: In Hungary, Stefanie and Adolph Mendlowicz gave birth to Hertha (Mendlowicz) Mendelson who eventually settled in Haifa.
1893: It was reported today that the meeting organized by the right-wing anti-Semitic journal Libre Parole was addressed by the Marquis de Mores. He opened his speech “with a general onslaught on the Hews as the corrupters of French honesty and the haters of French honor.”
1893: Birthdate of Breslau native and German trained physician Ernest Gellhorn whom in 1929 came to the United States where he served as professor neurophysiology at the University of Minnesota and wrote Principles of Autonomic-Somatic Integrations
1895: General Horace Porter, the President of the Union Club and his predecessor Chauncey M. Depew, refused to discuss the resignation of Edward Einstein from their organization. They did not dispute Einstein’s claim that he had left because a Jewish candidate had been blackballed because of his religion.
1895(11th of Tevet, 5655): London born physician Lewis Oppenheim who worked with Florence Nightingale during the Crimea War and served as ship’s surgeon on board the SS Kent before opening a practice in the UK where he passed away today.
1895: Adolph Sutro began serving as the 24th mayor of San Francisco, CA making him the first Jew to be elected to this position
1895: “Edwin Einstein Resigns” published today described the impact of Edward Einstein’s resignation from the Union Club which resulted from the blackballing of the son of Jesse Seligman because of his religion and which now leaves the social organization without a Jewish member; a situation which will not soon change since there are no Jews on the list of perspective members.
1895: “The Crusaders and Their Work” provides a detailed review of The Crusaders: The Story of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem by T.A. Archer and Charles L. Kingsford which attributes the practice of making pilgrimages to Jerusalem to the Jews in a period the pre-dates Christianity.
1896: Herzl's article "Die Lösung der Judenfrage" - "The Solution of the Jewish Question" appears in "The Jewish Chronicle" in
1896: Nine-year-old Rachel Silverman and three year old Sarah Silverman, the daughters of Freda Silverman “were committed to the Ladies’ Deborah Nursery” today following a hearing at the Essex Market Police Court.”
1896: In South Bend, IN, Jennie Rothschild and Nathan J. Cohen gave birth University of Chicago graduate and Rush Medical College trained doctor Seymour Jerome Cohen, the husband of Sylvia Kaplan who served as instructor in pharmacology at the University of Illinois.
1896: Levi Freiburg, a fifty-year old Jew was being held on charges of child endangerment at the Lee Avenue Police Station.
1896: Birthdate of David Alper, the Russian born husband of Minnie "Manya""Machle" Isiomin whom he married almost a decade after his first wife Frida Alpher had passed away and father of Moe and Ralph Abraham Alper.
1896(21st of Tevet, 5656): Fifty-seven year old Sir Julian Goldsmid, 3rd Baronet “a British lawyer, businessman and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1866 and 1896” passed away today at Brighton.
1897: The annual meeting of the Educational Alliance which included addresses by Isidor Straus and Dr. Henry Leipzierg was held tonight Temple Emanu-El in New York City
1897: Birthdate of Hennessey, OK, native Arthur J. “Dutch” Strauss the Phillips College football player who went on to play professional for the Toledo Maroons.
1898: The Brooklyn Hebrew Hospital Society applied to the State Board of Charities for a certificate of incorporation.
1898(13th of Tevet, 5658): Sixty-two year old Ernest Abraham Hart who “was appointed ophthalmic surgeon at St Mary's hospital at the age of 28” and who was the long time editor of the British Medical Journal passed away today.
1898: Three men were hung today at Hahnville in St. Charles Parish, LA for their part in murdering a Jewish peddler name Ziegler after they had robbed him while he was at the Ellington Plantation.
1898: “Charity in the Holy Land” published today described the indignation expressed by representatives of the Auxiliary Relief Branch of the Russian and Polish Jewish Central Committee at Jerusalem over charges “made of misuse of the money collected in the United States for the relief of poor American Jews in Jerusalem and Palestine.
1899: “Scotts Novels” published today contained a description of the English authors novels including Ivanhoe which features “such quotable characters” as Rebecca and her uncle, Isaac the Jew.
1900: A charge of “ritual murder” was made “against the Jews of Nachod, Bohemia.
1900: Dr. Joseph Silverman is scheduled to “deliver his second lecture on ‘Justice to the Christian and Jew’ at Temple Emanu-El” this morning.
1900: It was announced today that “at the monthly meeting of the Council of the Anglo-Jewish Association that Baron Edmond de Rothschild” has ceded “his Palestine colonies to the Jewish Colonization Association.”
1901:Joseph K. Toole who laid the cornerstone when construction began on Temple Emanu-El in Helena Montana began his second, non-consecutive term as Governor of Montana.
1902(28th of Tevet, 5662): Sixty-one-year-old Adolph Moses, the native of Poland who fought with Garibaldi and in the Polish revolt against Russia before he came to the United States where he served as a rabbi in Mobile, Alabama and Louisville, Kentucky passed away today.
1902: Birthdate of German Jewish educator Fritz Bamberger who after coming to the United States to escape the Nazis left the world of academics to become the editor of Coronet Magazine.
1902: “Frocks and Frills” starring Rose Eytinge opened on Broadway.
1902: At the Almorah Cemetery in Jersey, Rabbi J.L. Hanau officiated at the funder of Solomon Lyons who was a “gunner” in the British Army and the son of Henry Lyons of Birmingham
1902: Today, “By a margin of only 394 votes, Republican Montague Lessler defeated” his Democratic opponent “to fill a vacancy for the U.S. representative seat for the normally Democrat Seventh New York District.”
1902: Radom, Poland native and Jewish convert to Calvinism Jan Gotlib Bloch the banker and railway financier who “spent considerable effort to opposing the prevalent Anti-Semitic policies of the Tsarist government and was sympathetic to the fledgling Zionist Movement” passed away today.
1903: In
1904: “Kishineff Fears Not Ended” published today described precautions being taken by Jews in Kishinev to avoid the consequences of another outbreak of violence which included leaving town, staying at home as much as possible if leaving was not an option and by being “circumspect” as “to avoid givng a pretext for misunderstanding to their Christian fellow-townsmen.”
1904 Today’s “dispatch from St. Petersburg says that the Russian Minister of the Interior had made himself personally responsible to the Czar for the prevention of fanatical outbreaks against Jews at Kishineff.”
1904: The Russian Symphony Orchestra founded by Modest Altschuler had its debut performance at Cooper Union.
1905(1st of Shevat, 5665): Rosh Chodesh Shevat
1905(1st of Shevat, 5665): Sixty-year-old Jette Einstein passed away today.
1906(10th Tevet, 5666): Asara B’Tevet
1906: “Passing of Zadoc Kahn --- Career of France’s Late Grand Rabbi
published today described “the funeral of Zadoc Kahn, the Grand Rabbi of France “a unique position” that “dates back to the time of the First Empire” under Napoleon.
1907: “An interesting premonitory symptom of the effect of universal suffrage upon the electoral situation in Austria is reported from Lemberg, the capital of Galicia, where many hundred representative Jews met today and resolved to create a Jewish provincial organization for the defense of the political rights and economic interests of Jews, in view of the forthcoming introduction of universal suffrage.
1908: Birthdate of Syracuse University trained attorney Arnold M. Grant, “a leading corporate and tax lawyer in the film industry who for many years was active in fund-raising efforts for the Democratic Party and Jewish organizations”
1909: It was reported today that in a letter to the Times of London, Lord Swaythling, the President of the Russo-Jewish Committee and the head of Samuel Montague & Co defended the committee’s depreciation of the proposed ten million dollar loan that would allow railroads to be built in the Grand Duchy of Finland because most of the more than 200 Jewish families living Finland “are without legal rights” and “thirty or more of these families” have been ordered to leave the country immediately.
1910: In Paris, banker Baron Robert de Rothschild and Gabrielle Nelly Regine Beer gave birth to banker and philanthropist Alain de Rothschild whose wealth did not him from being “sent to a detention camp during WW II and who was the husband of Mary Chauvin de Treuil with whom he had three children – Beatrice, Eric and Robert.
1911: In Witkovitz, Jakob and Laura Lichtenstern gave birth to Margit Lichtenstern Wolf.
1912: At a time when Reform congregations were trying to shift “Sabbath Services” from Saturday to Sunday, today “Mr. Sigmund Zeisler is scheduled to speak on the ‘Oberammergau Passion Play’ at Chicago Sinai Congregation where services began at 10:30 a.m.
1912: The musical program at this morning’s service at Temple Sinai in Chicago is scheduled to include “the opening anthem ‘Behold God is Great’” and will be led by Cantor Albert Boroff.
1913: In an attempt to help the public differentiate between to labor unions each of which have a large Jewish membership, Gertrude Barnum wrote today that that current men’s garment worker strike has nothing to with the International Ladies’ Garment Workers which hopes to reach its goals with “a short and peaceful struggle.
1913: It was reported today the members of the International Order of B’nai B’rith, led by their President , Adolph Kraus of Chicago have presented President Taft with a gold medal “in recognition of his services to the Jewish race, particularly in connection with the Russian controversy.
1914: Leo L. Honor presided over tonight’s meeting of the Menorah Society at City College during which noted banker Jacob H. Schiff “voiced a warning against Zionism saying that it “threatened the very existence of the Jewish race.”
1915: It was reported today that Harry Alexander and Leonard Haas, counsel for Leo Frank would probably not oppose a motion by the state of Georgia to advance the hearing of their client’s case before the U.S. Supreme Court.
1915: A meeting was held at Radcliff College today where “the purposes of the Menorah Society were outlined to the members by Mr. Henry Hurwitz and Mr. Ralph a Newman, President of the Harvard Menorah Society, extended greetings of welcome.”
1915: During WW I, Alexander Helphand a Ukrainian born Jew who was also known as Israel Lazarevich Gelfand and who had risen to prominence in the Bolshevik movement, approached the German Ambassador in Constantinople. He contended that the Germans and the Bolsheviks should make common cause because they had similar goals, the overthrow of the Czar and the dismemberment of the Russian Empire into smaller entities. This intitial overture would ultimately lead to the Germans shipping Lenin and his supporters back to Russia during the Russian Revolution to ensure that Russia would make a separate peace with the Kaiser.
1916: In “Rabbi Silver Will Talk on General Subjects,” published today, The Wheeling Register reports on a series of upcoming Sunday lectures to be delivered at the Eoff Street Temple. "The general subject for the series will be Aspects of American Life. The lectures will touch on topics related to business, home, the stage, politics, school and the press and will be given in Rabbi Silver's characteristic manner."
1916: One of the contributions received today at the New York office of the American Jewish Relief Committee came from the Treasurer of the Sunday school of the First Methodist Episcopal Church in Corinth, Mississippi in the amount of $34.02 which represented the total found in the collection plate last Sunday.
1916: The Knights of Zion Convention is scheduled to continue its meetings in Chicago this evening.
1917: “A meeting of the Jewish Lecturers’ League,” which “was organized two years ago for the purpose of creating a closer relation among Jewish lecturers throughout the” United States and “to make the cultural platform more popular” took place today in Newark, NJ “when colleagues from New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Maryland “ met to discusses “possibilities of extending the work of the league.
1917: “Speaking in place of Dr. Henry R. Rose” who had fallen ill, “Rabbi Solomon Foster of B’nai Jeshurun” spoke at the Church of the Redeemer this evening in Newark, NU, where he “expressed the belief that after the war religion will be stronger than ever.”
1917: Dr. Joseph Silverman delivered an address this morning at Temple Emanu-El in which he “argued in favor of Government supervision of the many relief agencies in connection with the war and the rebuilding of homes and shops after the war.”
1917: Among the contributions reported today the Joint Distribution Committee of the Funds for Jewish War Sufferers were $50,000 from Felix Warburg, $10,000 from Paul Warburg, $5,000 from Temple Emanu-El and $5,000 from Lamport Mfg. Co., the largest company in the world “dealing in remnants which was founding by Samuel Charles Lamport the Polish born graduate of CCNY who attended Brown University who was very active in the Jewish community as can be seen by his support of the Home of the Daughters of Jacob which his mother-in-law, Mrs. A.J. Dworsky is president..
1917: Birthdate of Alfred Mordecai Freedman,a psychiatrist and social reformer who led the American Psychiatric Association in 1973 when, overturning a century-old policy, it declared that homosexuality was not a mental illness.
1917: “Isidore Montefiore Levy of the Board of Education” is scheduled “to address the Harlem Forum at the Wadleigh High School.
1917: “Notable speakers” including Henry Morgenthau and Dr. J. L. Magnes are scheduled to “discuss the conditions of Jews in the war territories” this evening at the Waldorf Astoria at a meeting of the Judeans.
1917: “The annual meeting of the Education Alliance and its Women’s Auxiliary” are scheduled to hold a meeting this evening at the Young People’s Branch.
1918: The “Parliamentary Committee of the British Trade Union Congress and Executive Committee of the British Trade Union Congress and Executive Committee” issued a memorandum today recommending “that Jews in all countries enjoy the common elementary of tolerance, freedom of residence and trade and equal citizenship, and that Palestine be set free from the oppressive government of the Turk and formed in a free State, under international guarantee, to which such of the Jewish people as desire to do so may return.”
1918: On New York’s east side, hundreds of Jews closed their shops to attend the funeral of Dr. Paul S. Kaplan who cared for the city’s poorest citizens and was eulogized by a wide array of speakers including Lillian D. Wald, Abraham Cahan of the Jewish Daily Forward, Professor Isaac Hourwich, Rabbi J.L. Magnes, Joseph Barondness, Nicolas Aleinikoff, and Max Pine.
1918: Seventy-three-year-old German biblical scholar Julius Wellhausen who “is credit with being one of the originators of the ‘documentary hypothesis’” passed away today.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_New_International_Encyclop%C3%A6dia/Wellhausen,_Julius
http://vintage.aomin.org/JEDP.html
1919(6th of Shevat, 5679): Sixty-seven-year-old Anglo Jewish banker and philanthropist Herbert Stern, 1st Baron Michelham, the son of Herman de Stern and Julia Goldsmid and the first cousin of Sydney James Stern and Sir Edward Stern passed away today in Paris.
1920: In Youngstown, OH, Jacob Grobstein, the son of Harry Yormark Grobstein and his wife Sarah Grobstein gave birth to Howard Louis Grobe
1920: “The Count of Cagliostro” a “silent horror film directed by and co-starring Reinhold Schünzel who co-authored the script along with Robert Liebmann was released in Austria today.
1920: Louis Waldman and Charles Solomon were among the five members of the Socialist Party that the New York State Assembly refused to seat as Assemblymen.
1921: Publication of the first edition of the resurrected Yiddish language newspaper Der Emmes (The Truth) published by Yevsektsiya, the Jewish section of the Communist Party. An earlier version of the paper had been published in 1918 in Moscow. The paper would cease publication in 1939 when it fell victim to an anti-Yiddish campaign in the Soviet Union.
1921: A Commission in
1921: Birthdate of
1922(7th of Tevet, 5682): Parashat Vayigash
1922: The partners of Edgar Speyer published a letter supporting their business partner and rejected rthe implications of his correspondence with his German relatives, stating that he was "incapable of any act of treachery against the country of his adoption"
1922(7th of Tevet, 5682: Abraham Oppenheimer, a veteran of the Mexican American War and the Civil War passed away today in Philadelphia.
1923(19th of Tevet, 5683):Emil Gustav Hirsch “a major Reform movement rabbi in the United States” passed away. Born on May 22, 1852 in Luxembourg, he was “a son of the rabbi and philosopher Samuel Hirsch. He later married the daughter of Rabbi David Einhorn. For forty-two years (1880-1922), Hirsch served as the rabbi of Chicago Sinai Congregation, one of the oldest synagogues in the midwest. At this post, he became well-known for an emphasis on social justice. From Chicago Sinai's pulpit, he delivered rousing sermons on the social ills of the day and many Chicagoans, Jew and gentile alike, were in attendance. Appointed professor of rabbinical literature and philosophy at the University of Chicago in 1892, Hirsch also served on the Chicago Public Library board from 1885 to 1897. He was an influential exponent of advanced thought and Reform Judaism. He edited Der Zeitgeist (Milwaukee) (1880–82) and the Reform Advocate (1891–1923). He also edited the Department of the Bible of the Jewish Encyclopedia. Hirsch is the namesake of the Emil G. Hirsch Metropolitan High School of Communications (Hirsch Metro), located in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago. In keeping with his interest in education, Hirsch advised a wealthy congregant, Julius Rosenwald of Sears, Roebuck & Co., to use part of his wealth to help build public schools which black students could attend in the segregated south. The school building program was one of the largest programs, but not the only, administered by the Rosenwald Fund.
1924: George Gershwin began working on “American Rhapsody” which his brother would re-name “Rhapsody in Blue.”
1925: Musical "Big Boy" with Al Jolson premiered in
1926: George Burns married Gracie Allen. He was Jewish. She wasn’t.
1926(21stof Tevet, 5686): Eighty-nine year old Alexander del Mar, the oldest son of Jacob and Belvidere del Mar, “an American political economist, historian, numismatist and author” who “was the first director of the Bureau of Statistics at the U.S. Treasury Department” passed away today.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/282579.Alexander_del_Mar
http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2011/11/how-alexander-del-mar-who-scooped.html
1926: “John Cohen, a wholesale jeweler, and one his salesman” David Rosen, “were held up this afternoon” in the Bronx “by four or five-well dressed youths” who stole a wallet containing $20,000 in unset diamonds “which had been ripped from the salesman’s inner vest pocket.
1927: Abe Saperstein’s Harlem Globetrotters play their first game in
1927: A memorial service was held for the late Zionist poet Achad Ha’Am at New York’s Cooper Union.
1928(14th of Tevet, 5688): Parashat Vayechi
1928: “The organization of an interdenominational committee of Coney Island business men to aid the $250,000 Jewish Community Center drive in Coney Island with George V. McLaughlin, form er Police Commissioner and President of the Brooklyn Trust Company as honorary head was announced” today “by Leon S. Kaiser, chairman of the Campaign Committee.
1929: Birthdate of Washington, DC native Ida Rubin, the wife of Judge Leonard Ruben who served as a State Senator for twenty years “rising to the position of president of pro-tem before losing her seat in 2006.
1929: Henry Arthur Jones, the English dramatist whose works include “Judah” which was first performed in 1890 passed away.
1930: Rabbi Abraham Simcha Irom, “the son of Shifra and Israel David Irom” and his wife Pauline From gave birth to Rene Irom who became Renee Spivak when she married William Spivak.
1930: Birthdate of Elliot Kastner, the native of New York who was raised in Harlem after his father died and went to become a leading movie producer whose work included WW II espionage thriller “Where Eagles Dare.”
1931: The first session of the 154thNew York State Legislature in which Carl Pack served as a member representing the 3rd District, Bronx County opened today in Albany.
1931: Doar Hayom, the newspaper of the Revisionists, published a demand that the election for the Jewish-elected Assembly be declared null and void and that new elections should be held.
1932: Chaim Arlosoroff, head of the Political Department of the Jewish Agency, wrote a letter to High Commissioner Viscount Ord Plumer proposing that the municipal region of Jerusalem should be divided into two boroughs: West Jerusalem, which was mostly Jewish and the Old City which was largely Arab. A United Municipal Council would oversee these to two sub-entities. The British rejected the proposal lest it anger the Arabs.
1932: Birthdate of Allen Richard Grossman the native of Minneapolis “an award-winning poet whose work bridged the Romantic and Modernist traditions, claiming nobility and power for poetry as a tool for both engaging the world and burrowing into the self.” (As reported by Bruce Weber)
1933(9th of Tevet, 5693): Parashat Vayigash
1933: In statement issued today, Cyrus Adler, the chairman of the American Council of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, declared that “the maintenance of Jewish reconstruction in Palestine is a project for which the Jews have their honor to all nations” and “call upon the representatives of the American-Jewish groups to attend the national conference on Palestine to held on January 15 at the Hotel Astor.”
1934: The New York Times reported on the recent announcement that 200 Jewish families, drawn from the ranks of jobless needle trade workers in
1934:Non-Aryans were banned from adopting Aryan children in Germany which meant that Jews and people who had had Jewish ancestors but not know it and thought of themselves as Christians could not adopt.
1934: Birthdate of George Zames, the Polish born Canadian “control theorist and professor at McGill University.
http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~djouadi/files/Zames%20Legacy.pdf
1935: Birthdate of Noam Sheriff, one of
1935(3rd of Shevat, 5695): Rabbi Yosef ben Rabbi Menachem Kalisch zt"l, the Amshinover Rebbe, passed away.
1935: Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco–Italian Agreement. The Italians were looking for a free hand in their conquest of Abyssinia (modern day Ethiopia). The French were looking for support in dealing with Hitler. The irony of this is that Pierre Laval would become the Prime Minister of Vichy France a role which enable him to ship thousands of French Jews to Drancy and then on to the death camps in the East. Mussolini, who had support of some Italian Jews and a Jewish mistress, would become Hitler’s ally.
1935: Birthdate of Joe Wizan the head of 20th Century Fox's motion picture division and an independent producer of films such as "Jeremiah Johnson" and "… And Justice for All” (As reported by Dennis McLellan)
1936: Speaking at a luncheon given in her honor by the Survey Associates as part of the celebration of her 75th birthday, Hadassah founder Henrietta Szold “told a large group of leaders in social work that Youth Aliyah already had brought 950 German-Jewish children to Palestine and placed them in cooperative settlement camps” where it will cost $360 per child to provide for them over the next two years.
1936: Today, over 400 people filled the Beth-El Chapel of Temple Emanu-El in Manhattan where Nathan Perilman, the associate rabbi officiated over the funeral service for 74 year old Simon Frank Rothschild, the chairman of the board of Abraham and Straus department store in Brooklyn, following which Rabbi Alexander Lyons of the Eighth Avenue Temple in Brooklyn officiated at the burial in the Salem Fields Cemetery.
1937(24th of Tevet, 5697): Fargo, ND, merchant and civic leader Matt Siegel passed away today.
1937: “The Eternal Road” a four act opera-oratorio “conceived by Zionist activist Meyer Weisgal to alert the then-ignorant public to Hitler's persecution of the Jews in 1937 Germany” opened today at the Manhattan Opera House.
1937: Chairman of the Board of Directors Bernard Flexner announced today that “the Palestine Economic Corporation, with its predecessors, the Palestine Cooperative Company and the Reconstruction Committee, has since 1922 issued loans through subsidiaries aggregating $17,500,000 to helpd urband and rural groups in Palestine to become self-supporting.”
1938: The Palestine Postreported that Romania started re-examining the naturalization of all "foreigners" who had settled there since 1913, in order to deprive them of their citizenship. The first victims of the new policy were Jewish doctors who lost their right to practice medicine. Jewish innkeepers were declared to be "dangerous". All Jews were divided into citizens and non-citizens, and the latter became the subject of a compulsory expulsion. A timely British note reminded Romania of her obligations under the Minorities Treaty, signed in Paris in 1910.
1938: In Baltimore, MD, Klare and Louis P. Hamburger, Jr gave birth to “Fritzi Hamburger.”
1938(7th of Shevat, 5698): Sixty-five year old Washington, DC native Philip King, the All-American quarterback at Princeton University who went on to compile a record of 73-14-1 as the head coach at Georgetown University and the University of Wisconsin passed away today in his home town.
1938: Arnold Bernstein, the 49 year old decorated German artillery officer and Jewish shipping magnate was sentenced today in Hamburg to two and a half years in the penitentiary and a fine of one million marks on charges of having violated the exchange laws – a sentence that will insure the forced sail the Red Star Shipping Lines which is already under the control of a Nazi government trustee.
1939: Official founding of the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra.
1939: “ A brief conference today between United States Ambassador William Phillips and Foreign Minster Count Galeazzo Ciano increased hopes that President Roosevelt’s memorandum to Premier Benito Mussolini on the Jewish question would results”
1940(26th of Tevet, 5700): State Supreme Court Justice Alfred Frankenthaler passed away tonight at the age of 58. Born in 1881, he attended City College, where he developed a life-long friendship with Felix Frankfurter and graduated from Columbia Law School in 1903. Frankenthaler was active in Democratic Party Politics, numerous civic and professional organizations and Jewish charitable activities.
1941: In Chicago, twenty-one year old Irving Abitz, the son of Michael and Rose Abitz, enlisted in the U.S. Army where he trained as a medic which led to him serving with Patton’s Third Army from its activation in 1944 until the end of the war.
1941: Members of the Woman’s League for Palestine are using tonight performance of “Meet the People,” the new topical, musical revue at the Mansfield Theatre as a benefit for the Overseas Refugee Relief fund. The net proceeds will augment the $25,000 Emergency Refugee Relief Fund for young women refugees sheltered in the two home of the league in Haifa and Tel Aviv.
1942: A major Arctic blast hit the
1942(18thof Tevet, 5702): “The treasurer of the Women’s Democratic Luncheon Club, Mrs. Grace Newhouse Lederer, the sister of Miss Miriam E. Newhouse and the widow of Ephraim Lederer, “the Collector of Internal Revenue from 1913 until 1921, who “president of the Hebrew Benevolent Society, honorary president of the Hebrew Sunday School of Philadelphia” and “an honorary director of the Federation of Jewish Charities and of the Jewish Aid Society passed away today in Philadelphia.
1942: Throughout the day at the Chelmno,
1943: British Colonial Secretary Oliver Stanley informs the British War Cabinet that
1943: As the Battle of Stalingrad, one of the great turning points of WWII, reached its climactic month, the Soviets “sent three envoys” to offer General Paulus terms for surrender.
1943: Over the next three weeks, twenty thousand Jews from
1944: “Anne Frank confessed her love for” Peter Schiff “a boy she had been smitten with for years.”
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/feb/24/news.features
1944(11thof Shevat, 5704): Seventy-one year old Frederick Fred Margareten, the Hungarian born son Julia and Rabbi Joel Margareten and the husband of Regina Margareten who was part of the Horwitz-Margareten Kosher Food family who was a contributor to “the Allied Jewish Campaign” passed away today in Los Angeles.
1944: Word reached those living in New York City that Rabbi Louis Werfel, the 27-year-old chaplain serving with the 12th Air Force Service Command was killed in a plane crash in Algeria on Christmas Eve, 1943. Werfel was the fourth Jewish chaplain be killed in line of duty during World War II. Werfel was known as “the flying rabbi” because of his willingness to use aircraft to reach Jewish soldiers serving in far-flung outposts throughout the Mediterranean Theatre
1945(22ndpf Tevet. 5705): Fifty-eight-year-old Tillie Adamosfky Balaban, the wife Abraham Balaban passed away after which she was buried in the Beth Israel Cemetery in West Springfield, MA.
1945: In Ottawa, Canada, “Kate Weiss, a German Jew who fled the Holocaust, and Sol Feuerstein, a Brooklyn salesman gave birth to Bath Shmuel Ben Ari Feuerstein, author of The Dialectic of Sex
1946: In New York, Sim and Edward Wenner gave birth to “Jann Simon Wenner, the co-founder and publisher of Rolling Stone.
https://www.thenational.ae/business/jann-wenner-architect-of-a-rock-n-roll-empire-1.558692
1946(5thof Shevat, 5706): Eighty year old Toledo native Edward Nathan Calisch who at the age of 26 became the Rabbi at Richmond’s Congregation Beth Ahabah which he led from Orthodox to Reform and who was the husband of Gisela “Gussie” Woolner Calisch with whom he had three children passed away today.
1946: Forty-three year old Polish born Pennsylvania lawyer and political leader Samuel Arthur Weiss resigned his seat as member of the House Representative
1947: “A government source said today the Foreign Secretary Bevin and Colonial Secretary Arthur Creech Jones had decided to recommend to the Cabinet that Palestine be divided into independent Arab and Jewish States.”
1947: “David Ben-Gurion disclosed today that he would go to Palestine this week on a ‘peace mission’ to try to avert further outbreaks of” violence “by Jewish extremists.”
1948: With
1948(25thof Tevet, 5708): Fifty-six year old Berlin born physician and WW I German Army veteran Max Pinner who began practicing medicine in the United States in 1924, the year he married Berna Rudovic passed away today and who was an expert in the field of Tuberculosis passed away today in Berkley, CA.
http://www.jameslindlibrary.org/articles/max-pinner-1891-1948/
1949: During Israel’s War of Independence Operation Horev came to an end.
1949: At two o’clock in the afternoon, Israel accepts a ceasefire on the Egyptian front based on Egypt’s publicly announced willingness to negotiate an armistice.
1949: During the War for Independence Israeli pilots including Ezer Weizamn shot down 5 British planes that flew over the battlefront with Egypt. The British government was hardly a disinterested party during the war. The Jordanian Army, known as the Arab Legion, drew its leadership from the British Army. The British supplied and trained the force as well. The actions of the RAF at this point, further debunk the notion that the British were neutrals and that the West was responsible for the creation and survival of the infant state of Israel.
1950:The "ten greatest Jews of the last fifty years" were named today by Rabbi Israel Goldstein in a sermon at Congregation B'nai Jeshurun, in New York City.
1950: “The Andrews Sisters version” of "I Can Dream, Can't I?,"“a popular song written by Sammy Fain with lyrics by Irving Kahal that was published in 1937” reached the top spot on Cash Box Best Sellers chart.
1951: As it starts its first post-independence tour in the United States, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO) has its first performance at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C.
1953:The eightieth anniversary of American Reform Judaism, founded in Cincinnati by the late Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise "to adapt Judaism to the American way of life," was marked tonight with special ceremonies and a dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. More than 300 American Jewish leaders from various sections of the country attended.
1953: The Jerusalem Postreported that the Knesset debated the proposed State Archives' and Public Accountants' Bills. Israel seized an Egyptian ship with a cargo of 65 tons of arms, bound for Syria. The ship was reported to have run aground in Israel's territorial waters.
1953: President Harry Truman announces that the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb. The bomb had been successfully tested at Eniwetok atoll in 1952. The creation of the H-bomb had pitted Edward Teller against Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the Atomic Bomb.” The two Jewish physicists became the poles around which the proponents and opponents rallied during this major Cold War debate.
1955(13th of Tevet, 5715): Seventy-six years ago Professor of Mathematics Edward Kasner, “the first Jew appointed to faculty position in the sciences at Columbia University” passed away today.
http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/kasner-edward.pdf
1955: A month after premiering in New York, “Animal Farm” an animated version of the book by the same name with music by Mátyás Seiber was released in London today.
1956(23rd of Tevet, 5716): Parashat Shemot
1957: Birthdate of Queens, NY native and Sarah Lawrence graduate Ira Kaplan, the husband of Georgia Hubley and songwriter/guitarist who is a leading member of the “indie rock world.”
1958: A week after Ben Gurion resigned as Prime Minister “over the leaking of information from ministerial meetings” he formed the 8thgovernment “with the same coalition partners.”
1958(15th of Tevet, 5718): Samuel Yuster passed away today after which he was buried at Mount Hebron Cemetery in Flushing, NY.
1958: As Israel transitioned from its 7th government to its 8th government, Golda Meir continued to serve as Foreign Minister.
1958: As of today, chess master Samuel Reshevsky “was eclipsed by the 14-year-old Bobby Fischer.”
1959(27th of Tevet, 5719): Jean Lerman, the daughter of Dora and the late Philip Rosenbuam and the wife of Dr. Jacob Lerman of Chestnut Hill, MA, passed away today.
1959: As the Castro Revolution became a reality, Meyer Lanksy fled Cuba today headed for the Bahamas in an admission that the Mobs Cuban Casino days were about to become a thing of the past.
1959(27th of 5719): Fifty-year-old Lodz, Poland native Dr. Gershon Gelbert, who after earning “a doctorate at Dropsie College,” taught at Gratz College, the University of Omaha and NYU, and served the “director Jewish Education in Italy for the Joint Distribution Committee” after World War II while raising his “daughter Rena” with his wife, Frances Spitzer Gelbart” passed away today “at his home in Brooklyn.”
1962: Lev Landau’s was in an automobile accident today which left him so severely injured that he was unable to accept the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physics in person.
1967(25th of Tevet, 5727): American author and screen writer David Goodis, passed away.
1969: Marvin Mandel began serving as the 56th Governor of Maryland.
1969: Birthdate of Israeli comedian and television performer Eyal Kitzis.
1969: Carl Levin began serving on the Detroit City Council
1969(17th of Tevet, 5729): Eighty-four-year-old Martha Schallek Wallenstein the wife of Joseph S. Wallenstein passed away today after which she was buried at Beth El Cemetery in Ridgewood, NY.
1970: In response to cross canal attacks by Egyptian forces, Israeli planes begin an in-depth bombing campaign against Egyptian military bases.
1971(10th of Tevet, 5731): Asara B'Tevet
1971: Today, Israel charged Egypt with violating the cease-fire when its aircraft made for “sorties over Israeli positions on the eastern bank of the Suez Canal.”
1972: Howard Hughes “arranged a telephone conversation with seven journalist” which was intended to debunk Clifford Irving’s claim that he had written an authorized biography of the reclusive, eccentric millionaire.
1973: After 14 performances at the Billy Rose Theatre, the curtain came down on “Purlie,” a musical comedy with lyrics by Peter Udell and music by Gary Geld.
1975(24th of Tevet, 5735): Seventy-six year old Paul H. Sampliner, “a founder and former president of the Independent News Company, Inc.” and “an organizing founder of the Anti-Defamation League” who raised his children – Philip and Joan – with his wife “the former Sophie Unger” passed away today.
1975: Today, NBC broadcast “The Dream Makers” a made for television movie directed and produced by Boris Sagal and co-starring his daughter Katey Sagal.
1976(5th of Shevat, 5736): Eighty year old Samuel Salzman , the husband of Yetta Salzman and the father of Fern, Frank and Evelyn Salzman who served with the “37thU.S. Army Division in France during WW I, founded the United Supply Company in Cleveland and “was an active member of the Temple on the Heights” passed away today and was buried in the Glenville Cemetery in Cleveland.
1978: The Jerusalem Post reported from Cairo Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's announcement that after the signing of the peace agreement he would not accept the presence of even a single Israeli soldier or civilian who would like to remain on Egyptian soil.
1978: Isaiah Sheffer and “his artistic partner…put on a marathon concert of Bach “at a grimy, derelict movie theater on Manhattan’s Upper West Side” that would become Symphony Space.
1979: Two years before he began serving as United States Senator, today Carl Levin completed his services as member of the Detroit City Council.
1979(8thof Tevet, 5739): Eighty-three-year-old “Samuel David Landau,” the painter known as Lev-Landau who raised his son Jacob with his wife Lola, passed away today.
1979: The New York Times book section features the following Walter Kerr’s essay on Anne Frank entitled 'Anne Frank' Shouldn't Be Anne's Play
1980(18thof Tevet, 5740): Eighty-year old Dov Joseph who served as the military governor of Jerusalem during the 1948 War of Independence and served as MK and cabinet minister passed away today.
1980(18thof Tevet, 5740): Israeli poet Yocheved Bat-Miriam who stopped writing poetry when her son Nahum (Zuik) Hazaz was killed in the Israeli War of Independence passed away today.
1981: Today brought a reminder that the Jews were not the only ones trying to leave the Soviet Union when it was reported that “a record 6,030 Armenians left the USSR during 1980.
1981(2ndof Shevat, 5741): Sixty-eight-year-old Columbia and University of Washington trained jurist Brigitte Marianne Levy Bodenheimer, the Berlin born of Ernest Levy and Zerline Levy who fled Nazi Germany was the wife of Edgar Bodenheimer who was a professor of law at UC Davis passed away today.
1982: NBC broadcast the first episode of “Fame” a television series based on the movie of the same name co-starring Valerie Landsburg.
1983(22ndof Tevet, 5743): Ninety-eight year old Ukrainian born American painter Ben Benn whose birth name was Benjamin Rosenberg, passed away today.
https://rogallery.com/Benn_ben/Benn-bio.htm
http://www.artnet.com/artists/ben-benn/
1983(22ndof Tevet, 5743): Ninety-four year old Rush Medical School graduate Dr. Edmund Jacobson, the Chicago born son of Iowa native Fannie Jacobson and Strasbourg native Morris Jacobson and husband of “the former Elizabeth Ruth Silberman with whom he had three children – Nancy, Ruth and Edmund, Jr. – who specialized in “tension control” and who was “known as the father of progressive relaxation” passed away today
1984: Birthdate of Ran Danker an Israeli actor, singer, and model who “is the son of Israeli actor Eli Danker. He has sung such songs as "אני אש" ("I am Fire"). He has also starred in the hit Israeli series HaShir Shelanu.”
1984(4thof Shevat, 5744): Eighty-four year old Yisrael Abuhatzeira, the Moroccan born Sephardic Rabbi known as the Baba Slali or Praying father passed away in Jerusalem.
http://www.ou.org/about/judaism/rabbis/babasali.htm
1985(14thof Tevet, 5745): Eighty-six year old journalist and author Eugene Lyons, the Uzlian born son of Nathan Lyons and Minnie Privin and WW I veteran whose time as a correspondent in the Soviet Union provided him with the opportunity to interview Stalin as well as the first hand view of that country that led to his disillusionment with it, passed away today.
https://spartacus-educational.com/USAlyonsE.htm
1986: Birthdate of Jerusalem native and Tel Aviv University graduate Daphni Leef, the daughter of composer Inam Leef “and the great-granddaughter of Israeli engineer Zalman Leef who has combined a career in film with social activism that included “the 2011 housing protests.”
1990(10thof Tevet, 5750): Asara B’Tevet
1990(10thof Tevet, 5750): Sixty-year-old journalist Rose Rehert Kushner lost her battle with the cancer, the disease against which she had waged a decades long professional and personal battle.
1990: In “The Russians Are Coming In Droves,” published today Barrymore L. Scherer described the “torrent of music that has pouring our way” in a variety of recordings including a live recording Shostakovich's weirdly disturbing Violin Concerto No. 1 (coupled with the Glazunov Concerto), both performed at Tel Aviv's Mann Auditorium in July 1988 by Itzhak Perlman with the Israel Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta (EMI CDC 49814; CD and cassette).
1993: Showing some flexibility in the crisis over 415 deported Palestinians, Israel agreed today to allow two Red Cross officials, including a doctor, to visit the exiles at their tent camp in southern Lebanon.
1995(6th of Shevat, 5755): Harry Golombek passed away.Born in 1911, Harry Golombek, was a British chess player and honorary grandmaster.
1995(6th of Shevat, 5755): Sixty-eight year old Economist Murray Newton Rothbard the co-founder of the Cato Institute passed away today. (As reported by David Stout)
http://austrian-library.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/books/Murray%20N%20Rothbard/memoriam.pdf
1995: Bruce Sundlun completed his term in office as Governor of Rhode Island.
1996: Birthdate of Stockton, CA native and big league pitcher Dean Kremer “the first Israel drafted by a Major League Baseball team.”
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/dean-kremer
1996: Debbie Friedman gave a sold-out concert at Carnegie Hall, commemorating twenty-five years as one of the world's most well-known contemporary Jewish musicians. “Known for her folksy and "singer-friendly" style, Friedman has recorded twenty albums that have sold over 200,000 copies. Friedman began recording on her own label in 1972, appealing largely to Reform Jews and those interested in Jewish Renewal. Now, her music is sung in synagogues across the
2000: “Signaling a continuing hard line against inflation, Israel's Prime Minister, Ehud Barak, nominated a senior central bank economist, David Klein, as the bank's next governor.”
2000: “President Clinton intervened in the peace talks between Israel and Syria today by presenting leaders of both countries with a seven-page ''working paper'' defining their differences over a deal that would return the Golan Heights to Syrian control.”
2001 (12th of Tevet, 5761): Seventy-two year old “Rabbi Yitzchok Singer, whose leadership of the historic Bialystoker Synagogue on the Lower East Side of Manhattan helped it thrive despite four decades of community change, passed away today at Beth Israel Medical Center.” (As reported by Nadine Brozan)
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/12/nyregion/rabbi-yitzchok-singer-72-led-bialystoker-synagogue.html
2001: Giving its stalled Middle Eastern peace effort one final push, the Clinton administration said today that it would send its top negotiator to the region this week for direct talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders
2001: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount by Gershom Gorenberg, To Redeem One Person is to Redeem the World:The Life of Frieda Fromm-ReichmannBy Gail A. Hornstein and Future Success by Robert B. Reich
2001: Among the 28 recipients of the Presidential Citizens Medals were
Jack Greenberg
In the courtroom and the classroom, Jack Greenberg has been a crusader for freedom and equality for more than half a century. Arguing 40 civil rights cases before the United States Supreme Court, including the historic Brown v. Board of Education, he helped break down the legal underpinnings of desegregation in America, and as a professor of law, an advocate for international human rights, and head of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, he has helped shape a more just society.
Anthony Lewis
Revered by colleagues and readers alike for his Pulitzer prize-winning reporting, profound insight, and broad understanding of constitutional law, Anthony Lewis has set the highest standard of journalistic ethics and excellence. A staunch defender of freedom of speech, individual rights, and the rule of law, he has been a clear and courageous voice for democracy and justice.
Robert Rubin
Leaving a brilliant career on Wall Street to serve as Director of the National Economic Council and Secretary of the Treasury, Robert Rubin played a pivotal role in creating
Elizabeth Taylor
A screen legend, Elizabeth Taylor has captured the hearts of audiences around the world, portraying some of the most memorable characters in film history. A dedicated leader in the fight against AIDS, she has focused national attention on this devastating disease. With grace, style, and compassion, she has reminded us of our responsibility to reach out to those in need.
Marion Wiesel
Convinced that our greatest hope for a just society is to teach tolerance and mutual respect, Marion Wiesel has worked with creativity and compassion to combat hatred and injustice. Whether writing a haunting documentary about the children of the Holocaust, translating her husband’s work, or helping young Ethiopians in
Rabbi Arthur Schneier
A Holocaust survivor, Rabbi Arthur Schneier has devoted a lifetime to overcoming the forces of hatred and intolerance. As an international envoy, Chairman of the Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad, and founder and president of the Appeal of Conscience Foundation, he has set an inspiring example of spiritual leadership by encouraging interfaith dialogue and intercultural understanding and promoting the cause of religious freedom around the world.
Eli J. Segal
As founder of AmeriCorps and the first Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation for National and Community Service, Eli Segal has galvanized the American spirit of community and helped us realize the dream of a vital civilian service corps. As President and Chief Executive Officer of the Welfare-to-Work Partnership, he has brought businesses and communities together to create opportunity for welfare recipients, enabling them to experience the power, dignity, and independence of work. Juan Andrade, Jr.
2002(23rd of Tevet, 5762): Actor and comedian Avery Schreiber passed away. Born in 1935 he was half of the comedy team of Burns and Schreiber.
2002:The captain of a ship seized last week by Israel as it smuggled tons of weapons said in jail-house interviews today that he had taken his orders from a weapons agent of Yasir Arafat's Palestinian Authority and that his deadly cargo was meant to arm Palestinians.
2003: Rabbi Arnold Resnicoff delivered the benediction for the Bipartisan Congressional Prayer Service that welcomed the members of the 108th congress before the ceremony to swear them in.
2003:Israeli soldiers killed three Palestinian gunmen today in a raid on a Gaza Strip refugee camp.
2004:Israeli and Libyan officials held a secret meeting in December and discussed the possibility of ties between the longstanding enemies, Israeli officials said today.
2005: While “The Palestinian presidential candidate Mahmoud Abbas wrapped up his campaign today with a call for renewed negotiations with Israel.
2006(7thof Tevet, 5766): Parashat Vayigash
2006: After three days of a medically induced coma and three operations to stop bleeding and reduce pressure that arose in his brain from a major stroke on Wednesday, “a scan of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's brain today showed "very slight signs of improvement" but no real change in his condition, which remains stable but critical, a hospital official said this evening.
2007: Teapacks or Tipex, an Israeli band formed in 1988 in Sdeort was ”selected by IBA's Eurovision Committee to represent Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest held in Helsinki, Finland”
2007: The Washington Post Sunday book section featured a review of Freud: Inventor of the Modern Mind by Peter D. Kramer.
2007: The Sunday Times (of London) reported that “Israel has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons.
2007: Under the title “Operation Screwball” about 350 Jews staged a noisy protest against Neturei Karta an anti-Israel religious group whose members - among them a Monsey rabbi - attended an Iranian conference that questioned the Holocaust.
2007: Two rabbis, two rabbinic pastors and one cantor were ordained by the Jewish Renewal Movement at the annual Ohalah convention in Boulder, Colorado.
2008: Sidney Blumenthal a former aide to President of the United States Bill Clinton and an advisor to Hillary Clinton during her Presidential campaign was arrested for driving while intoxicated in Nashua, New Hampshire. Later, he would plead guilty to a charge of misdemeanor DWI.
2008(29th of Shevat, 5768): Eighty-three year old Boris Lurie “who survived the Holocaust and then depicted its horrors while leading a confrontational movement called No! Art,” passed away today. (As reported by Colin Moynihan)
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2009: The Wall Street Journal reported that Cass Sunstein would be named to head the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA)
2009: At the Wise Auditorium on the campus of
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2009(11th of Tevet, 5769): Eighty-eight year old Yaakov Bania, a commander with Lehi who served with the IDF during the War for Independence and later wrote Hayalim Almonim (Anonymous Soldiers) passed away today.
2009: Israel suspended fighting today for three hours to permit humanitarian relief goods to reach civilians living at Gaza while Hamas declared that the group would not talk about a cease fire so long as Israel continued its “occupation.” In the Hamas lexicon, “occupation” is synonymous with the existence of the state of
2009: As the Madoff Scandal widens in scope, The New York Times reported that Sonja Kohn , leaving the firm she founded, Bank Medici, in the hands of Austrian regulators, who took it over last week. Embarrassment from investing heavily with Mr. Madoff could explain wanting to disappear from public view. But another theory widely repeated by those who know Mrs. Kohn is that she may be afraid of some particularly displeased investors: Russian oligarchs whose money made up a chunk of the $2.1 billion that Bank Medici invested with Mr. Madoff. It is a stunning reversal for the 60-year-old Mrs. Kohn. The daughter of Jewish refugees from
2010 (21 Tevet, 5770): The Israeli Government marks today a National Hebrew Day in honor of the 152nd birthday of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, the father of modern Hebrew.
2010: At the 14th Street Y opening night of “Laba’s Guests."
2010: At least 10 mortar shells fired from the Gaza Strip hit southern Israel.
2010: A breakthrough in the research of the Hebrew scriptures has shed new light on the period in which the Bible was written, testifying to Hebrew writing abilities as early as the 10th century BCE, the University of Haifa announced today
The deciphered text:
1' you shall not do [it], but worship the [Lord].
2' Judge the sla[ve] and the wid[ow] / Judge the orph[an]
3' [and] the stranger. [Pl]ead for the infant / plead for the po[or and]
4' the widow. Rehabilitate [the poor] at the hands of the king.
5' Protect the po[or and] the slave / [supp]ort the stranger.
Once this deciphering is received, Prof. Galil added, the inscription will become the earliest Hebrew inscription to be found, testifying to Hebrew writing abilities as early as the 10th century BCE. This stands opposed to the dating of the composition of the Bible in current research, which would not have recognized the possibility that the Bible or parts of it could have been written during this ancient period.
2011: Gold Medals are scheduled to be given to Israeli illustrators Asaf Hanuka and Koren Shadmi at The first of the three-part “Annual Exhibition: Illustrators 53,” the Sequential/Series and Uncommissioned Exhibit features works by leading contemporary illustrators worldwide.
2011: Rabbi Shira Stutman and musician Sheldon Low are scheduled to host 6thin The City Shabbat at the Historic 6th& I Synagogue in Washington, DC.
2011: The first Musical Shabbat of 2011 is scheduled to take place at Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, IA.
2011(2ndof Shevat, 5771): Israel Defense Forces soldier Sgt. Nadav Rotenberg, 20, was killed today and four were wounded in a violent encounter with Palestinian militants near the border between Israel and Gaza. The wounded soldiers were treated on the spot and then evacuated by helicopter to Soroka Hospital in Be'er Sheva. An IDF paratroopers patrol noticed a group of people armed and approaching the barrier separating Gaza from Israel, under cover or darkness and fog this evening, close to the Kibbutz Be'eri, according to the IDF. It is presumed that the armed group was planning to lay explosives at the foot of the barrier. IDF soldiers were taken by surprise and four of them were wounded, one of them mortally. The soldiers shot in the direction of the shooters, but it has not yet been ascertained whether the militants were hit by the IDF fire. The family of Rotenberg, 20, of Moshav Ramot Hashavim was informed of his death. One of the soldiers was seriously wounded. The other three soldiers were lightly wounded. A preliminary IDF investigation concluded that friendly-fire was responsible for the death of Sgt. Rotenberg and for the wounding of the other IDF soldiers. The IDF had apparently launched the mortars at the militants who were observed on the border, but for some unknown reason one of the mortars strayed and struck the soldiers.
2011: Israel’s departing intelligence chief said he believes Iran will not be able to build a nuclear weapon before 2015 at the earliest, Israeli news media reported today, in a revised and surprisingly upbeat assessment of Tehran’s nuclear capabilities.
2011: After premiering at the Telluride Film Festival, “The King’s Speech” a film about King George VI for which David Seidler won the Oscar for best original screenplay was released in London today.
2012 The National Laboratory for New Jewish Culture at the 14th Street Y is scheduled to present the premiere of the musical theater adaptation of the famous Israeli children's book "Hanna's Shabbat Dress," by Itzchak Damiel.
2012: The Impossible Spy is scheduled to be shown at Congregation Kerem Shalom in Concord, MA
2012: Shlomi Koriat is scheduled to perform at the Jerusalem Theatre where he will give a stand-up performance in which he tells about his childhood, his Moroccan family, coming to the big city, marriage, and more.
2012(12 of Tevet, 5772): Jews all over the world complete Bereshit– Chazak, Chazak,
2012: Approximately 200 protesters clashed with police in south Tel Aviv tonight during a protest against the municipality’s attempt dismantle a tent city for homeless families.
2012: Israel said today the online publication of thousands of its citizens' credit card details by a hacker claiming to be Saudi was comparable to terrorism, and vowed to hit back.
2013: The New Yorker published “The Lost Order,” a short story by award winning author Rivka Galcen the daughter of Israeli born Professor of Metrology Tzvi Gal-Chen.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/01/07/the-lost-order
2013: The Center for Jewish History with the Center for Traditional Music and Dance is scheduled to present: “A Vanishing Sound: Jewish Musical Resonance in Traditional Moldavian Dance--ca. 1800-1950”2013: “The Great Book Robbery” is scheduled to be shown at the Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival.
2013(25thof Tevet, 5773): Sixty-two year old Pulitzer Prize winning author Richard Ben Cramer passed away today. (As reported by Michael Schwirtz)
2013(25thof Tevet, 5773): Eighty-eight year old poet and New York Times editor Harvey Shapiro passed away today (As reported by Margalit Fox)
2013(25thof Tevet, 5773): Eighty-eight year old Holocaust survivor and Israeli historian Zvi Yavetz whose life you can read about in his autobiography My Czernowitz, passed away today.
2013(25thof Tevet, 5773): Pulitzer Prize winning architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable passed away today at the age of 91. (As reported by David Dunlap)
2013: “Life in Stills” is scheduled to be shown at the Washington Film Festival under the auspices of the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington.
2013: December 2012 witnessed a 400% spike in the number of terrorist attacks in the West Bank and Jerusalem compared to August, according to statistics published by the Shin Bet security service today.
2013: As lights flickered and falling tree branches batted down power lines across the country today, Israelis continued to brace themselves for a week of torrential rains and thunderous winds.
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=298689
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/163947
2014: “License to Live” and “The Grandmaster” are scheduled to be shown at the Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival.
2014(6thof Shevat, 5774): Ninety-one year old advertising executive Judy Protas whose career was tied to Levy’s Real Jewish Rye passed away today. (As reported by Margalit Fox)
2014: Two former employees of the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty - Former Executive Director David Cohen and Chief Financial Officer Herbert Friedman - were charged in the multimillion-dollar scam at the New York charity.”
2014: “JPMorgan Chase & Co., already beset by costly legal woes, will pay more than $2.5 billion for ignoring obvious warning signs of Bernard Madoff’s massive Ponzi scheme, authorities said today.”
2014: “The US ambassador to Israel said today that a framework proposal on all issues at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would be presented to both sides soon.”
2015: The Pears Institute for the study of Anti-Semitism is scheduled to host a lecture by Professor Nikolaus Wachsmann entitled “After Liberation – Legacies of the Nazi Concentration Camps”
2015: A preview screening of “Next to Her” is scheduled to take place in Jerusalem.
2015: A major snowstorm was scheduled to hit Jerusalem today.
2015(16thof Tevet, 5775): Eighty year old French cartoonist George David Wiliniski was among those murdered today when Moslem terrorists attacked Charlie Hedbo’s offices.
http://forward.com/articles/212218/jewish-cartoonist-georges-wolinski-among-the-dead/
2015: “Republican Sen. Rand Paul introduced a bill today that would immediately halt US aid to the Palestinians until they halt their effort to join the International Criminal Court to pursue war-crimes charges against Israel.”
2015: As “heavy rains and winds swept through Israel today, hail and snow were reported” in the northern part of the country this morning with Jerusalem bracing for worse weather in the overnight hours.”
2016: “Orphans of the Revolution” and “Bridge of Spies” are scheduled to be shown at the Jerusalem Cinematheque.
2016: “The remains of a 3,400-year-old Canaanite citadel, which were recently unearthed in the middle of the coastal city Nahariya, are to be preserved and incorporated in an apartment high-rise” are scheduled to be “presented today at a joint archaeological conference by the Northern Region of the IAA together with the University of Haifa.”
2016: Kobi Peretz, “one of Israel's most popular stars in the Mizrahi genre” is scheduled to appear at BB King Blues Club in NYC.
2017(9thof Tevet, 5777): Parashat Vayigash
2017: In Pendleton, Oregon, “Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master,” an exhibition that explores “the history of the early 20th-century international eugenics movement and the complicity of physicians and scientists in Nazi racial policies” is scheduled to come to a close today.
2017: After a month of performances “at the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre in Dublin” the curtain is scheduled to come down on “Big The Musical” with music by David Shire
2017: A rally “sponsored by the Love Not Hate organization” “was held today in Whitefish, Montana to show solidarity with the Jewish community which has been targeted by a neo-Nazi website.”
2017: “Zionist Union MK Shelly Yachimovich criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today for taking gifts from a “sugar daddy,” after police questioned the Israeli leader for allegedly accepting expensive cigars for years from Hollywood producer and businessman Arnon Milchan, as well as more goods from a second businessman.”
2017: This evening “Lt. Gen (res.) Benny Gantz, Lt. Gen (res.) Gabi Ashkenazi, Lt. Gen (res.) Dan Halutz, Lt. Gen (res.) Moshe Ya'alon and Lt. Gen (res.) Shaul Mofaz came together at Yedioth Ahronoth's Rishon Lezion offices to express their firm and unequivocal support of the IDF, its chief Eisenkot, and the military judicial system.
2018: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Enemies and Neighbors: Arabs and Jewish in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017 by Ian Black, Move: Putting America’s Infrastructure Back in the Lead by Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Three Floors Up by Eshkol Nevo
2018: ““The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” about a Jewish housewife in New York City in the late 1950s, won Best Television series at the 2018 Golden Globe awards” this evening.
2018: The Winter Break Promotion which has allowed Kids and Students to visit for free is scheduled tom come to an end at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center today.
2018: During an appearance on “Jake Tapper’s State of the Union” on CNN, Stephen Miller said of Donald Trump, "The president is a political genius... who took down the Bush dynasty, who took down the Clinton dynasty, who took down the entire media complex.”
2018: Today, “the Strategic Affairs Ministry published a list of organizations it says promote the boycott of Israel,” the members of which will be blocked from entering the country”
2018: The exhibition “Generation Wealth by Laruen Greenfield” featuring the works of photographer Lauren Greenfield, is scheduled to come to a close at New York’s ICP Museum.
2019: The Begin Center is scheduled to host a lecture Nobel Prize winner Yisrael Aumann marking the “40th anniversary since Menachem Begin was awarded the Nobel Prize.”
2019: Violinist Asi Matatius, , a protégé of Pinchas Zukerman, is scheduled to perform with the Jupiter Symphony Players in a concert at the Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church this evening.
2019: The Jerusalem Theatre is scheduled to host a performance of “Namer Havarborot” today.
2019(1stof Shevat, 5779): Rosh Chodesh Shevat;
2020: Jury selection is scheduled to begin today in the Harvey Weinstein criminal case.
January 7, 2020(10th of Tevet, 5780): Asara B’Tevet;
2010: Based on reports published yesterday, 19 people including three children have died during this “flu season” which is the worst in a decade.
2020: It was reported today that at the same time Iraqis and Iranians were protesting against American airstrikes, Jordanian were protesting again importing natural gas from Israel.
2020(10thof Tevet, 5780): Yahrtzeit for Judith (Levin) Rosenstein, simply known as Judy to the raft of family and friends who knew and loved her
2021: “The Contra Costa JCC, Congregation B’nai Shalom and Jewish Book Council are scheduled to present online “author Barry Gewen as he talks about The Inevitability of Tragedy his about book about former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger’s life and his role in Vietnam/Chile policies.
2021: East Bay Jewish film fest, Contra Costa JCC and several local congregations are scheduled to present “historian Fred Rosenbaum as he talks about movement for African Americans and Black-Jewish relations.”
2021: The Jewish Climate Action Network is scheduled to Present online a “Bentshmarking Webinar.”
2021: NFTY Northeast is scheduled to present is scheduled to host an “Open Space for Youth Professionals.”
2021: B’nai Jeshurun is scheduled to host “Cooking with Murray,” with Tova Cohen and Murray Berkowitz.
2021: The virtual “San Luis Obispo Jewish Film Festival” is scheduled to open tonight with a concert featuring violinist Brynn Albanese, Jazz guitarist Adam Levine and the SLO Symphony.”
2022: In a new terrace and a heated tent enclosure YJP is scheduled to present “First Friday Shabbat Dinner.”
2022: As COVID rips through the countryside Congregation B’nai Torah is scheduled to present online a “Shabbat Service of Hope and Healing.”
2022: Raphael Recanati International School at Reichman University is scheduled to host an “Infor Session On Campus” this morning for those living in Israel who want to study in English.
2023(14thof Tevet, 5783): Vayechi (“And he lived” as in "Jacob Lived…”)
47:28 - 50:26 Bereshit (Genesis) For more see https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
2023: In, Metairie, LA, Beth Israel is scheduled to host a PJ Library Pajama Havdalah with milk & cookies, a musical Havdalah, a make-your-own Shema pillowcase craft and a story.
2023: The Eden Tamir Center is scheduled to host “The Best of Chamber Music,” with Hila Zabari Peleg, oboe; Igal Levin, clarinet; Gal Varon, bassoon; Gal Guttman, horn and Batia Murvitz, piano
2023: Lockdown University are scheduled to host Professor David Peimer deliver a lecture on “Jean-Paul Sartre: Antisemite and Jew.”
2023: In Needham, MA, Temple Aliyah is scheduled to host Temple Tots and Gan Aliyah Preschool for the annual Pajama Havdalah party that includes Havdalah, pizza, drinks, and dancing featuring music and dance with little BEATS!
2023: As Jews digest their Shabbat meal, they can also digest the implications of the warnings is issued yesterday by “several of Israel’s most respected judicial figures, led by the renowned former chief justice Aharon Barak, against the judicial overhaul announced this week by Justice Minister Yariv Levin, saying it represented a grave threat to Israel’s democratic character and the rights of minorities.”