March 29
835 BCE (1st of Nisan, 2926): According to some Joash assumed the throne as King of Judah
1188: Emperor Frederick was convinced (both diplomatically and financially) by Moses bar Joseph Hakohen of Mayence to issue a decree declaring “that anyone who wounds a Jew shall have his arm cut off, he who slays a Jew shall die. This decree succeeded in preventing most of the excesses of the pervious crusades in the third crusade soon to follow.
1244(11th of Nisan, 5004): Rabbi Meir Abulafia Halevi (Ramah), noted Talmudist, masorete, and poet passed away today at Toledo, Spain at the age of 74. (As reported by Abraham Bloch)
1349: Emperor Charles IV “declared that the city of Speyer had no blame for” the riots in January, 1349 during which “the Jewish community was totally wiped out.”
1366: Coronation of Henry II as King of Castile and Leon. Henry denigrated his rival Peter by portraying him as a friend of the Jews; a portrayal that including calling him “King of the Jews.” Henry exploited Castilian animosity towards Jews by instigating pogroms and forcing them to convert to Christianity.
1516: Today, the government created the Venetian Ghetto which according to some was the oldest ghetto in the world and would survive until the arrival of Napoleon at the end of the 18th century.
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2016/mar/30/500-years-venetian-ghetto-jewish-italian-history
1519: Francesco II Gonzaga the ruler of the Italian city of Mantua who “stated in a grida (proclomiation) on March 2, 1515 that the recent popular uprising against the Jews of Mantua greatly displeased him” passed away today.
1559: Polish King Sigismund II granted the Jews a charter despite opposition of the local authorities at Przemysl.
1602: In Stoke-on-Trent, Vicar Thomas Lightfoot and his wife gave birth to clergyman John Lightfoot who authored several books on the Old Testament and its positive relationship to Jesus as well as such works as A Handful of Gleanings out of the Book of Exodus
1614(29th of Nisan, 5374): Rabbi Joshua Falk ben Alexander Katz of Lemberg author of Sefer Me’irat Einayim, passed away today.
1629: Birthdate of Alexis Mikhailovich, the second of the Romanov Czars. He reigned during the period marked by the Chmelnicki Uprising that decimated eastern European Jewry and the appearance of Sabbati Zvi. Considering the fact that we have records of the Czar ordering sharpshooters to protect Jews on their travels, sending Jewish merchants abroad to purchase wine and allowing Jews living in territory he acquired under the Treaty of Andrussev to continue living there as Russian citizens, he is considered to have been “kindly disposed toward the Jews.
1632: The Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed, returning Quebec to French control after the English had seized it in 1629. Return of the city to French control would keep Jews from settling in Quebec for another 130 years. The French gave up Canada to the British in 1763 at the end of the Seven Years War, known in America as The French and Indian War. Once the British were in control, Jews began to openly settle in the former French colony.
1664: Consecration of Giulio Rospigliosi to whom apostate Jew Giovanni Battista Jona, dedicated a Hebrew translation of the New Testament when he became Pope Clement IX
1714(13th of Nisan): Rabbi David ben Solomon Altaras, author of Kelalei ha-Dikduk passed away.
1719(9th of Nisan): In Venice, Rabbi Jacob Pardo of Ragusa and his wife gave birth to David Pardo who accepted the position of Chief Rabbi at Sarajevo in 1764 and passed away in Jerusalem in 1792.
1734(4thof Nisan, 5494): Rachel, the wife of David Cohen Delmonte and the mother of Isaac, Abigail, Grace and Hannah Delmonte passed away today in Savannah, GA.
1744(16th of Nisan): Rabbi Hayyim ben Jacob Abulafia of Smyrna, author of Ez ha-Hayyim passed away.
1766(19thof Nisan, 5526): Pesach shel Shabbat
1771(14thof Nisan, 5531): Ta’anit Bechorot; erev Pesach
1772: Birthdate of German native Rivka Mosheim, the wife of Itzig Behr and the father of Kussel, Bernhard and Abraham Behnrend.
1773: Pope Clement XIV confirmed the bull issued by Clement VII concerning “Jus Gazaka” which the Jews viewed positively since it dealt with their right to rent houses in the ghetto of Rome. “Another token of Pope Clement XIV’s benevolence toward the Jews was the confirmation today of the bull of Clement VIII concerning the Jus Gazaka, which was of very great importance to the Roman Jews.
1781: In Philadelphia, Leah Nathan and Jacob Naphtali Hart gave birth to Jacob Hart who passed a way in New Orleans.
1789: In Franklin Tree, Alice Alexander and Jacob Aaron gave birth to Miriam (Ann) Aaron, the wife of Abraham Franklin with whom she had twelve children.
1790(14thof Nisan, 5550): Ta'anit Bechorot; Erev Pesach
1790(14thof Nisan, 5550): Sixty-seven-year-old Mathias Bush, the native of Prague whose sons served with the American Army during the Revolution passed away today in Philadelphia.
1792: Gustav III of Sweden, during whose reign “the Jews of Stockholm invited Levi Hirsch” to serve as their rabbi was assassinated today.
1793: In a decree issued today, the restriction on Austrian Jews “farming rural property” was modified to allow for it on “the estates of noblemen” “and even then hereditary tenancy or acquisition was prohibited.”
1797(2ndof Nisan, 5557): Mrs. Rachel Marks, the wife of Levy Marks passed away today in New York City.
1800(3rdof Nisan, 5660): Parashat Viykra is read for the first time in the 19thcentury and for the last time during the Presidency of John Adams.
1801(15th of Nisan, 5561): Pesach is observed for the first time during the Presidency of Thomas Jefferson.
1804(17thof Nisan, 5564): Third Day of Pesach
1812(16thof Nisan, 5572): Second Day of Pesach; first day of the Omer.
1812(16thof Nisan, 5572): Seventy-six-year-old Esther Hannah Magood Montefiore, the Livorno, Italy born daughter of Massahod (Modjesta) Raccah-Racha, a “Moorish merchant,’ and wife of Moses Vita-Haim Montefiore
1814: The King of Denmark officially allowed Jews to find employment in all professions and makes racial and religious discrimination punishable by law.
1819: In Moravia, Rabbi Leo Wise, a schoolteacher and his wife gave birth to Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, one of America's most influential Jewish leaders during the 19th Century. His major achievements were the establishment of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations in 1873 and the creation of Central Conference of American Rabbis in 1889. This brief summary can in no way do justice to the life a man who had such an impact on the American Jewish community.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/isaac-mayer-wise
1819: In Larraine, France Simon and Pauline Levy gave birth to Kalmus Calmann Levy, “the founder of Calmann-Lévy, one of the oldest French publishing houses.”
1821: Birthdate of engraver and publisher Frank Leslie whose Illustrated Newspaper carried pictures of Jewish events including a Hebrew Purim Ball and Chanukah Celebration.
1824: Birthdate of Amsterdam native David Zacharias Baruch, the son of Zacharias Baruch, the husband of Lea Nabarro and the father of Gratia, Rebecca, Clara, Izaak and Abraham Baruch.
1829: Six days after he had passed away, 43 year old Joel Abrahams was buried today at the “Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.”
1832: Birthdate of Austrian philosopher Theodore Gomperz, the native of Brno, who “was elected a member of the Academy of Science, received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy honoris causa from the university of Königsberg, and Doctor of Literature from the universities of Dublin and Cambridge.”
1832: Birthdate of Offenbach native Leopold Oppenheim, the husband of Josephine Barrow Montefiore.
1833: As a result of the damage sustained to its building in 1831 during a hurricane, a new synagogue was consecrated by Kaal Koadosh Nidhl Israel on Barbados.
1840: In Essingen, Germany, Sarah Adler and Rabbi Joseph Gabriel Adler gave birth to Rabbi Immanuel Manchem Adler, the husband of Judith Adler and father of Pinchas Adler.
1842(18thof Nisan, 5602): Fourth day of Pesach celebrated one day after the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra had performed its first concert.
1848: In Great Britain, Samuel Joseph Rubinstein married a daughter of David Moses Dyte, a London quill merchant.
1848: A decree issued today granted civil rights to the Jews of Alessandria, Italy which allowed to serve in the army and hold government jobs.
1849: Adolphus Alexander married Violet Abrahams today at the Pilgrim Street Synagogue in Liverpool, England.
1849: Lewis Nathan married Regina Kisch today at the Great Synagogue.
1850(16thof Nisan, 5610): Second Day of Pesach as California prepares to enter the Union following the adoption of the Compromise of 1850.
1852(9thof Nisan, 5612): Eighty-four-year-old Catherine Manuel, the London born daughter of David Manuel and the wife of Levy Solomons whom she married in 1801 passed away today New York City.
1853: Birthdate of Moravia native Moritz Gunwald who passed away in London after which he was buried at the Edmonton Federation Cemetery.
1855: In what became the Czech Republic, Josef Pick, he son of “Markus and Elisabeth Pick” and Eleanor Pick gave birth to Siegfried Pick
1858(14th of Nisan): Jews who had served in the Russian army received the right of residence in the province of Abo-Bjorneborg, Finland upon its annexation today.
1859: In New Orleans Jacob Osoro DeCastro and Hannah Haim DeSola DeCastro gave birth to Zippporah Alice DeCastro Lazaron, the husband of Atlanta, GA native Samuel Louis Lazaron and the mother of Savannah, GA native Samuel Lazaron, the Reform Rabbi who led Baltimore Hebrew Congregation for three decades who eventually gave up his post because of anti-Zionist views.
1859: A new lodge of the Sons of Israel which was the first one outside of New York City was “instituted” today.
1860: Todays "Personal" column reported that “The Cincinnati papers notice the arrival in that city of Mr. Israel J. Benjamin, author of Eight Years in Asia and Africa -- a Jew, who is making the tour of North America to examine the condition of his race. His design is to cross the Plains, spend a short time in the Rocky Mountains, and thence proceed through California to Asia.
1860: In Donaldsonville, LA, Michael Blum and Louise Meyer gave birth to Sam Blum, a product of the New Orleans public school and businessman who was President of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association for six years and “trustee of the Touro Synagogue for several years.”
1861(18thof Nisan, 5621): Fourth Day of Pesach
1861: Opening night at the Winter Garden for “The Hebrew Son” a play designed to appeal to the Jews in the audience.
1862: “After the repeal of the majority legal restrictions on Jewish citizens, today the Israelitische Kultusverein (literal: Israelite Cultus Society) was founded by 12 members.”
1862: Birthdate of Swiss born American portrait painter whose work includes a painting of Isaac Newton Seligman that has disappeared and one of his five year old son Joseph L. Seligman which was done in 1891 and first exhibited in January of 1892.
1863: A column published today entitled “New From Fortress Monroe” reported that two Jews were arrested while on board the SS Thomas A. Morgan which was making her trip from this Fortress Monroe, VA to Yorktown, VA. The Jews had “a lot of contraband goods” in their possession. [The implication of the article is that the Jews were trading with the Rebel forces further upriver.
1863: The New York Times reported that Colonel Crane and a group of Union soldiers captured a schooner towing a lighter filled with cotton in Florida. Of the 12 men aboard the schooner, 10 were rebels while the others were a man named Titus from Rhode Island and “a Jew from New York named J. Cohen.” [The correspondent does not say how he ascertained that Cohen was a Jew or why his was the only one whose religion was mentioned.]
1864: In Alsfeld, German Marianne Stern and Abraham Rothschild gave birth to Henriette Rothschild, the wife of Joseph Weihl and the mother of Adolf and Ernst Weihl.
1866(22nd of Adar II, 5646): Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch passed away. Born in 1789, Rabbi Menachem Mendel was the grandson of the first Chabad Rebbe and was the third Chabad Lubavitch Rebbe. "He was also known as the Tzemach Tzedek (Righteous Sprout), the name for a voluminous compendium of Jewish halachah that he authored. He also authored Derech Mitzvotecha (Way of Your Commandments), a mystical exposition of Jewish law." According to some sources, the seventh Lubavitch Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson was named in honor of his illustrious predecessor. This brief summary can in no way do justice to the life and writing of this illustrious sage.
1867: “Affairs In Illinois” published today reported on the victimization of the insurance companies by a series of fraudulent claims. The article concludes by stating “And the fire insurance companies have been so frequently victimized by Jews practicing arson, that many of them are declining Israelitish risks.’ The article does not contain any details about these Jewish arsons.
1867: “The Purim Ball” published today reported that this event is different from the other balls that make up the New York Social Season. Unlike the other festivities, the Purim Ball is rooted in the national traditions of the Jews and calls for form of costume and masquerade that makes it a unique event.
1868: Birthdate of Nova Scotia native and Congressman from New Jersey’s 5thDistrict Charles Aubrey who during his career as minister and evangelist had delivered a sermon on “The New American” said “The Jews have got your theatres and most of your banks. They will soon hold you in the hollow of their hand. Most have no religion at all. What can we do with them? I say, let them come to the Madison Avenue Baptist Church. There was one Jew would have received here – Jesus Christ. There was another – Paul.”
1869(17thof Nisan, 5629): Third Day of Pesach
1870: Philip Magnus married Kate Emanuel today.
1873(1st of Nisan, 5633): Rosh Chodesh Nisan
1875: Two days after she had passed away, the former Caroline Simon, a native of Jamaica and the wife of Phineas Abraham with whom she had had eight children was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1875: It was reported today that there is a dispute among the members of New York’s Beth-El congregation over how to deal with the remains of those buried at the two cemeteries owned by the congregation. Beth-El was formed by a merger of Anshei Chesed (Norfolk Street Synagogue) and Adas Jeshurun which is why Beth-El has two cemeteries.
1877(15th of Nissan, 5637): First Day of Pesach
1878: Birthdate of Albert Gumm, the Indiana native who gained fame as a songwriter under the name of Albert Von Tilzer, the author of “Take Me Out To The Ballgame.”
1880: Myer Stern represented the Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum Society at today’s meeting of the New York State Board of Charities meeting.
1880(17thof Nisan, 5640): Third Day of Pesach
1880(17thof Nisan, 5640): Sixty-year old Heinrich Bernhard Oppenheim, the scion of a Jewish banking family who served as editor of the liberal Die Reform (The Reform) who served in the German Reichstag.
1880: Birthdate of pianist Rosina Lhévinne whom Juilliard president Peter Mennin called "quite simply one of the greatest teachers of this century." Born in Kiev, she began her piano studies at age six and entered the Moscow Conservatory at age nine. Over the next nine years, she perfected her piano technique, graduating in 1898 with the school's gold medal. Among her classmates at the Conservatory were Sergei Rachmaninoff and Josef Lhévinne, whom Rosina married after her graduation. After getting married, Lhévinne abandoned her fledging solo performance career in order to keep her husband, also an accomplished pianist, in the spotlight. However, she did not abandon the performance circuit, often playing two-piano concerts with her husband. The Lhévinnes toured the U.S. for the first time in 1907, and moved permanently to New York immediately after World War I. In 1924, they joined the faculty of the newly established Juilliard Graduate School, where they shared a studio. After Josef Lhévinne's death in 1944, Rosina continued to teach at Juilliard, where her students included such promising musicians as Van Cliburn, David Bar-Ilan, James Levine, and Arthur Gold. As her students made their mark in national and international piano competitions, Lhévinne's fame grew. However, it was only in 1956, at the age of seventy-six, that Lhévinne resumed her own solo piano career. Her first concert was with the Aspen Festival Orchestra; she went on to perform with orchestras around the country. In 1963, she appeared in four performances with the New York Philharmonic, under Leonard Bernstein's direction. Despite a busy performance schedule, Lhévinne continued to teach at Juilliard until she passed her ninety-sixth birthday.
1880: In Kempen, Rabbi Adolph Moses Radin and his wife gave birth to American legal scholar Max Radin.
http://texts.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb9g5008vb&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=div00006&toc.id=
1881: In Leadville, CO a fire broke out in the Pioneer Salon which spread to the next door liquor business owned by the Schloss family.
1882: Birthdate of Riga native and NYU trained attorney Dr. Joseph Kahn, the high school teacher, lecturer on philosophy and partner in the firm of Kahn and Zorn, who was New York State Supreme Court referee, author of books on accounting and flying and mountain climbing enthusiast.
1882: A two-day Pogrom in the largely Jewish town of Balta (Russia) comes to an end leaving nearly half of the homes and shops in ruins.
1882: “Near Bolanda, Mississippi,” the former Venola Rutledge and Thomas Braxton Rankin gave birth to sixteen term Mississippi Congressman John Elliott Rankin the noted bigot who accused Einstein of being a Communist and while speaking on the floor of the House called Walter Winchell “the little kike.” (Editor’s note - his record against Blacks was far worse)
1883: In Cleveland, OH, Emma Scheuer and Henry Blahd gave birth to Cornell, Western Reserved and University of Strasburg trained physician and surgeon Moses Emmett Blahd, the husband of Rae Lichtenstader and a Captain in the Medical Corps of the U.S. Arym who was the chief surgeon of Mt. Sinai Hospital in Cleveland.
1884: Mrs. Max Rosenberg claimed that on this day her husband forced her to pack her trunk, leave their New York apartment and stopped providing her with financial support. (Rosenberg would subsequently deny these claims, citing proof that she left of her own volition, that he continued to support her, that she still loved him and that the cause of their problems was that he was Jewish – a fact resented by her gentile father.)
1886: Birthdate of Newark, NJ native and NYU trained journalist Morris Kramer an officer of the Jewish Aid Society in Brooklyn and member of the editorial staff of the Jewish Daily News.
1888(17thof Nisan, 5648): Third Day of Pesach and on the Jewish calendar yahrtzeit of Rabbi Reuben Hoseshke Kat of Prague
1887: In Leadville, CO, Simon Schloss “was a member the committee of arrangements for the eighth annual Purim Masque Ball held at the Tabor Opera House today
1888(16thof Nisan, 5648): Second Day of Pesach; 1st day of the Omer
1888: Five days after he had passed away, Abraham Hammond Solomon was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1888(16thof Nisan, 5648): Seventy-four year old composer and pianist Charles-Valentin Alkan whose “Op. 31 set of Préludes includes a number of pieces based on Jewish subjects, including some titled Prière (Prayer), one preceded by a quote from the Song of Songs, and another titled Ancienne mélodie de la synagogue (Old synagogue melody)
http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Lib/Alkan-Charles.htm
1890(8th of Nisan, 5650): Shabbat HaGadol
1890: Birthdate of daughter Pauline Herzl, daughter of Theodor Herzl who passed away in 1930.
1890: “Emanuel Bernheimer” published today listed the philanthropies and charities supported by the founder Lion Brewery including Mount Sinai Hospital, the Hebrew Orphan Asylum and the Montefiore Home for the Chronic Invalids.
1890: It was reported today that in St. Petersburg, university students have presented Professor Menelieff with demands that entrance fees be reduced and the restrictions against Jewish admission be removed.
1890(8th of Nisan, 5650): Forty-five year old Morris Eising, a Jewish immigrant from German was found dead in his boarding house at West 24th Street.
1891: Following the appointment of the Grand Duke Sergei as Governor of Moscow, the Jews found out today about the plan to expel 20,000 of them from the city.
1892: The Russian government published the edict that expelled 14,000 Jews from Moscow. Two thirds of Moscow’s Jewry were disposed and violently removed to the Pale of Settlement.
1892(1st of Nisan 5652): Rosh Chodesh Nisan
1892: Three days after she had passed away, the former Emily Bethiah Meikleham, the widow of Joseph Cohen was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1892(1st of Nisan 5652): Rabbi Elimelech Szapira of Grodzhisk passed away. Born in 1832, he “was the leading Hasidic rebbe of his time in Poland. He was a chosid (follower) of the Rizhiner Rebbe. After the death of his father, the Sorof of Mogelnica, he assumed leadership of the chasidim, who eventually numbered ten thousand. His sons-in-law were the Kozhnitser Rebbe and Rebbe Osher the Second of Stolin-Karlin.”
1893: In Boston, Judge Ely dismissed charges against Tavia Angus, the defendant charged by the police with illegally possessing wine and liquor which his co-religionists from Adat Israel claimed he was holding for them and which would be distributed prior to Passover which begins at sundown on March 31. The Jews will now be able to get their wine and brandy back from the police in time for the first Seder.
1893: “New Immigration Commissioner” published today described Secretary of Treasury John G. Carlisle’s appointment of Joseph H. Senner as the Commissioner of Immigration at New York. (Carlisle was not Jewish; Senner was)
1894: Birthdate of Bohemia born painter turned photographer Franz F. Planer the Oscar award nominated cinematographer whose works spanned from the big outdoor western “The Big Country” to the Manhattan stylishness of “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”.
http://www.cinematographers.nl/GreatDoPh/planer.htm
http://www.filmreference.com/Writers-and-Production-Artists-Ni-Po/Planer-Franz.html
1895: “Grand Cake Walk For Charity” published today described the fund raiser sponsored by the Monte Relief Society which began with an address by the founder and President Sofia Monte-Loebinger. The society which is named for its founder was founded by a handful of Jewesses and provides financial aid to the city’s destitute.
1895(4th of Nisan, 5655): Bernhard Bernhard, a benefactor to many Jewish charities including the Hebrew Benevolent Association, passed away today at his home on East 62nd Street in New York leaving behind two children
1896(15th of Nisan, 5656): First Day of Pesach
1896(15th of Nisan, 5656): The New York Times reported that “Pesach, or the Feast of the Passover, with which the Israelites celebrate the deliverance of the Jews from bondage in Egypt, was inaugurated at sundown yesterday. The feast continues eight consecutive days and will close with the setting of the sun next Saturday.”
1896(15thof Nisan, 5656): Fifty-two year old Hungarian born revolutionary Leó Frankel who took part in the Paris Commune of 1871 passed away today.
1896: In Amsterdam, “Abraham Jessurun Cardozo and Marie Serlui, gave birth David Abraham Jessurun Cardoza, the assistant rabbi at New York’s Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue and senior rabbi at Philadelphia’s Congregation Mikveh Israel who in 1953 became the first rabbi to publicly hold High Holiday services in Spain since the expulsion in 1492,
1896: It was reported today that Lucien L. Bonheur is chairman of the committee planning the 19th annual Strawberry Festival sponsored by the Young Men’s Hebrew Association. He is being assisted by Isaac Newton Lewis, Falk Younker, Levi Hershfield, Edwin M. Schwartz and Dr. Louis S. Rosenthal. Percival S. Menken is President of the Association.
1897: “Millions For Charity” published today described a “stupendous project” to be underwritten by the Baron de Hirsch Fund that will “relieve the congested district of” New York’s “east side by building homes and establishing industries in the suburbs.”
1897(25thof Adar II, 5657): Sixty-six year old David Weinberg, a retired furrier, passed away at his home leaving behind a widow and four children in New York.
1897(25thof Adar II, 5657): Forty-nine year old Louis Israel, “proprietor of the one of the largest livery stables in Brooklyn” passed away today. A native of Brooklyn, he was President of the Hebrew Benevolent Society and a member of the Independent Order of the Free Sons of Israel, the King Solomon Lodge and the B’nai Sholom Benefit Society.
1898(6th of Nisan, 5658): Rabbi Emanuel Schwab who was 101 years old passed away today in New York City. A native of Frankfort on Main he came to the United States 53 years ago where he served as rabbi of congregations at Schenectady, NY and Bridgeport, Conn. He was preceded in death by his wife the former Miss Sophie Hirsch whom he had married in 1862.
1899: Baroness Hirsch the widow of the late Jewish philanthropist is reportedly to be critically ill.
1899: The Jewish Colonial Bank in London begins to accept subscriptions.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Zionism/jct.html
1900: The American Israelite announced the death of Isaac Mayer Wise.
1900: In Belfast, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Elliot “gave birth” to a “stillborn” child today.
1901: The United Mine Workers, whose predecessors had included The National Federation of Miners led by its President Samuel Gompers, “obtained recognition by the anthracite mines in Pennsylvania and called off a strike that had been planned for April 1.”
1902(20thof Adar II, 5662): Parashat Tzav; Shabbat Parah
1902: “Call for Information” published today described a resolution introduced in the House of Representatives directing the Secretary of State “to inform this House whether American citizens of the Jewish religious faith, holding passports issued by” the United States “government are barred or excluded from entering the territory of the Empire Russia and whether the Russian Government has made or is making any discrimination between citizens of the United States, of different religious faith or persuasion visiting or attempting to visit Russia…”
1903: Herzl meets with the Belgian born barrister Leon Constant Ghislain Carton de Wiart now living in Egypt. Herzl tells him that “We will give up the word 'Charter' but not the thing itself."
1903: Birthdate of Russian born American and Radcliffe trained political scientist who worked for such luminaries as Governor Herbert H. Lehman and General Lucius D. Clay.
1904: Eleven-year-old Harry Serkin was given five cents by an unknown man to delivered a parchel to the office of the Jewish Morning Journal at 228 Madison Street which turned out to be a box filled with kerosene soaked sawdust and a piece of zinc piping filled with powdered carbon and with a smoldering fuse all of which was taken to the Madison Street Police Station.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1904/03/30/118944620.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1905: At 07:00 today Dorothy Levitt “departed from the De-Dion showroom in Great Marlborough Street London and arrived at the Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool at 18:10, having completed the 205 miles in 11 hours” thus establishing “a new record for the longest drive achieved by a lady driver.”
1906: As of today, Attorney General Julius M. Mayer is President of the Jewish Protectory and Aid Society, Jesse Straus is the Secretary and Henry Solomon and Mortimer L. Schiff are Vice Presidents.
1907(14th of Nisan, 5667): On Ellis Island, Rabbi Adolph Radin joined 180 Jewish immigrants in a Seder this evening which marked their first Passover in the United States.
1907: “A meeting convened by Zionists was held” today “at the Hotel Continental in Vienna to protest” the “atrocities” being committed against the Jews in Romania.
1907: As of today, 140,000 soldiers had been recruited to help quell the Romanian Peasant Revolt. The peasants were revolting against the Christian nobles who were the landowners responsible for their exploitation. An untold number of Jews fell victim to the peasants because they were the one who collected the rents. Once again, a dispute between groups of Christians results in dead Jews.
1908: Late tonight, the New York City Police expressed the opinion that “Selig Silverstein (also known as Selig Cohen), a Russian-born cloak maker and anarchist living on Van Brunt Street in Brooklyn, who was attending the Socialist Conference of the Unemployed and who had thrown “a bomb into a group in in Union Square” was acting alone in the manner of “a sickly fanatic” and not as a participate in “a deliberate plot.”
1909: Birthdate of Alfred A. Tananbaum, one of three brothers who built Yonkers Raceway into a leading harness track
1909: It was reported today that the turnout for the election of the Executive Committee which “will look after all Jewish community interests” was so heavy that it took two days to count the ballots and that the “Orthodox and liberal elements are both represented on the committee of twenty-five.”
1910: Eugène-Melchior, vicomte de Vogüé a 19th century French archaeologist and author “who is known for his architectural studies of Jerusalem, the Temple Mount and the surrounding areas. (For more see Digging Through The Bible by Richard A. Freund)
1911: Birthdate of Paris native and Sorbonne attendee Dr. Nathan Edlemean, the CCNY undergrad and hold of a Ph.D. from Columbia, who taught French at two colleges and wrote Attitudes of 17th Century France Toward the Middle Ages.
1912: By decree of the King of Italy, Jews in Tripoli can now organize as a community.
1912: Painter and Professor Max Liebermann received an honorary Doctor Philosophy degree for the University of Berlin.
1912(11thof Nisan, 5672): Sixty-eight-year-old “communal worker,” Tobias Weinschenker passed away today in Chicago.
1912(11thof Nisan, 5672): Fifty-seven-year-old merchant Jacques Loeb passed away in Montgomery, Alabama.
1913: Birthdate of Fivel Feldman, the Brooklyn native gained fames as comedian Phil Foster who gained lasting fame as Frank De Fazio on the 1970’s sitcom “Laverne and Shirley.”
1913: It was reported today that “there was a debate concerning Shechitah” “in the Landtag of Darmstadt, the capital city of the Duchy of Hesse” where, as expected the anti-Semites attacked the Jewish form of slaughter as being inhumane but unexpectedly defenders of the practice “were found in the Catholic party.”
1913(20thof Adar II, 5673): Shabbat Parah
1913(20thof Adar II, 5673): New York “communal worker” David H. Lieberman passed away today.
1913: Birthdate of Hyman Bloom. Born into an orthodox Jewish family in southern he emigrated to the United States with his family in 1920, at the age of seven. He lived for most of his life in Boston, Massachusetts and at a young age planned to become a rabbi, but his family could not find a suitable teacher. Bloom and Jack Levine, another Jewish painter from Boston, received scholarships in the fine arts given by the famous Harvard art professor Denman Ross. Bloom, along with Levine and another painter, Karl Zerbe, eventually became associated with a style named Boston Expressionism. He passed away in 2009.
1914(2ndof Nisan, 5674): Fifty-seven-year-old Rosa Stix, the Cincinnati born daughter of Yetta Hackes and Louis Stix nd the wife of Carl Iglauer with whom he had two children – Zilah and Florence—passed away today.
1914: In Mulhouse, Baruch Kahn and Constance Kenendel Lang gave birth to Louis Joseph Kahn.
1915: Emanuel Beckerman, an interpreter in the Bronx Municipal Court was pleased to learn today that the ten pounds of matzoth that he had shipped to Rabbi Bernard Pressen for his Seder in Berlin had arrived in Amsterdam and should have made it to Berlin in time for the Seder. Beckerman had met Pressen in 1907 did not want his co-religionist to go with unleavened bread because the Kaiser’s government had banned using wheat to make matzoth.
1915: “More than 300 Jewish soldiers and sailors along with Admiral Charles Sigsbee who had commanded the Battleship Maine, were the guests tonight at a Seder hosted by the Army and Navy Y.M.H.A.
1915(14th of Nisan, 5675): Ninety men and one hundred and five women ranging in age from 67 to 110 held a Seder at the Home of the Daughters of Jacob in New York City. Nissen Rosen, 105 years old, will sit at one end of the table where he will face 110 year old Ethel Rosenstein. It will be a double celebration for Hannah Perlaeur who was born on the night of the Seder 95 years ago.
1915(14th of Nisan, 5675): One hundred Jews who had recently arrived from Jerusalem were among those who participated at a Seder at the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society’s home on Broadway.
1915(14th of Nisan, 5675): Dr. M.J. Leff conducted a Seder for the staff at the Beth Israel Hospital in New York City.
1915: As Jews ran their last errands in preparation for the Seder at Ostrolenka, Russia, German planes began bombing the city with what appeared to be a decision by “the enemy to raze the city to its foundations.”
1915: It was reported today that Judge Nathaniel E. Harris, the governor-elect of Georgia believes “the bitterness against Leo Frank has largely passed away and there are now many who take the view that his conviction was a miscarriage of justice” while “on the other hand, there are plenty of them who do not.”
1916: Alexsei Brusilov, who as the Chief of Staff approved the appointment of Jewish Chaplains to serve in the Russian Army “was given command of the Southwest Front.”
1916: Bronx Borough President Douglas Mathewson and Bronx County Register were among the thousands of people who attended “Bronx Night” at the Jewish Bazar being held at the Grand Central Palace.
1916: Three days after he had passed away, 25 year old Corporal George Jessel Issacs, the “son of Harry and Mria Isaacs” was buried today at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery” in London.
1917: Jacob Schiff, Adolph Lewisohn and Oscar S. Straus are expected to attend the meeting of the Jewish League of American Patriots at the Broadway offices of Samuel Untermyer where plans will be made “to spread the movement” throughout the United States.
1917: “Hadassah…announced” today “that $30,000 has been raised for a medical until which it” will “establish in Palestine at the earliest possible moment to combat typhus and other plagues now reported to be prevalent in that country.”
1917: “The Independent Order of Free Sons of Israel” which has eighty-one lodges throughout the United States is scheduled to “hold a patriotic mass meeting” tonight at the Floral Garden so “that the Jews of Greater New York may give joint public expression of their loyalty and devotion to the flag.”
1917: “President Wilson sent a telegram to Julius Rosenwald today endorsing the raising of a $10,000,000 fund for the relief of Jewish war sufferers.”
1918(16thof Nisan, 5678): Second Day of Pesach
1918: Captain Albala of the Serbian Commission to the United States, Professor Mordecai M. Kaplan, Sol M. Sroock and Colonel Maurice Simmons are scheduled to be speakers tonight at “a public celebration of Passover” at the Hebrew Technical School for Girls to which young Jewish service men have been invited
1918: In The Hague, “the Central Jewish Aid Committee sent 540,000 marks to Poland for the relief of Jewish communities and institutions.”
1918(16thof Nisan, 5678): Second day of Pesach
1918(16thof Nisan, 5678): Eighty-year-old Assur Henry Moses the Secretary of the Assoication for the Oral Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb from 1870 to 1915 and the father of singer Alice Moses who used the stage name Alice Mandeville passed away today.
1919: “The centenary of the birth of the late Dr. Isaac M. Wise” is scheduled to “be celebrated by the Jews of America” today according to Rabbi Joseph Silverman.
1919: The celebration of the ceremony of Conferring Rabbinical Degrees on five students at The Yeshiva began today with services being held in orthodox synagogues throughout Greater New York under the direction of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis.
1920: In the House of Commons, “Lieut.-Colonel Malone asked the Home Secretary whether his attention has been called to an anonymous booklet recently issued called "The Jewish Peril"; whether he is aware that this pamphlet is a mutilation of an original Russian anti-Semitic document produced with a view to injuring the entente with Great Britain; that as now published it is intended to arouse anti-Semitic feeling in this country; and whether he will take steps to procure the suppression of this publication?” to which the Home Secretary, Edward Shortt,replied “I understand that the booklet "The Jewish Peril" is an English translation of a book published in Russian in 1905 by Serge Nilus. This book went through three or four editions. I am not aware that the pamphlet is a mutilation of the book nor do I know what the object of Serge Nilus was in publishing his work. I fear that the law confers no powers upon me to procure the suppression of the publication.”
1921: Birthdate of Bronx native Abraham H. Baum, who would lead the raid commanded by Blood and Guts Patton to rescue his son-in-law from a German POW camp.
1921: Winston Churchill, British Colonial Secretary, is greeted by 10,000 Jews on Mt. Scopus in Palestine. Both the Chief Sephardic and Ashkenazic Rabbis were in attendance. They gave him a Sefer Torah. Churchill planted a tree on the future site of Hebrew University and spoke in support of the Zionist endeavors in Palestine.
1921: Birthdate of Howard “Howie” Leonard and Lenny Rader, twin brothers who played basketball for LIU and then went to careers with the pros.
https://www.basketball-reference.com/nbl/players/r/raderho01n.html
https://www.basketball-reference.com/nbl/players/r/raderle01n.html
1921: It was reported today that the late Julia Wormser Seligman was a native of San Francisco who was the only daughter of the late Isidore Wormser from whom she inherited two million dollars.
1922:Edwin J. O'Malley, Commissioner of the Department of Public Markets, said today in a statement that "it is an outrage the prices that are not charged by the retail kosher butchers or fresh killed poultry."
1923(12th of Nisan, 5683): Fast of the First Born observed because the 14th of Nisan falls on Shabbat.
1923: Birthdate of Jack David Dunitz the Glasgow born British chemist and widely known chemical crystallographer who was a Professor of Chemical Crystallography at the ETH Zurich from 1957 until his official retirement in 1990 and is the husband of Barbara Steuer as well as the father of Marguerite and Julia Gabrielle Steuer.
1924(23rdof Adar II, 5684) Parashat Shmini; Shabbat Parah
1924: “" Temple Topics of 1924," the musical revue of the Junior Society of Temple Emanu-El, given for charity, was received with much enthusiasm tonight by an audience that filled the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria. Howard J. Green wrote the book and lyrics, and the music was by Nelson Greenhut, Angus Raphael and Donald Samuels. Miss May Leslie directed the production.”
1925: Joel Teitelbaum “appointed chief rabbi of Carei.
1925: While visiting Palestine, Lord Balfour, of Balfour Declaration fame, “reads the lessons in the Anglican Cathedral of St. George.”
1926(14thof Nisan, 5686): Ta’anit Bechorot; Erev Pesach
1926: An exhibit of “valuable literary material” including a letter signed by Moses Maimonides, a little booklet that is the “only known fragment of the great Book Precepts of Yaliach” and “a wealth of material relating to the synagogue at Kai Fung-fu” that illustrates “Jewish life in Oriental countries” opened today at the New York Public Library where Dr. Joshua Block is chief of the Jewish Division.
1926: In Kecskemét, Hungary, Solomon and Margaret Sandberg who were murdered in 1944 gave birth to Gusztáv Sandberg who gained fame as Dachau survivor and Israeli economist Moshe Sanbar.
1926: Rabbis from more than fifty congregations throughout New York City that included representatives of liberal, reform, conservative and orthodox synagogues “have joined in signing a proclamation calling upon the Jews of New York to do their share toward answering the call of suffering millions of their destitute co-religions in Eastern Europe.
1927: Birthdate of Martin Fleischmann. A chemist at the University of Utah, Fleischmann (and his partner Stanley Pons) claimed to have discovered Cold Fusion in 1989.
1927(25th of Adar II, 5687): Eight-six-year-old Luigi Luzzatti, the second Jew to serve as Prime Minister of Italy passed away today.
1928: “Several thousand Jews, selected because of their poverty to receive enough free matzoths for the coming Passover holidays, obtained their gifts the unleavened today thanks to the generosity of the Stuhmer Baking Company of Brooklyn which donated 20,000 pounds of food products to the poor Jews of” New York City.
1928: The old split in the ranks of the Zionists, whose purpose is to rehabilitate Palestine as the Jewish National Home, broke wide open again today when the resignation of Dr. Stephen S. Wise and two other Zionists from the Administrative Committee of the Zionist Organization in America was announced.”
1929(17thof Adar II, 5689): Thirty-six-year-old Abraham Mandel, the Russian born son of Rebecca and Joseph David Mandel, the husband of both Edith Mandel and Goldie Mandel passed away today in Denver.
1930(29thof Adar, 5690): Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei
1930: As part of ceremonies to mark the 111th anniversary of the birth of Dr. Isaac M. Wise, Judge Irving Lehman is schedule to preside at the Temple Emanu-El services at which Dr. Johan B. Wise of Central Synagogue who will speak on the memories of his father…”
1930: The first American convention of the promoters and adherents of the Yiddish language, literature and culture opened this evening at the Irving Plaza Hall in New York City. Eight hundred people from the United States and Canada attended the opening session of a convention working to foster Yiddish Culture.
1931: Birthdate of Evelyn de Rothschild. Rothschild headed the English branch of the family and its banking business for twenty-one years. In 2003, the English and French branches merged and Baron David de Rothschild, head of the French branch assumed the new leadership position. The Rothschilds continue to be "one of the world's largest private banking dynasties."
1932(21stof Adar II, 5692): Sixty-one year old poetess Ida Goldsmith Morris, the daughter of Lambert and Frances Goldsmith and the wife of Herman Morris passed way today after which she was buried at Temple Cemetery in Louisville, KY.
1932: At the first Jewish Olympic Games, officially known as the Maccabiah, American Sybil Koff of New York, finished first in the semi-final of the 100 meter race while the American team finished second in the semi-final of the relay race. The opening contests in which American Jews played a prominent part took place “in the newly built stadium situated at the junction of the Yarkon River and the Mediterranean Sea” before a crowd estimated to exceed the venue’s 25,000 seat capacity.
1932: Jack Benny debuted on radio. This legendary Jewish entertainer moved from vaudeville to the electronic medium - radio, the movies and finally television.
1933: The front page of the Nazi newspaper, Volkisher Beobachter, stated "Let Jewry Know Against Who it Has Declared War".
1933: “In an act of anticipatory obedience to the Nazi regime, the management of UFA, a leading German motion picture production company, decided to fire several Jewish employees.”
1934): Sixty-nine-year-old Russian born Louis Zuro, the younger brother of textile Aron Surasky, the father of the late Josiah Zuro, the music direct at Pathe motion picture studio and the husband of Leah Zuro, who began working on productions of Hammerstein’s grand operas in 1910 and organizing free Sunday concerts in 1924 was buried today at Mount Lebanon Cemetery one day after his death.
1934(13th of Nisan, 5694): Sixty-seven-year-old Otto Hermann Kahn passed away. Born in Germany in 1867, this noted banker, collector, philanthropist and patron of the arts moved to the United States in 1893. He joined the banking firm of Kuhn, Loeb and Company and continued to add to his fortune. He was a founder and President of the Metropolitan Opera Company. He bankrolled numerous artists including Hart Crane, George Gershwin and Arturo Toscanini. Kahn uttered the following warning, “The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. Liberty is not foolproof.” To work “it demands self-restraint, a sane and clear recognition of the practical and attainable, and of the fact that there are laws of nature which are beyond our power to change.”
1934: Birthdate of Ehud Netzer, the native of Haifa who became a leading Israeli archeologist.
http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-me-ehud-netzer-20101106-story.html
1935: In Brooklyn, Abraham M. and Belle Lindenbaum gave birth to Samuel H. Lindenbaum, who was widely considered New York City’s top zoning lawyer and who was credited with doing as much as any of the powerful developers among his clients to shape the modern skyline of Manhattan…” (As reported by David W. Dunalp)
1936: The SS guard formations were renamed SS-Totenkopfverbände (SS-Death's Head Units). They provided guards for concentration camps.
1936: In St. Louis, MO, “Prince Hubertus zu Loewenstein said “While there are so many visitors in Germany because of the games, Hitler is on his good behavior so far as internal policies are concerned but almost certainly there will be a new reign of terror for the Jews and other oppressed groups after the Olympics are concluded.”
1936: In Poland, the Jews opposed the new law that gives the minister of agriculture control over the Polish Dairy industry “on the ground that it menaces the Jewish milk trade.”
1937: Birthdate of Moacyr Jaime Scliar a Brazilian writer and physician who passed away in 2011.
1937: It was announced today that the Zionist General Council that was to be held in London on April 13 will be held on April 17 in Jerusalem.
1937: The Palestine Post reported that the body of Jacob Zwanger, an engineer who had disappeared some 18 days earlier, was found near Rehovot. He was apparently strangled. A Jew and his Arab partner were arrested, both suspected of Zwanger's murder.
1937: The Palestine Post reported that Arab brigands held up and robbed drivers near Jenin.
1937: The Palestine Post reported that a plea was made in the House of Commons to reduce the British tariff on Palestine oranges which was devised to protect the South African citrus industry.
1938: A total of $20,000 was contributed tonight to the Youth Aliyah (immigration) fund of Hadassah to remove children from Austria as well as Germany and Poland.
1938: The New York Times reported that Dr. Sigmund Freud has been denied a passport so that he cannot leave Vienna for the Netherlands. A delegation that included Princess Marie Bonaparte had gone to Vienna to make Freud aware of the warm welcome that would await him in what would be his new Dutch home.
1938: A total of $20,000 was contributed tonight to the Youth Aliyah (immigration) fund of Hadassah to remove children from Austria as well as Germany and Poland.
1939: Birthdate of Roland Arnall, the French native who became a successful American businessman, diplomat and financial contributor to the well-being of Chabad-Lubavitch.
1939: The Soviet NKVD secret police arrested Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson, the father of the late Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson for his outspoken efforts against the Communist Party’s efforts to eradicate Jewish learning and practice in the Soviet Union. After more than a year of torture and interrogations in Stalin's prisons, he was sentenced to exile to the interior of Russia. He died there in 1944. Rabbi Schneerson was a distinguished Kabbalist. Some of his writings have been published under the name Likkutei Levi Yitzchak. Most of it, however, was burned or confiscated by the Soviet authorities and has yet to be returned to the Chabad movement.
1940: NBC Radio, broadcast the final episode of “I Love a Mystery” which was sponsored by Fleischmann’s Yeast founded by Charles Louis Fleischman in 1868.
1941: In France, establishment of the Commissariat of Jewish Affairs.
1942: SS Captain Dieter Wislicey wants $50,000 in cash as the price for stopping the deportations of Slovakian Jews to the death camps. He will get the money, but the deportations will continue
1942: Founder's Day in honor of Isaac Mayer Wise, founder of Reform Judaism, was observed this afternoon in the Central Synagogue, with a special service under the auspices of the Greater New York City Alumni of the Hebrew Union College
1943: In Philadelphia, Mark and Lillian Shapiro gave birth to Harvard Law School Ronald M. Shaprio, a leading sports agent, author and co-founder of the Shapiro Negotiations Institute.
http://www.shapironegotiations.com/ron-shapiro/
1943: Third and final shipment of Macedonian Jews from Skopje to Treblinka. Of the 7,144 Jews shipped there over three days only about 200 survived the war,
1943: “Hans Neumann, Leo Drabant, his wife along with eight other anti- Nazi resistance members were arrested by the Gestapo” today.
1944: Anne Frank mentions in her diary that Gerrit Bolkestein, Education Minister of the Dutch Government in exile, delivered a radio message from London urging his war-weary countrymen to collect "vast quantities of simple, everyday material" as part of the historical record of the Nazi occupation and writes "Ten years after the war people would find it very amusing to read how we lived, what we ate and what we talked about as Jews in hiding."
1944: Tel Aviv was declared off limits to all military personnel today, including those who have family living in the city. The ban was in response to attacks on police stations in Haifa, Jaffa, and Jerusalem for which the Irgun has taken public credit.
1945(15th of Nisan, 5705: First Day of Pesach
1945(15th of Nisan, 5705): On the first day of Pesach at least 58 Jews were murdered in a forest near the Austrian village of Deutsch Shuetzen, in what would come to be called the Deutsch Shuetzen Massacre. SS sergeant Adolf Storms SS sergeant Adolf Storms was among the perpetrators of the killing.
1945: In the evening, members of the Jewish Infantry Brigade of the British 8thArmy serving in Italy took part in a Seder at Faenza.
1945: Birthdate of Yehuda Ezekiel Berkowit, the Netanya native who gained fame as Yehuda Barkan, the “Israeli actor, film producer, film director and screenwriter.”
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/289730
1945: The ill-fated and ill-conceived mission ordered by General Patton to rescue his son-in-law John K. Waters under the command of Captain Abraham Baum came to an ignominious end with Baum who had been shot in the groin joining the wounded Walters in a German hospital for POWS.
1946: Birthdate of Miami native Bruce Weber, the noted fashion photographer.
1946: “The main problem to be solved during the next few years by the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York…is how to assure ‘full dollar’s value’ for the community’s charitable funds in this inflationary era Norman S. Goetz, president of the organization declared” today.
1946: U.S. premiere of “Night Editor” directed by Henry Levin
1947: Clifton Daniel interviewed Jewish refugees at Caraolos, a British run displaced persons camp outside of Famagusta, Cyprus. “An appeal for the outside world to consider their plight was the first and only formal proposal addressed” to him by these immigrants. Currently, there are 11,000 Jews living in camps like this all across Cyprus. If the British stick to their policy of releasing 750 Jews a month to go to Palestine, it will take at least fourteen months to empty these camps.
1947: “A ship carrying 1,600 Jewish unauthorized refugees was intercepted tonight off the northern coast of Palestine by the Royal Navy.” The ship which was known as the Patria or Moledeth was taken to the harbor at Haifa.
1947: Slaih Jabir, who in 1950 would introduce the “Supplement to Decree 62 of 1933 which effectively forced Jews to leave all their property behind and go to Israel” began serving as Prime Minister.
1947: At a mass meeting in Tel Aviv, Golda Meyerson, the head of the Jewish Agency’s political department “assailed the underground extremists’ warfare today in these words: ‘Terrorism is assisting Palestine’s British administration it has put Palestine Jewry on the defensive, whereas but for terrorism the Zionists could have pursued a more vigorous line in their political efforts…we don ot want to embark on internal warfare, but if it be thrust upon us we shall finish with the terrorists, although without cooperating with the Government in doing so.’”
1948: Today “Dr. Hussein el-Khalidi, secretary of the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine, rejected proposals for a truce in Jerusalem, for an international force to pro tect the city and for a trusteeship for the Holy Land.”
1949: In a meeting with Zionist leaders in New York, former Prime Minister Winston Churchill offers assurance that his commitment to the Jewish state is as solid as it has ever been.
1949: “The Set-up” a boxing film written by Art Cohn, co-starring George Tobias and featuring a cameo appearance by photographer Arthur 'Weegee' Fellig was released in the United States today
1950: The United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine issues a memorandum designed to “meet the Israeli demands for direct negotiations and the Arab desire that the commission act as mediator.”
1950: The “first contingent of ‘hard core’ cases from the refugee camps in German and Austria arrive in Israel” three days before Pesach. “These unfortunates, the halt, the lame and the blind were brought in by the combined efforts of the international relief organizations, the Jewish Agency for Palestine and the Israeli Government.” Their arrival is an example of David Ben Gurion’s belief that Israel is the home for all Jews regardless of their condition.
1951: Judy Holliday, born Judy Tuvim, won the Oscar for Best Actress for her portrayal of Billie Dawn in the film “Born Yesterday.”
1951: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of espionage. The prosecutor in the case and the judge who would pronounce the death sentence were also Jewish. However, right-wing politicians would overlook this and use the Rosenberg case as further proof that the Jews were part of the Communist Conspiracy.
1953: Birthdate of Samuel Elliott Chwat founder of the Sam Chwat Speech Center.
1953: While serving with the First Marine Division during the Korean War, Jewish chaplain Samuel Sobel who had been “commissioned by the U.S. Navy in 1945” “was hit by shrapnel today in the battle of Vegas” which would lead to him being sent back to Paris Island, SC and being awarded a Purple Heart.
1954: In “Massacre at Scorpion’s Pass” published today the Time correspondent described the terror attack that took place south of Beersheba.
http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,819663,00.html
1955: At the Terrace Room of the Plaza, Dr. Robert Serebrenik, the senior rabbi at Temple Ramath Orah officiated at the wedding of Henryka Judyth Korngold to Dr. Jacob Haberman, the assistant rabbi at Temple Ramath Orah.
1956: Syria returned 4 Israeli soldiers who had been held captive for fifteen months in return for an the prisoners the Israelis had taken during Operation Olive Leaves.
1956: Be'er Sheva or Beersheba was linked to Israel's railway system. Yes, this is the ancient city mentioned connection with Abraham and Isaac. This is just one example of how the young state of Israel was developing its economy and infrastructure while confronting on-going threats of Arab attacks as well as the reality of cross-border raids by fedayin (the name given to the terrorists of those days.)
1958(8thof Nisan, 5718): Parashat Tzav; Shabbat HaGadol
1959: Birthdate of Nouriel Roubini, the Turkish born son of Iranian Jews who became a leading American advisor on economics and the chairman of Roubini Global Economics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roubini_Global_Economics
1959(19thof Adar II, 5719): Yiddish author and playwright David Pinski’s wife Adele (Hodel) passed away five months before he passed away in August.
1959: Birthdate of Perry Farrell, lead singer of Jane’s Addiction
1959: Release date for “Some Like It Hot” a great comedy film directed, produced and co-authored by Billy Wilder.
1959: Birthdate of Nouiel Roubini, the Turkish born son of Iranian Jews who spent part of his youth living in Israel, who would gain fame as the economist who predicted the financial crisis that would engulf the world’s economy starting in the fourth quarter of 2008.
1959: Today “on Easter Sunday in 1959, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. rose in the pulpit of his Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, to deliver a sermon that focused on his just-completed visit, with his wife, Coretta, to Jerusalem and its holy sites.”
1960: Birthdate of Bronx native and Spring Valley raised Princeton graduate Stephen Andrew “Steve” Feinberg, the billionaire co-founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of Cerberus Capital Management and supporter of Donald Trump.
1963: “Miracle of the White Stallions” directed by Arthur Hiller was released today in the United States.
1965: In the United Kingdom, premiere of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “The Sound of Music” with a script by Ernest Lehman.
1965(25thof Adar II, 5725): Fifty-five-year-old Stanley Irving Posner, the Massachusetts born “son of Benjamin and Fanny (Libby) Posner, the Harvard trained attorney holding degrees from Amherst and the University of Chicago who was the husband of Lillian Kahn and the father of James, Elizabeth and Lawrence Posner passed away today.
1965: Birthdate of Elisheva Greenbaum. In June of 2003, at the Metulla Festival of Poetry, Ellisheva was awarded the prestigious "Tevah" prize in poetry. Earlier, in 2002, Elisheva was awarded The Prime Minister's prize for poetry.
1966: “It's A Bird... It's A Plane... It's Superman is a musical with music by Charles Strouse” which “is based on the comic book character Superman created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster and published by DC Comics” “opened on Broadway” today “at the Alvin Theatre.”
1967(17th of Adar II, 5727): Israeli author, Isaac Dov Berkowitz passed away. Born in Belarus in 1885 he made aliyah in 1928. The son-in-law of Sholom Aleichim, he was a two-time winner of the Bialik Prize and a winner of the Israel Prize for literature in 1958.
1967: A new divisional merchandise for Bloomingdale’s men’s clothing, sportswear and outerwear, University shop hats and shoes, boy’s wear and other departments has been named today.
1968(15thof Nisan, 5724): First Day of Pesach and Shabbat.
1968: “Madigan” a police movie directed by Don Siegel, with a script co-authored by Abraham Polonsky was released in the United States today.
1969: The original production of “Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?” produced by Philip Rose came to a close today at the Belasco Theatre.
1970: One day after he had passed away funeral services were held at the Talmud Torah of Flatbush under the leadership of Rabbi Moshe Feinstein for Rabbi Nissen Telushkin.
https://www.nytimes.com/1970/04/03/archives/rabbi-telushkin-88-orthodox-scholar.html
1970: Eighty-four-year-old Anna Louise Strong, the American born journalist best known for her support of Communism in the USSR and China who was the wife and political sole mate of Joel Shubin, the Jewish agronomist and journalist who served for a time the Deputy Minister of Agriculture in the USSR.
1970: Eighty-four year old Heinrich Brüning, the Chancellor of Germany who tried to save the Weimar Republic in the wake of the anarchy created by the Communists and the Nazis and sought to thwart Hitler’s rise to power passed away today.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/82225/Heinrich-Bruning
1972(14thof Nisan, 5732): Ta’anit Bechorot; Erev Pesach
1972(14thof Nisan, 5732): Ivan Salomon who with his wife Sophie was a“Yeshiva University Guardian who helped to established YU’s Sephardic Studies Program” and was the father of Professor Herman Salomon, “the former editor of The American Sephardic Journal” passed away today.
1973(25th of Adar II, 5733): Ida Cohen Rosenthal, the woman who created the modern brassiere industry passed away.
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/197610
1974: Four months after premiering in France, “The Three Msketeers” directed by Richard Lester and co-produced by Alexander Salkind and Ilya Salkind was released today in the U.S. and the U.K.
1975(17thof Nisan, 5735): Shabbat Chol Hamoed; Third Day of Pesach
1975(17thof Nisan, 5735): Seventy-three-year-old former University of Chicago Professor of Archaeology Pinhas Pierre Dlougaz, the Ukrainian born son of Simon and Zipporah Silverman who conducted excavations several sites in Turkey and Persia and Beth Yerah in Israel passed away today in Iran
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/delougaz-pierre-pinchas
http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/delougaz
1977: Robert Strauss began serving as United States Trade Representative.
1977: The Jerusalem Post reported that the Soviet Foreign Minister, Andrei Gromyko, said that he would allow the early reconvening of the Geneva Peace Conference without PLO participation. The conference might later decide on the PLO's eventual participation.
1977: The Jerusalem Post reported that the Egged management threatened to withdraw public transport service to and from Lod due to hooliganism, personal attacks, theft and other difficult conditions at the Lod Central Bus Station.
1978: In Southfield, Michigan, funeral services are scheduled to be held this morning at Congregation Shaarey Zedek for fifty-nine-year-old United States District Judge and “Michigan Veteran of the Year” Lawrence Gutow, “the’ first man named to be an honorary member of, the Women's Army Corps who raised a son and two daughters with his wife of 30 years Estelle after which he will buried in Clover Hill Park Cemetery.
1979: Real Life” the first feature film directed by Albert Brooks who co-authored the script and co-starred in the picture along with Charles Grodin was released today in the United States.
1980(12thof Nisan, 5740): Parashat Tzav and Shabbat Gadol
1980(12thof Nisan, 5740): Ten days after his 68th birthday, New York born, Columbia trained attorney Joseph Walker an executive with S. Klein Department Stores, passed away today.
https://forgotten-ny.com/2016/03/s-klein-stores/
1981: The New York Times reviews "The Geneva Crisis" by Matti Golan, an Israeli diplomat writing about a fictional attempt by idealistic Jews who are duped when they attempt to work for peace with Palestinian rebels.
1981: The Broadway production of “Woman of the Year” a musical with a book by Peter Stone and starring Lauren Bacall opened today at the Palace Theatre.
1981(23rd of Adar II, 5741): Forty-nine-year-old Jerusalem born Joseph A. Eliash passed away today in Oberlin, OH after which he was buried at the Salem Jewish Cemetery in Sheffield, OH.
1982: Birthdate of “Russian born Israeli entrepreneur who with his brother Dmitry “founded online gaming company Playrix.
1983(15thof Nisan, 5743): 1984: In Amsterdam, the International Catholic-Jewish Liaison Committee met for the last time.
1985:Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment starring Steve Guttenberg was released today in the United States.
1986(18thof Adar II, 5746): Seventy-eight year old Harry Ritz, one of the famous three Ritz Brothers passed away today.
1987: Yitzhak Shamir was re-elected chairman of right wing Herut Party. Born in Poland in 1915, Shamir moved to Palestine in 1935. While attending Hebrew University he joined the Irgun. He later left the Irgun and joStern Gang. Shamir would later rise above what some people might think of a rather dubious past to become Prime Minister in 1988. To his credit, in May 1991, Shamir ordered the airlift rescue of thousands of Ethiopian Jewry, codenamed "Operation Solomon." In September, Shamir provided living proof that people can change, when he represented Israel at the Madrid Peace Conference which brought about direct negotiations with Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and the Palestinians.
1987: Tonight Colonel Aviem Sella, the Israeli Air Force who was indicted earlier this month in the United States for his role in recruiting Jonathan Pollard as a spy, said that he was giving up his recent promotion to the rank of general because of “the problems it had caused between the United States and Israel.”
1987: An American Rabbi, Arthur Schneier, said that “that the Soviet Union has agreed that future Jewish émigrés will be sent to Israel by way of Rumania.” In the past, those Jews who were allowed to leave the Soviet Union traveled through Vienna where many of them obtained visas for the United States even though they had said they were leaving to go to Israel. Schneier hopes the change will lead to an increase in the number of Jews who are allowed to leave the Soviet Union. The Rumanians have asked that the transit cite in their country not be identified so that it will not become a target for terrorists.
1989: ABC broadcast the 61st Academy Awards this evening produced by Allan Carr and directed by Jeff Margolis during which “Rain Man” directed by Barry Levinson and co-starring by Dustin Hoffman won the Oscar for Best Picture.
1991(14thof Nisan, 5751): Fast of Esther; erev Pesah
1991(14th of Nisan, 5751): The Kesim celebrated the last Pesach for their community at the Israeli embassy in Addas Abba, Ethiopia.
1991: “The Unborn” a horror film directed by Rodman Flender and co-starring Lisa Kudrow was released today in the United States.
1993: Billy Crystal served as host at the 65th Academy Awards Ceremony in Los Angeles. Elizabeth Taylor was co-winner of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
1993: Simone Veil began serving as Minister of Health in France
1993: Jack Lang completed his first term in office as Education Minister of France.
1994(17th of Nisan, 5754): During Chol Hamoed Pesach, Yitzhak Rothenberg, age 70, of Petah Tikva, was attacked on a construction site by two residents of Khan Yunis by axe blows to the head. He died several days later of his wounds.
1995: Police Insp. Nitzan Cohen, 22, of Jerusalem and Sgt.-Maj. Jamal Suwitat from Makr village in Western Galilee were killed when a Palestinian driver rammed his truck into their jeep in a convoy east of the Netzarim junction in Gaza.
1996(9thof Nisan, 5756): Ninety-four year old Louis B. Flexner, the Kentucky born the “founding director of the Institute of Neurological Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania” passed away today. (As reported by Wolfgang Saxon)
1996: Actress Rebecca “Schaeffer's life and death became the topic of the first E! True Hollywood Story episode, which originally aired” today.
1997(20thof Adar II, 5757): Parashat Vayikra; Shabbat Zachor; Erev Purim
1997(20thof Adar II, 5757): Seventy-nine year old geneticist Ruth Sager passed away today.
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2004/11/ruth-sager/
https://jwa.org/thisweek/feb/07/1918/ruth-sager
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2004/11/ruth-sager/
1998: The 27th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship was played today. The namesake of this major LPGA event was born Frances Rose Shore in Winchester, Tenn. in 1917. She adopted the name Dinah from a hit 1930's tune of the same name that was her signature song in the early days of her career.
1998: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or special interest to Jewish readers including “Diplomacy for the Next Century” by Abba Eban, “Clement Greenberg: A Life” by Florence Rubenfeld,” The Castle: A New Translation, Based on the Restored Text” by Franz Kafka; translated by Mark Harman and “Getting Away With Murder: How Politics Is Destroying the Criminal Justice System” by Susan Estrich.
1998: Famed basketball player Henry "Hank" Rosenstein Rosenstein was inducted into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame
1999: In the ever-changing revolving door of Israeli party politics, Eliezer Sandberg”s HaTzeirim faction joined Shinui.
1999: Emanuel Zisman left the Third Way political party and served the rest of his term as an independent MK.
2000: Israel's high court orders that about 700 Palestinians be allowed to return to their traditional homes in caves in the southern West Bank.
2000: Funeral services are scheduled to take place to at the Plaza Memorial Chapel for Samuel Lipman “husband of and the late Roberta Lipman.”
2000(22nd of Adar II, 5760): Ninety-year old choreographer Anna Sokolow passed away today.
2001: “A group of men from a reclusive Hasidic community in the Hudson Valley were indicted today on federal charges that they ran a criminal organization that defrauded people, banks, insurance companies and the government of millions of dollars over several years.”
2001: Lawyers representing some Holocaust victims said today that they planned to drop a lawsuit that contends that American executives who ran International Business Machines during the 1930's and 1940's played a role in equipping the Nazi regime in Germany to pursue its goals of persecuting Jews and other minorities that they had filed in federal court in Brooklyn against I.B.M. last month because “the lawyers said the State Department had advised them that the litigation could delay compensation payments to more than a million slave laborers and other victims of Nazi policies.”
2002(16thof Nisan, 5762): Second Day of Pesach and 1st day of the Omer.
2002(16thof Nisan, 5762): “Tuvia Wisner, 79, of Petah Tikva and Michael Orlinsky, 70, of Tel-Aviv were killed Friday morning, when a Palestinian terrorist infiltrated the Neztarim settlement in the Gaza Strip.” (Jewish Virtual Library)
2002(16thof Nisan, 5762): Rachel Levy, 17, and Haim Smadar, 55, the security guard, both of Jerusalem, were killed and 28 people were injured, two seriously, when a female suicide bomber blew herself up in the Kiryat Yovel supermarket in Jerusalem. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. (Jewish Virtual Library)
2002(16thof Nisan, 5762): Lt. Boaz Pomerantz, 22, of Kiryat Shmona and St.-Sgt. Roman Shliapstein, 22, of Ma'ale Efraim were killed in the course of the IDF anti-terrorist action in Ramallah (Operation Defensive Shield. (Jewish Virtual Library)
2002: In response to the suicide bombing at a Seder in the Park Hotel that claimed the lives of 30, the IDF launched Operation Defensive Shield.
2002: U.S. premiere of “Clockstoppers” a “science fiction comedy film” with a script co-authored by David N. Weiss.
2002: U.S. premiere of “Teddy Bears’ Picnic” a comedy directed by Harry Shearer who also wrote the script.
2002: “Death to Smoochy” a comedy written by Adam Resnick and co-starring Jon Stewart and Harvey Fierstein was released in the United States today.
2002: In the U.K. premiere of “Invincible” a drama based loosely on the life of Jewish vaudeville strongman and circus performer Siegmund “Zishe” Breitbart.
2003: In her presidential installation sermon on Rabbi Janet Marder spoke about the need to develop and sustain progressive Judaism in Israel, and about "developing an inner life — about personal prayer, about seeking the Holy One, and quiet hours inside a book, and the solitude that is essential for a life of clarity and integrity."
2004: “The New York Police Department will step up security around the city for Passover, which begins at sundown on April 5, Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said today.”
2004: Today, New York Police Commissioner said “the Department of Consumer Affairs is turning its attention to retailers who price-gouge on kosher items” and advised New Yorkers who suspect such overcharging to call 311. (As reported by Jennifer Steinhauer)
2005: The New York Times reported that “as Columbia University awaits a report on charges of intimidation of Jewish students in classes in Middle East studies, a group of graduate students began circulating a petition calling for the resignation of Columbia’s president, Lee Co. Bollinger, because he ‘failed to defend our faculty, thereby nurturing an environment of fear and intimidation throughout the university.’”
2006: Shlomo Benizri “was charged by the State Prosecutor's Office with accepting bribes and breaching the public trust.”
2006: With 95 percent of the ballots counted, the election results for the 17th Knesset appeared as follows:
Kadima: 28 Knesset seats
Labor: 20
Shas: 13
Likud: 11
Israel Beitenu: 12
NRP / NU: 9
Pensioners: 7
United Torah Judaism: 6
Meretz: 4
Balad: 3
Hadash: 3
United Arab List: 4
While it appears that Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s Kadima Party gained the largest number of seats, it was fewer than had been estimated in earlier polls. Once the results are final, Olmert will probably be asked to form a government. If the total holds at or around thirty seats, Kadima will have to gather another 31 seats to gain the 61 seats necessary to control the Knesset and govern the country.
2007: The Tel Aviv Museum of Art presents, for the first time in Israel, a retrospective selection of works by Mark Rothko, one of the pillars of the New York School artists, identified in the late 1940s and early ‘50s as the painters of Abstract Expressionism.
2007: Montreal native and Harvard Ph.D Bernard Jack Shapiro completed a three year term as “the first Ethics Commissioner of Canada” today.
2007: Three days after he had passed away, funeral services are scheduled to be held at K.K. Beth Elohim in Charleston, SC for Leon Banov, Jr. the Charleston born son of Minnie and Dr. Leon Banov and the Medical College of South Carolina trained proctologist who was the husband of Rita Landesman Banov and father of Jane and Alan Banov.
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/charleston/obituary.aspx?n=leon-banov&pid=86978509&fhid=6051
2008: Shabbat Parah, 5768
2008: The 92nd Street Y presents “Gershwin Brothers’ Dream of a Great American Opera: Porgy and Bess and beyond” the third lecture in a series entitled “Music as Melting Pot Mosaic: The Gershwins.”
2009: In the 2nd of a four part lecture series marking this special year of Hakhel Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of England a noted author and lecturer delivers a talk on Unity and Redemption - Celebrating Freedom Together.
2009: MAD Magazine posted “Happy 80th Birthday, Mort Drucker” today.
https://www.tomrichmond.com/2009/03/29/happy-80th-birthday-mort-drucker/
2009: Model Matzah Baker takes place at Lubavitch Chabad of Northbrook with participants learning about Passover and enjoying the thrill of baking their own Matzah.
2009: The Chicago Tribune reviews “The Kindly Ones” a Holocaust novel by Jonathan Littell which the reviewer calls a “helpless narrative” and “missed opportunity.”
2009: The Times of London reported today that the Israel Air Force used unmanned drones to attack secret Iranian convoys in Sudan that were trying to smuggle weapons to Palestinian militant organizations in the Gaza Strip. Defense officials were quoted as saying that the trucks were carrying missiles capable of striking as far as Tel Aviv and the nuclear reactor in Dimona.
2009(4thof Nisan, 5769): Ninety-five year old American photographer Helen Levitt passed away.
http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-helen-levitt1-2009apr01-story.html#page=1
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/apr/03/helen-levitt-obituary
2010: Pro-Palestinian protesters disrupted a performance in London by the acclaimed Jerusalem Quartet.
2010: In New York, a weeklong program entitled The New Israeli Cuisine is scheduled to come to an end.
2010(14th of Nisan, 5770): Fast of the First Born
2010(14th of Nisan, 5770): In the evening, Jews around the world sit down to the Seder. Have a zissen Pesach
2010(14thof Nisan, 5770): Seventy-five year old author Alan Isler whose works included The Prince of West End Avenue, a novel “set in a Jewish old person’s home” which won the National Jewish Book Award and the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Literary Prize passed away.
2011: “Nora’s Will” and “Precious Life” are scheduled to be shown at the Westchester Jewish Film Festival.
2011: President Obama nominated Daniel B. Shapiro to serve as the Ambassador of the United States of America to the state of Israel.
2011: Center for Jewish History and Leo Baeck Institute presented “Romantic Piano Trios: Schumann and Rachmaninoff.”
2012: The Andy Statman Trio (Andy on mandolin and clarinet, Jim Whitney on bass, Larry Eagle on drums & percussion) is scheduled to wrap up the season at the Charles Street Synagogue.
2012: Al Munzer is scheduled to moderate “Spinoza, Superstar of the millennium?” as part of Theatre J’s backstage program.
2012: Senator Gary Peters delivered a speech in honor of Joel E. Jacob, Chairman of the Board of MAZON.
http://capitolwords.org/date/2012/03/29/E508-2_to-honor-the-leadership-of-joel-jacob-as-chairman-/
2012: Jon Lebowitz was confirmed for a second term as Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission.
2012: “Footnote” is among the films scheduled to be shown today at the Westchester Jewish Film Festival.
2012(6thof Nisan, 5772): Seventy-four year old “Kenneth Libo, a historian of Jewish immigration who, as a graduate student working for Irving Howe in the 1960s and ’70s, unearthed historical documentation that informed and shaped World of Our Fathers, Mr. Howe’s landmark 1976 history of the East European Jewish migration to America” passed away today. (As reported by Paul Vitello)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/09/books/kenneth-libo-historian-of-jewish-immigration-dies-at-74.html
2013: The Ruach Minyan at Adas Israel in Washington, D.C. is scheduled to host a Pesach Shabbat dinner.
2013: The Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduled to host a concert “Passion and Fire in the 20th Century.”
2013(18thof Nisan, 5773): Ninety-one year old linguist John H. Gumperz passed away today.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_J._Gumperz
2013: The 23rdannual Haifa International Children’s Theatre Festival is scheduled to come to an end.
2013: The Bernard and Irene Schwartz Classic Film Series is scheduled to present “That Hamilton Woman” the classic directed by Michael Korda.
2013: “The Jewish Cardinal,” a “French television film directed by Ilan Duran Cohen was broadcast today on Arte.
2013: Forty year old Michael Steinberg, a SAC Capital Advisors portfolio manager who had worked for discredited billionaire Steven Cohen, was arrested by federal agents today.
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/03/29/sac-capital-manager-arrested-on-insider-trading-charges/?hp
2013: A man claiming to represent the hackers behind one of the biggest attacks in Internet history made anti-Jewish statements.
2014: “Fountains of the Deep: Visions of Noah and the Flood” is scheduled to be shown for the last time in a pop art space at 462 West Broadway.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/darren-aronofsky-says-mideast-boycott-of-noah-is-sad/
2014: “Labor and Race in Modern Germany,” co-sponsored by the Pears Institute for the Study of Anti-Semitism is scheduled to come to a close today
2014: “The Zigzag Kid” is scheduled to be shown at the Northern Virginia Jewish Film Festival.
2014: “A Jewish woman and her partner were among the first same-sex couple ever to be officially married in Britain today, after a law authorizing same-sex marriages went into effect throughout the country. Twenty-nine-year-old Nikki Pettit, who is Jewish, married Tania Ward, 28, in a Jewish ceremony in Brighton, on Britain’s south coast.”
2014: “Trebilinka: Hitler’s Killing Machine is scheduled to air tonight on the Smithsonian Channel.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/179065#.Uzil8JtOWpo
2014: Israel did not conduct the fourth stage of the prisoner release tonight,
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=16499
2014: “New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie apologized to Jewish billionaire Sheldon Adelson today for using the controversial term "occupied territories," saying he "misspoke" during his speech to a Republican Jewish Coalition event, Politico and CNN reported.”
2014: “Rabbi Yousef Hamadani Cohen, chief rabbi of Iran since 1994, who passed away over the weekend was laid to rest” today.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/iranian-chief-rabbi-yousef-hamadani-cohen-dies/
2015: Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is scheduled to host a screening of “Defiance.”
2015: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The Country of Ice Cream Starby Sandra Newman
2015: Suite Française a film “based on the best-selling book by Irène Némirovsky, written by her during the Nazi occupation and before she was sent to Auschwitz is scheduled to be shown today as part of the UK Jewish Film Festival
2015: “A Happy End” by Iddo Netanyahu is scheduled to be performed for the last time at the June Havoc Theatre in Manhattan.
2015: The 64th Annual Israel Folk Dance Festival and Festival of the Arts is scheduled to take place in NYC.
http://israelidanceinstitute.org/general/festival-64/
2015: Professor Derek J. Penslar is scheduled to deliver a lecture on “1948 as a Jewish World War” in Miami Beach.
http://jewishstudies.fiu.edu/events/2015/1948-as-jewish-world-war/
2016: Today, “Israeli Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef walked back his statement that non-Jews should not live in Israel, calling the comment “theoretical.”
2016: “Stolen Heart: The Theft of Jewish Property in Berlin’s Historic Center, 1933 – 1945” an exhibition that explores the critical issue of the state-sponsored “Aryanization” and plundering of Berlin’s Mitte (city center) and the murder of many of its former property owners is scheduled to open today.
2016: “Hitler’s Commando Lt. Col. Otto Skorzeny ‘Worked as an Assassin for Israeli Intelligence” published today described Mossad’s employment with a notorious Nazi.
2016: “Following a public backlash,” “Israeli Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef walked back his statement that non-Jews should not live in Israel, calling the comment “theoretical.”
2016: The Skirball Center is scheduled to host Lord George Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury (Ret.), as he presents a Christian perspective on anti-Semitism, its root causes and the current situation in Europe and the UK as well as the BDS movement and its attempts to delegitimize Israel.
2017: The Seattle Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host “Ave Maria” a film in which “a Jewish family asks Palestinian nuns to break their vow of silence to help them on Shabbat.”
2017: As part of the observance of Women’s History Month, Lauren B. Strauss, Scholar in Residence at American University and Executive Director of the Foundation for Jewish Studies is scheduled to “discuss her role in the Civil Rights movement and how her early experiences shaped her later life” with Holocaust survivor Marione Ingram, the author of The Hands of Peace.
2017: The Vice President of the United States administered the office to “bankruptcy attorney David Friedman, the new U.S. Ambassador to Israel.
2017: “A telegram from senior Nazi Heinrich Himmler to the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, probably dating to 1943,” which “contains a promise to support the Mufti in his fight to control Palestine, was published today on website of Israel’s National Library,
2017: Dr. Michael Bornstein, “one of the youngest survivors of the Holocaust” is scheduled to return to the University of Iowa where he earned his Ph.D. and “worked in pharmaceutical research and development for more than 40 years” to share his life story and discuss his new memoir, Survivors Club.
2018: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to “a concert of piano music presented by the Phoenix Chamber Ensemble celebrating the music of Oxana Yablonskaya.”
2018: Rona Kenan is scheduled to return to Zappa Tel Aviv with the band for a performance this evening.
2018: The Westchester Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to come to an end at the Jacob Burns Film Center.
2018: Two days after his 87th birthday, Judge Stephen Reinhardt, the Yale trained attorney and husband of Ramona Ripston with whom he had had three children – Mark Justin and Dana – passed away today. (As reported by Sam Roberts)
2018: Today, the online store of “Toys R US, the chain founded by Charles Lazarus” “shut down today.”
2018: Holocaust survivor Louise Lawrence Israels is scheduled to tell her first person story of survival at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.
2019: After having premiered in Los Angeles earlier this month, “Dumbo,” the timeless tale of elephant co-starring Alan Arkin and with music by Danny Elfman is scheduled to be released today in the United States.
2019: “Great British Jews: A Celebration” an exhibition that examines the contributions Jews have made to the United Kingdom, including “fish and chips” and “Marks and Spence” is scheduled to open today at the Jewish Museum in London.
2019: As part of its Shabbat observance, in New York, Temple Emanu-El is scheduled to host eight students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the site of the Valentine’s Day massacre who will “perform ‘Shine,’ their tibute to the friends they lost and to speak about their experience and how activism, music and the arts are helping them to heal.”
2019: “Believe,” the latest album by Neshama Carlebach is scheduled to be released today.
2020: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman by Ben Hubbard, which provides insight into a major player in Israel’s backyard, Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future by James Shapiro and the recently published paperback edition of Savage Feast: Three Generations, Two Continents and a Dinner Table (A Memoir With Recipes) by Boris Fishman.
2020: “The first-ever Limmud eFestival featuring “dozens of presenters teaching on the most interesting and important Jewish ideas” is scheduled to begin today.
https://www.crescentcityjewishnews.com/limmud-north-america-announced-efestival-for-march-29/
2020: In San Rafael, CA, trivia maven Howard Rachelson is scheduled to the virtual version of “Rodef Shalom Trivia.”
2020: “The 2nd Jewish Africa Conference & Morocco Trip” scheduled to end today was canceled due to the Pandemic.
2020: Adrienne Usher, Director at the Shapell Roster, first-ever comprehensive data archive documenting the Jewish soldiers who served in the American Civil War’ is scheduled to present the project’s history and future, as well as research methodology related specifically to the Confederacy in a Webinar hosted by the Jewish Genealogical Society of Georgia.
2020: The screening of “My Polish Honeymoon” scheduled for today has been canceled due to the pandemic.
2021(16thof Nisan, 57801): Second Day of Pesach; First Day of the Omer
2021: Three Jewish Federation initiatives - the Goldring Center for Jewish-Multicultural Affairs, JP NOLA, and the Leventhal Center for Interfaith Families - are scheduled to partner with Temple Sinai to host a virtual seder on Monday, March 29 for the LGBTQ community and the allies who love and support them.
2021: New England Yachad is scheduled to present online the YAYA Movie Club.
2021: Israelis should be able to find greater enjoyment in celebrating the rest of Pesach since “the coronavirus pandemic in Israel continued its decline over the weekend” according to the Health Ministry
2021: Romanian police were scheduled to continue investigating death threats made against award-winning film and theatre star Maia Morgenstern and her children at the start of Passover celebrations.
2022(26thof Adar II, 5782):A 27-year-old Palestinian from the West Bank methodically gunned down people in the central town of Bnei Brak, killing five.
2022: In the wake of recent terrorist attacks and with the coming of the “Holiday Season” for all three major religions, Israel security forces are reportedly on heightened alert.
2022: “Peace talks” between Russia and Ukraine whose resistance is being led by its Jewish president took place today in Istanbul with no apparent progress being made to end the conflict.
2023: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present live or on Zoom “Interpreting Your Jewish DNA Result” during which Adina Newman and Jennifer Mendelsohn will walk you through how to decipher your results without getting tripped up by common mistakes.
2023: The Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Center is scheduled to host a lecture by Allen Packwood on 'The Politics of War: The making and breaking of the coalition government," the fourth in a four-part course on “Sir Winston Churchill and the Second World War.”
2023: A second round of talks between delegations of Likud, Yesh Atid and National Unity led by President Isaac Herzog designed to deal with the proposed “overhaul” of the judicial system are scheduled to be held today.
2023: JDC Archives is scheduled to present a webinar with Dr. Michael Rom lecturing on “From the Nile to the Tietê: Egyptian Jewish Immigration to Brazil, 1956-61.”
2023: Based in Jerusalem, c.a.t.a.m.o.n a collaborative dance group and cultural organization is scheduled to perform at the Marlene Meyerson JCC in Manhattan.
2023: Holocaust survivor Tova Friedman, one of the co-authors of The Daughter of Auschwitz: My Story of Resilience, Survival and Hope is scheduled to speak today at Mt. Mercy University in Cedar Rapids, IA.