September 19
335:
Dalmatius is raised to the rank of Caesar by his Uncle Constantine I who had
turned the Roman Empire into a Christian entity. Following the death of Constantine, his
successor Constantius II reportedly had Dalmatius murdered along with other
members of his family whom he considered a threat to his rule. Constantinus consolidation of power was not a
good thing for the Jewish people because he was responsible for a whole series
of laws and regulations that were “explicitly anti-Jewish.”
690:
Theodore of Tarsus, the Archbishop of Canterbury in whose “Liber Poemotemtialis” contained the earliest references to Jews in
England passed away.(As described by Albert Hyamson)
1187:
Saladin breaks Camp at Ascalon, and moves towards his ultimate goal of taking
Jerusalem
1356:
The English decisively defeated the French, led by King John II at the Battle
of Poitiers. The English captured the
French king and held him for ransom. The
Dauphine, the future King Charles V, served as regent during his father’s
imprisonment. He authorized the return
of the Jews to France “in order to use the taxes to enable him to pay his
father's ransom.” When he assumed the
throne, Charles V would continue to honor the promises he had made to the Jews
during his regency.
1590(20th
of Elul): Today three years before he passed away, Moshe Alshich granted
smichah to Chaim ben Joseph Vital.
Alshcich was born in Turkey in 1508 but settled in Safed where he was a
disciple of Rabbi Joseph Caro.
1590(20th
of Elul): “Rabbi Judah Arye Moscato…whose principle fame rests on his exegesis,
Kol Yehuda of Al Charzari, which was printed for the first time in Fano, Italy
in passed away today
1635(7th
of Tishrei): Gitele Loew the wife of Rabbi Simon Brandeis and the mother of
Rabbi Samuel Brandeis passed away today in Prague.
1657:
During the Swedish invasion of Poland, a period called the Deluge, the Polish
king gives up his claims over Prussia in return for aid in fighting the forces
of Charles X, the Swedish monarch. This was a period of great suffering for the
Jews of Poland who treated badly by the invading Swedes and treated even worse
by the various Polish military forces.
1659:
Tobiah Bacharach and Israel ben Shalom were executed today on an accusation of
ritual murder.
1724(2nd
of Tishrei, 5485): Gluckel of Hamelin passed away
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/glueckel-of-hameln
1757:
Birth of Mantua native Samuel Romanelli who combined the skills of a Hebrew
poet with that of a traveler able to provide readable descriptions of his
visits to a variety of Jewish communities.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/romanelli-samuel-aaron
1759:
Birthdate of French banker Olry Hayem Worms, whose first wife was Blumele Levi
and whose second wife was Flore Zacharie.
1762(2nd
of Tishrei, 5523): Second Day of Rosh Hashana
1770(29th
of Elul, 5530): Erev Rosh Hashana
1773(2nd
of Tishrei, 5534): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah observed as colonists debated
how to deal with the Tea Act, an event that would lead to the Boston Tea Party.
1774(14th
of Tishrei, 5535): Erev Sukkoth observed in the 13th colonies for
the last time under British rule.
1777:
During the American Revolution, the First Battle of Saratoga begins. The victory at Saratoga was critical because
it brought the French into the war on the side of the Americans. Colonel David
Salisbury Franks, the highest ranking Jewish officer in the American Revolution
distinguished himself during this pivotal battle in American history.
1785(15th
of Tishrei, 5546): Sukkoth observed on the same day that John Jay, the
Secretary of the United Sates for the Department of Foreign Affairs wrote to
Congress that in his opinion it would expedient to have consuls in Russia,
Sweden, Denmark, Germany, the United Netherlands, Britain, Ireland, France,
Portugal, Spain…and certain ports in the
Mediterranian.”
1792(3rd
of Tishrei, 5553): Tzom Gedaliah observed two days before the official
abolition of the French Monarchy during the French Revolution.
1795(6th
of Tishrei, 5556): Parashat Vayeilech; Shabbat Shuva observed on the same day
that Vice President John Adams to his son John Q. Adams the U.S. Ambassador to
the Netherlands.
1796(16th
of Elul, 5556): Jonah b Nathan Z-tz-l was buried today in the Brady Street
Jewish Cemetery following his death on September 18.
1796:
Today, David C. Claypoole’s American Daily Advertiser published “Washington’s
Farewell Address” a letter to the American people in which George Washington,
who had made Jews feel welcomed in the newly created United States, declined a
third term in office and enunciated his view on what Americans would need to
protect their future.
1798(9th
of Tishrei, 5559): As the naval forces of the Second Coalition assert their
control over the Mediterranean in their on-going fight with Napoleon, Jews on
both sides hear the chanting of Kol Nidre this evening.
1801(12th
of Tishrei, 5562): Parashat Ha’azinu chanted for the first time during the
Presidency of Thomas Jefferson.
1802:
In Monk, Hungary László Kossuth and his wife Karolina gave birth to Lajos
Kossuth the leader of the Hungarian independence movement who was sympathetic
to Jewish hopes for emancipation and the right to become full-fledged citizens
of the newly independent Hungry. Based on Kossuth’s commitment to these
values Jews contributed 80,000 florins to the cause. Thirty thousand Jews
enlisted in Kossuth’s army, making them 11% of the force. Unfortunately,
the Magyar leadership and the rural peasants did not share Kossuth’s values.
Anti-Semitic outbreaks in the countryside combined with the efforts of these
political leaders blocked attempts to grant the Jews full rights of citizenship.
All this would become a moot point, since Kossuth and the independent Hungarian
movement would be defeated by the imperial forces and Kossuth would be forced
to flee for his life. Ironically, the returning Imperial government saved
their harshest punishment for the Jews.
1804(14th
of Tishrei, 5565): Erev Sukkot
1805:
In Bohemia, “Jewish parents gave birth to American journalist Francis Joseph Grund
whose works included The Americans in Their Moral, Social, and
Political Relations.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/43059313.pdf
1807:
In Charleston, SC, Isaac Da Costa married Miss Jane Samuel.
1808:
In Altdorf, Germany, Ella and Salomon Bernheimer gave birth to Leopold Solomon
Bernheimer, the husband of Fanny Weil-Bernheim.
1809(9th
of Tishrei, 5570): Erev Yom Kippur; Kol Nidre
1811(1st
of Tishrei, 5572): Rosh Hashana observed in the same year that the first Rosh Hashana kibbutz which had been initiated
by Rebbe Nachman of Breslov took place after his death
1812
(13th of Tishrei, 5573): Sixty-year-old Mayer Amschel Rothshchild the founding father of the famous banking family passed away today in Frankfurt, Germany. For more see Founder by Amos Elon and https://family.rothschildarchive.org/people/21-mayer-amschel-rothschild-1744-1812
1816:
In London, Sir Isaac and Isabel Goldsmid gave birth to their second daughter
Rachel who became Countess D’Avigdor when in June, 1840 she married Count
Salamon Henri D’Avigdor whose father was a member of Napoleon’s Sanhedrin.
1817(9th
of Tishrei, 5578): Erev Yom Kippur; Kol Nidre chanted on the 40th
anniversary of the American victory at the Battle of Freeman’s Farm which was
the opening fight in the Battle of Saratoga which was the turning point in the
American Revolution.
1818(18th
of Elul, 5578) Parashat Ki Tavo
1819(29th
of Elul, 5579): Erev Rosh Hashana
1821:
Birthdate of Poznan, Poland native and future resident of Brownsville, TX
Sophie Bernstein Kowalsk, the wife of Bernard Kowalski and the mother of Louis,
Isaac, Benjamin and Zachary Kowalski.
1822:
Mary Davis and Hyman Collins gave birth to Myer Collins who would not live to
see his 13th birthday.
1823(14th
of Tishrei, 5584): Erev Sukkoth and Erev Shabbat
1825:
In Hamburg, Germany, Moses Nathan Levy, the Hamburg born son of Jette and
Nathan Levy and his wife Hannchen Levy gave birth to David Levy, the brother of
Siegmund, Hirsh, Levin Roschen and Abraham Levy.
1827:
Birthdate of Leo Herzberg-Frankel who worked as the chief clerk of the Chamber
of Commerce and Industry in his native Brody for 40 years while he pursued his
literary career.
1833:
Birthdate of Prussian native Louis Hirschfield who established “a large
clothing house” in the Clayton County town of McGregor, IA who was the husband
of Rosalia Summerfield and a member of Congregation “B’nai Sholem” in Chicago.
1829(21st
of Elul, 5589): Selichot
1835(25th
of Elul, 5595): Parashat Nitzavim-Vayeilech; Leil Selichot observed on the
day that Stephen F. Austin wrote a
“circular” warning the people of Texas
about General Martin Perfecto de Cos’ plan to march into the colonies” and
urging “the citizens of Texas to demand their rights under the Constitution of
1824 and outlined steps that needed to be taken including making preparation
for war.
1838(29th
of Elul, 5598): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1838:
Birthdate of General Charles Gones who “when confronted with overwhelming
evidence that Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy was guilty of the espionage that
Alfred Dreyfus had wrongfully been convicted of, Gonse simply overlooked it and
refused to recognize Dreyfus's innocence.”
1841:
In Cincinnati, Ohio, German Jewish immigrants organized Congregation B’nai
Yeshurun
1842(15th
of Tishrei, 5603): Sukkoth
1843:
Jacob Alexander married Golda Levy at the Great Synagogue today.
1846:
Benjamin Naar, the St. Thomas born son of Hazan Joshua Naar and Sarah Naar and
his wife and Sarah Mozes Levi Maduro Naar gave birth to future Elizabeth, NJ
Hananel de Leon Naar.
1847(9th
of Tishrei, 5608): Jews living in California hear Kol Nidre for the first time
this evening as citizens of the United States as a result of the Treaty of
Guadalupe Hidalgo
1847:
François Guizot became Prime Minister of France under King Louis Philippe I
1849(3rd
of Tishrei, 5610):Tzom Gedaliah
1852:
In England, “Maurice Moses Beddington,” the son of “Esther and Henry Tsebi
Moses” and his wife “Hannah Maria Beddington gave birth to Mary Louisa
Beddington who became Mary Louisa Micholls when she married Edward Emanuel
Micholls
1852:
In Wilkes-Barre, ,PA, Abraham Strauss and Emilie Bodenheimer gave birth to
attorney Seligman Joseph Straus the holder of an M.A. from CCNY, husband of
Miriam Weiss and the President of District Grand Lodge No. 3 of the Independent
Order of B’nai B’rith in Wilkes-Barre.
1855:
In St. Louis, Esther Lewis, the daughter of Elizabeth and Jacob Philipson and
her husband Alexander Lewis gave birth to Stillborn Lewis.
1856:
In Budapest, Mordechai Caro and his wife gave birth to Victor Caro who served
as the Rabbi for congregations in Quincy, IL and Philadelphia before leading Milwaukee’s
Temple B’nai Jeshurun from 1892 until 1912 when he passed away while visiting
Germany In an attempt to deal with health issues.
1857(1st
of Tishrei, 5618): Rosh Hashanah
1857:
The New York Times reports on the dedication of a “House of Israel,” a
new synagogue in Baltimore, MD “where the ladies of the congregation
established a free school for religious instruction.”
1857:
Hermann Mayer Salomon Goldschmidt discovered Asteroid 48 Doris.
1857:
Hermann Mayer Salomon Goldschmidt discovered Asteroid 49 Pales.
1859:
George Bush “an American biblical scholar, pastor, abolitionist and Christian
Restorationist academic” passed away. Bush, who is reportedly related to the
two Americans of that name “published a book entitled ‘The Valley of Vision;
or, The Dry Bones of Israel Revived’” in 1844. “In it he denounced “the
thralldom and oppression which has so long ground them (the Jews) to the dust,”
and called for “elevating” the Jews “to a rank of honorable repute among the
nations of the earth” by re-creating the Jewish State in the land of Israel.
This, according to Bush, would benefit not only the Jews, but all of mankind,
forming a “link of communication” between humanity and God. “It will blaze in
notoriety...". “It will flash a splendid demonstration upon all kindreds
and tongues of the truth.”
1860(3rd
of Tishrei, 5621): Tzom Gedaliah observed for the last time during the
Presidency of James Buchanan.
1861(15th
of Tishrei, 5622): Sukkoth (I can find no record of a Sukkah being built by
either Union or Confederate troops.)
1861:
Twenty-nine-year-old Philadelphian Myer Asch began serving as a Second
Lieutenant with Company H, of the First Cavalry of the New Jersey Volunteers.
1862:
During the Civil War, Philadelphian Henry Straus began serving as the Assistant
Surgeon in the 150th Regiment popularly known as the “Bucktail
Regiment.”
1862:
In Odessa, Isaac Goward and Rachel Smilaynsky gave birth to birth Mary
Ostrowsky’s husband George Coward who came to the United States in 1882 after
which he became an agent for the Philadelphia committee of the Baron de Hirsch
fund and the Jewish Agricultural and Industrial Aid Society as one of “the
organizers of the Hebrew Literature Society.
1862:
Federal forces under the command of Lt. Colonel Gabriel Netter clashed with a
much larger force of Confederates near Owensboro. Netter refused to surrender and was killed
during the ensuring clash. Netter was one of the many Jews who served in the
Union Army during the Civil War.
1863:
Birthdate of Morris, IL native Louis G. Gump, the Baltimore stockbroker who was
the father of Rosalind G. Wertheimer, the father-in-law of Milton Wertheimer
and the grandfather of Emanuel and Milton Wertheimer, Jr.
1863: During the Civil War, Union and Rebel forces
clash at the Battle of Chickamauga. Frederick Kneffler was cited for bravery at
the battle of Chickamauga. This Jewish resident of Indianapolis, attained the
rank of Major General while commanding the 79th Indiana
1864:
David Michaels who would rise from Corporal to Second Lieutenant began his
service with Company of the 210th Regiment.
1864:
A citation awarding the Medal of Honor to Corporal Isaac Gause, was issued
today for his valor on the battlefield on September 13. The citation was issued
to the Jewish trooper serving with Company, 2nd Ohio Cavalry
“Capture of the colors of the 8th South Carolina Infantry while engaged in a
reconnaissance along the Berryville and Winchester Pike.” This would have meant that Gause was serving
in the Army of the Shenandoah under the command of General Philip
Sheridan. The campaign successfully
drove the Rebels from the Shenandoah Valley which was a key source of supply
for the Confederate Army. Capturing
another unit’s colors was the epitome of success and called for unusual bravery
because in those days military units fought ferociously to avoid having their
flags captured.
1866(10th
of Tishrei, 5626): Yom Kippur
1866(10th
of Tishrei, 5626): Ninety-year-old Priscilla Moses Lopez, the daughter of
Rachel Andrews Woolf and Myer Moses and wife of David Lopez with whom she had
eight children passed away today after which she was buried at the Coming
Street Cemetery in Charleston, SC.
1866:
“Yom Kippur” published today states that “Yesterday at sunset began the most
important of all Jewish” festivals “that of the ‘Yom Kippur,' or Day of
Atonement--a feast which is more generally observed by the Hebrew race
throughout the world than any other of their numerous festivals.”
1867:
Birthdate of Sunderland, England, native Israel Galland who in 1895 came to the
United States after which he settled in Brooklyn,
1868:
In Winnsboro, SC, Simon and Isabel Wolfe Baruch gave birth to New York Stock
Exchange member Hartwig Baruch, the brother of Bernard Baruch who had acted
under the name of “Nathaniel Hartwig” and who had one son and two daughters
with his wife Arline Lennox Baruch whom he married in 1917.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1953/03/02/93603323.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1868(3rd
if Tishrei, 5629)” Parashat Ha’Azinu: Shabbat Shuvah
1868:
When the Battle of Beecher Island came to an end Sigmund Shlesinger a native of
Hungary serving with Forsyth’s Company of Scouts was among the survivors.
1869:
Three days after she had passed way, 60-year-old Rachel (Solomon) Lewis, the
wife of Abraham Lewis was buried today at the “West Ham Jewish Cemetery on
Buckingham Road.”
1870:
The Italian Army laid siege to Rome, the capital of the Papal States. The one-day siege would prove
successful. Rome would become the
capital of a newly unified Italian nation.
And Italy would go from one of the worst places in Europe for Jews to
live to one of the best.
1870:
In New York City, Marcus Witmark and Henrietta Peyser gave birth to Julius P.
Witmark, the husband of Carrie J. Rosenberg who sang as a “boy soprano” until
the age of 15 and later joined the family firm of M. Witmark and Sons, Music
Publishers.
1875(15th
of Tishrei, 5546): Sukkoth
1875:
“Whitewashing Shylock” published today provided a refreshingly different view
of the famed character from the “Merchant of Venice.” The real villains are Antonio, the Merchant
of Venice who was “humbug and a tuft-hunter” who falsely portrayed himself as a
man of wealth and Bassanio. They sought
to cheat Shylock and use the fact that he was a Jewish moneylender to their
advantage. The only weapon left to Shylock was cunning which “he sharpened up
for this occasion.
1876(1st
of Tishrei, 5637): Rosh Hashanah
1876:
In Amsterdam, Isaac Jacob Gans, the Amsterdam born son “of Jacob and Rebecca
Mozes Gans” and his wife Vogeltje Dooseman, gave birth to Rebecca Gans.
1877:
Rabbi Moses Mielziner and Rosetta Levald gave birth to University of Cincinnati
graduate and HUC ordained rabbi who began serving as the spiritual leader of
Congregation Emanu-El at Helena, Montana in 1900.
1878:
In New York, Samuel and Hulda Levi Lasker gave birth to Meyer Lasker the
husband of Charlotte Bussing Lasker, whom he married in 1926.
1879(2nd
of Tishrei, 5640): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1879:
In New York City, Nathan Strauss and Minnie Gladken gave birth to illustrator
Malcolm Atherton Strauss whose works appeared in numerous publications
including Life magazine and the New York Herald.
http://www.allposters.com/-st/Malcolm-A-Strauss-Posters_c40723_.htm
1881:
It was reported today a committee of Jews representing communities all over
Russia has arrived in St. Petersburg with the hopes of meeting with the
Minister of Interior. They plan to present him with a petition asking for “an
official public declaration of liberty for all creeds and suspension…of the
laws sanctioning the expulsion of Jews from certain localities.
1881:
President James Garfield dies from an assassin’s bullet. Garfield was shot by a
disgruntled office seeker named Charles Guiteau. This brought the long simmering battle over
political patronage jobs in the federal government to a boil. Garfield’s death provided the impetus for the
passage of the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act. The Pendleton Act created a system of federal
service positions that were filled based on merit not political patronage. This civil service system based on ability
would provide career opportunities to future generation of Jewish
professionals.
1881:
Vice President Chester Arthur became President of the United States who would champion
the rights of American Jews visiting Russia and who appointed Adolphus Simon to
serve as one of the first two American delegates to the International Congress
of the Red Cross became President of the United States.
1881:
In Schenectady, NY “Isaac Levy, wholesale liquor dealer, and Lewis Behr,
tailor, draped their shops in black for the fallen president” James
Garfield. Jews had already expressed
their sorrow by holding special prayer services at Gates of Heaven when the
President had been shot. (As reported by the Schenectady County Historical
Society)
http://schenectadyhist.wordpress.com/2010/01/12/kaddish-for-president-garfield/
1882:
Two days after she had passed away, Leopolldine (Friedberger) Samuel, the
German born widow of Lambert Samuel was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road
Jewish Cemetery.”
1883:
Birthdate of Berlin native Walter Wasserman, the German filmmaker whose career
spanned twenty years.
1883:
Birthdate of Milwaukee native and Harvard Law School trained attorney, a law
partner of Alvin Tighe from 1913 until January 28, 1931 and a director of the
Federated Jewish Charities.
https://www.amazon.sg/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3ALeon+B+Lamfrom&ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1
1883:
Birthdate of Russian native Abraham Balaban, the husband of Tillie Adamofsky
Balaban.
1884(29th
of Elul, 5644): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1884(29th
of Elul, 5644): In Leadville, CO, Rabbi Sachs, a recent graduate of Hebrew
Union College led the services dedicating the new building that would house
Temple Israel.
1884(29th
of Elul, 5644): Forty-four-year-old
attorney and author Leon da Silva Solis-Cohen, the son of Myer David Cohen and
Judith Simha Solis, the husband of Lucia Mannes Ritterband and veteran of the
Keystone Battery who was medically discharged from the Union Army passed away
today
1884:
One of the major wholesale houses in the clothing trade – Rindskopf Brothers
& Co – failed today. Simon
Rindskopf, Morris Rindskopf, Raphael Buchman and Jacob Rosenthal, the company’s
partner “filed an assignment in the County Clerk’s office for the benefit of
their creditors.”
1885(10th
of Tishrei, 5646): Yom Kippur
1885:
Birthdate of Richard Lert, the Austrian born American “music director and
conductor of the Pasadena Symphony and co-founder of the Music Academy of the
West in California” who was the brother of “stage director Ernst Lert.”
1885:
Rabbi Gottheil is scheduled to deliver the Yom Kippur sermon at Temple Emanu-El
1885:
Rabbi H. P. Mendes is scheduled to deliver the Yom Kippur sermon at the 19th
Street Synagoue.
1885:
Rabbi De Sola Mendes is scheduled to deliver the Yom Kippur sermon at Shaary
Tefila
1885:
Rabbi Kohut is scheduled to deliver the
Yom Kippur sermon at Ahavas Chesed
1885: Rabbi Henry S. Jacob is scheduled to deliver
the Yom Kippur sermon at the Madison Avenue Synagogue.
1885: Rabbi I.C. Noot is scheduled deliver the
Yom Kippur sermon at B’nai Israel on east 4th Street in New York
City.
1886:
It was reported today that “the funeral
of the late Baroness James de Rothschild” had taken place in Paris on September
4th and that her “remains were taken to the grave in a plain hearse
drawn by two horses as were those of her late husband, Jews of the Talmudic Ritual
having a religious objection to costly funerals.
1886:
Three hundred Romanian Jews arrived in New York aboard the SS Egypt.
1887(1st
of Tishrei, 5648): Rosh Hashanah
1887:
Rabbi Gottheil is scheduled deliver the Rosh Hashanah sermon at Temple Emanu-El
1887:
Rabbi H. P. Mendes is scheduled to deliver the Rosh Hashanah sermon at the 19th
Street Synagogue
1887:
Rabbi De Sola Mendes is scheduled to deliver the Rosh Hashanah sermon at the 44th
Street Synagogue
1887:
Rabbi Henry S. Jacobs is scheduled to deliver the Rosh Hashanah sermon at the
Madison Avenue Synagogue. The sermon will be based on the text “Not unto us, O
Lord, not unto us, but unto Thy name give glory, for Thy mercy, and for thy
truth’s sake.”
1887:
Rabbi Kohut scheduled to deliver the Rosh Hashanah sermon at Ahavas Chesed.
1889:
“A Library’s Record” published today provides a description of the success
enjoyed by the Maimonides Library which was established by B’nai B’rith in New
York. In the past year, the library has
acquired 2,781 volumes bringing its total collection to 32,326 books. The percentage of books in circulation has
increased from 32 per cent to 37 per cent.
1890:
Benston Fuerstenbaum, who had spent the last three months in jail on charges of
breach of contract reluctantly, married Goldie Fromner in City Court which had
been decked out with a Chupah under which a rabbi performed the ceremony.
1890:
In Brooklyn Police Commissioner Hayden promised a group of “prominent” Jews
that he would “have a force of police on hand to keep anarchist Johann Most
within bounds” during the protest he is planning on holding on Yom Kippur.
1891(16th
of Elul, 5651): Parashat Ki Tavo
1891(16th
of Elul, 5651): Forty-one-year-old Paris born art critic Gustave Ollendorf, the
Paris born son of Dorthea and Herman G. Ollendorf , the brother Paul Ollendor,
the editor of Gil Blaswho
began working in the ministry of public instruction and fine arts after having
served in the Garde National Mobile during the Franco-Prussian War who was the
author of “Traité de l'Administration des Beaux-Arts" passed away today at
Saint-Cloud.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/11689-ollendorf-gustave
1891: Aaron Jatkowski is being held on charges
of having assaulted Charles Lieberman when the latter sought to stop a drunken
party at the synagogue in Newark, NJ
1891:
Several Jewish families moved away from Milville, NJ, today as the strike
called because Flint and Green Glass Works had hired 14 Jews worsened.
1892:
Alexander Berkman who was being tried for having attempted to assassinate Henry
Clay Frick and who was serving as his own lawyer was brought to the courtroom
where he discovered that the jury had already been empaneled thus depriving of
him a chance to question those who would sit in judgment on him.
1892:
“The Leonard Wing” of the Republican party in New Orleans nominated attorney
Morris Marks who has been head of the Hebrew Widows and Orphan’s Home to run
against Captain Burr Wood, the handpicked candidate of former Governor Warmoth.
1892:
Birthdate of life long New Yorker Fred Ahlert, the law school graduate turned
composer and songwriter whose hits included “I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write
Myself a Letter,” “Walking My Baby Back Home” and “Where the Blue of the Night
Meets the Gold of the Day.”
http://www.jazzbiographies.com/Biography.aspx?ID=1
1893(9th
of Tishrei, 5654): Kol Nidre
1893:
“Rabbi Louis Lustig and a score of laymen” escaped to safety when a fire broke
out on the second floor of a frame building at 180 Rivington Street where they
had been conducting Yom Kippur services.
1893:
A group of Jewish anarchists calling themselves the “Gruppe Proletariat” began
a 24 hour vigil at the Clarendon Ballroom where they spent much of their time
giving speeches denouncing “religion in general and” Judaism in particular.
1894:
Birthdate of Dov Hoz, the native of Orsha who made Aliyah in 1906 and who a
leading labor Zionist, founder of the Haganah and the founder and CEO of
"Aviron," a pioneer of aviation in Israel that trained pilot and
established flight lines in Israel and outside.
https://streetsofisrael.wordpress.com/2014/06/
1894:
In Manhattan, Abraham Schulman, the Minsk born son of Bella and Elijah Schulman
and his wife Molka gave birth to future
Houston, TX resident Nathan Schulman
1895:
According to a list published today, the following charities each received a
bequest of 100 dollars from the late Mrs. Rebecca Kastor: Mount Sinai Hospital,
Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum, Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews, Hebrew
Free School Association, the Ladies Bekuscholm Society and the the Hebrew
Sheltering Guardian Society.
1895(1st
of Tishrei, 5656) Rosh Hashanah
1895:
Approximately 200 Russian Jews arrived in Norwich, CT having traveled there
from Liverpool via Quebec.
1896:
Birthdate of Chicago native and University of Chicago alum Mayer Lipman, the
HUC ordained rabbi and WW I veteran who was a “sponsor of the Association of
Jewish Blind.”
1896(12th
of Tishrei, 5657): Parashat Ha’azinu
1897:
It was reported today that “Curaçaoan-American socialist newspaper editor,
politician, Marxist theoretician, and trade union organizer Daniel De Leon, the
son of Salomon De Leon, the person to be buried in Curaco’s new Jewish cemetery
was among the speakers at the mass meeting in Union Square in support of the miners
who were shot in Lattimer, PA.
1898:
“Anti-Semitic Movement Threatening In Algeria” published today described the
attempts undermine the well-being of the Jewish community there including the
rising influence of Édouard Adolphe Drumont, the founder of the Anti-Semitic
League of France and the plans of the new Governor “to suppress the Jewish Consistories in
Algeria.”
1898:
Stanford E. Moses who had served as Assistant Engineer aboard the U.S.S.
Brooklyn during the Spanish-American War was promoted today Passed Assistant
Engineer and assigned to the U.S.S. Oregon.
1898:
Ensign William O. Cohn was discharged from the U.S. Navy today.
1899:
L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican's official newspaper, runs a story about a
Christian boy found dead in Hungary, his blood drained out by Jews who wanted
it for their ghastly, superstitious rituals
1899(15th
of Tishrei, 5660): Sukkoth
1899:
Sixty-six-year-old Auguste Scheurer-Kestner, the French Protestant political
leader who became a staunch defender of Dreyfus passed away today.
1899:
Following a passionate campaign by his supporters, including leading artists
and intellectuals like Émile Zola, Dreyfus was pardoned by President Émile
Loubet and released from prison
1899:
“The mass meeting that is being organized by Maurice Blumenthal…’to protest
against the action of the Dreyfus court-martial and to have the wrong right’”
which will include speeches by Jews and non-Jews is scheduled to be held this
evening at Cooper Union.
1899(15th
of Tishrei, 5660): Eighty-two-year-old Charles Patrick Daly, author of The
Settlement of Jews in North America, passed away today.
1900:
Butch Cassidy, who gained fame as one of the anti-heroes in the film “Butch
Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” starring Paul Newman and with music by Burt
Bacharach, and his gang robbed the
First National Bank of Winnemucca, Nevada, taking $32,640 with $31,000 of it in $20 gold pieces
1901: Birthdate of Hungarian born, American movie
producer Joseph Pasternak. His more than ninety movies include Anchors Away and Date With Judy.
1901:
As memorial services were held today for the late President William McKinley,
approximately five hundred Jews attended services at the Sons of Israel
Synagogue, where Rabbi Leventhal led prayers for Teddy Roosevelt who was now
President of the United States.
1901:
In Charleston, SC, Rabbi B.A. Elzas officiated at the wedding of Sam T. Weil
and Hattie Sternberg.
1902:
This evening, The British Foreign Office authorized the announcement that his
Majesty's Government had communicated with all the signatory powers of the
Berlin Treaty with a view to developing their attitude and purpose in relation
to the Roumanian Jews, as called to the attention of the powers by United
States Secretary of State Hay.”
1903(27th
of Elul, 5663): Seventy-year-old German Jewish businessman Ernst Jacob Oppert
best known for his attempt to use the remains of deceased Korean to create a
business advantage, passed away today.
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2010/07/113_69896.html
1904(10th
of Tishrei, 5665): Yom Kippur
1904:
Birthdate of Avot Yeshurun, a Ukrainian born “Israeli poet who wove Arabic and
Yiddish idiom into a unique and influential form of Hebrew verse.”
1905:
In Zurich communist writer Erich Vallentin and his wife gave birth to Judith
Vallentin who as Judith Auer would become a fighter against the Nazis – a
stance for which she would be hung in 1944.
1906(29th
of Elul, 5666): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1906:
Congregation Temple Israel held services tonight in the Calvary Methodist
Episcopal Church because it “had no temple of its own in which to celebrate its
Rosh Hashanah services” because “its new temple which being erected at Lenox
Avenue and 12th Street will not be ready until next February.”
1907(11th
of Tishrei, 5668): Sixty-four-year-old “Major Louis Alexander Gratz,” the son
of “Salomon and Henrietta Gratz” passed away today after which he was buried in
Knoxville, TN.
1907:
After three years, Hyman Liberman completed his service as Mayor of Cape Town.
1908(23rd
of Elul, 5668): Parashat Nitzavim-Vayelich; Leil Selichot
1908:
“The Bank of England has had a bad year from a money-making point of view”
which Sir Israel Hart, Chairman of
the Hart and Levy Company, said was attributed to a singular phase of
commerce during which money had been for several months at a low rate and
during which there had also been a depression of trade.
1908:
Sixty-nine-year-old Liverpool native Louisa Nelson Harrison, the wife of
Gustave Harrison whom she married in 1858 with whom she had eight children –
Theresa, Rebecca, Abraham, Rachel, Newton Philip, Gertrude and Leon who served
as the Rabbi of Temple Israel in St. Louis for 35 years – passed away today in
New York after which she buried at the Union Field Cemetery in Ridgewood, NY.
1908:
Birthdate of Victor Frederick Weisskopf an Austrian-born Jewish American
theoretical physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and then later worked
to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/25/obituaries/25WEIS.html
1909(4th
of Tishrei, 5670): Tzom Gedaliah observed
1909:
Birthdate of Richard Edward “Dick” Fishel, the star University of Syracuse
football player who went to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers, a team in the NFL.
1909:
It was reported today that Rabbi A.R. Levy of Chicago “has obtained control of
a large track of land in Georgia” which he plans on making available to “Jewish
immigrants who want to become farmers.”
1910:
In New York City, Bessie Ida Ginsberg and movie producer Jesse Lasky, Sr. gave
birth to author Jesse L. Lasky, Jr.
1911:
An agreement was reached that ended the strike of garment makers guaranteeing
that high fashioned clothing will be available for the fall and winter
seasons. The employers were represented
by Julius Henry Cohen and the workers were represented by Meyer London. Men of the quality of Louis Brandeis and
Louis Marshall will serve on the Board of Arbitration established by the
settlement.
1911:
In London, England the Behtnal Green Board of Guardians reverses its previous
decision to reject the bid of Jewish contractors, but the Jews decided not to
accept the contract.
1912(8th
of Tishrei, 5673): Sixty-four-year-old Rabbi Abraham Guranowsky, the Polish
born son Gertrude and Israel Guranowsky and the husband of Bertha Guranowsky
who came to New York 43 years ago where he was one of the founders of Beth
Israel Synagogue and also one of “the founders of Beth Israel and Beth David
Hospital passed away today.
https://kevarim.com/rabbi-avroham-guranowsky/
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1912/09/21/100376495.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=
1912(8th
of Tishrei, 5673): Mrs. Lina Scheindling passed away today.
1913:
David and Eva Cohen, both of whom were buried in the Ahavash Sholom cemetery in
Baltimore County, MD, gave birth to Aaron Cohen
1914:
Erev Shabbat, the German 9th Army was formed near Breslau so that it
could support its weaker Austrian ally in the fight against the Russians on the
Eastern Front.
1915:
It was reported today Leon Sanders of President of the Hebrews Sheltering and
Immigrant Aid Society had spoken at the afternoon Yom Kippur service being held
for 100 Jews at the immigration station on Ellis Island on the topic “The Od
World and the New.”
1916:
It was reported today that the Federation for the Support of Jewish
Philanthropic Societies “was organized recently for the purpose of collecting
and receiving donations for member society or for equitable distribution among
them, it being the idea of the organizers that more could be obtained for
philanthropic work through a pooling of interests and that the distribution of
benefits would be more businesslike.”
(Editor’s Note – sounds like a one hundred year old description of the
reasons for the existence of United Way.)
1916:
In New York, Dr. Rachmiel Auerbach, and Sonia Lubove Kamenetsky, a feminist and
Labor Zionist gave birth to Hilda Auerbach who gained fame as poet Hilda Morely
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/hilda-morley
http://www.jstor.org/stable/2928082?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
1917(3rd
of Tishrei, 5678): Tzom Gedaliah
1917:
Anti-Jewish riots in Tunis cause five Jews to be injured, and their shops
pillaged and vandalized.
1917:
Furloughs granted to U.S. soldiers and sailors so that they could observe the
Jewish New Year came to an end.
1918:
The British under General Allenby began the last major offensive against the
Turks in that part of the Ottoman Empire that would later include the state of
Israel. The Jewish Brigade would play an
active role in this campaign, which would include the conquest of the land east
of the Jordan and all the way to Damascus.
1918:
In Chicago, Rose Alice Alschuler, the daughter of Charles and Mary Haas, and
Alfred Samuel Alschler gave birth to John H. Alschuler
1918:
Once again, another Battle of Megiddo begins – this time it is the Ottomans
versus the British Imperial forces fighting on the biblical battlefield.
1918:
Abraham Blaustein who “immortalized in a poem ‘Blaustein of the Irish” by John
O’Keefe was promoted to the rank of Sergeant while serving on the Western Front
with the 165th Regiment which had originally been the 69th
or “Irish” Regiment.
1919:
According to an “immigration day” today is the date when Enoch Hochberg and his
wife Clara who had previously lived in Russia, emigrated from the United States
to Canada.
1919:
Birthdate of Marek Edelman, “the only son of a family that spoke Yiddish at
home and at work” who was a cardiologist
and the last surviving commander of the
1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising against the Germans” (As reported by Michael Kaufman)
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/03/world/europe/03edelman.html
1920:
In Worcester, Ma, the delegations attending a meeting of the Jewish
Co-Operative Society today “adopted resolutions call on the United States
Government to free all political prisoners and to recognize the Soviet
Government of Russia.”
1920:
Felix M. Warburg of New York, the Chairman of the Joint Distribution Committee
for American Jewish Relief Funds is in Paris where he has endeavored “to
impress Jewish leaders in Europe with the necessity of discouraging European
Jews from flocking to the United States, in ordered to keep Jewish emigration
withing reasonable limits.”
1921:
It was reported today that the Palestinian Arab delegation in London has sent a
cable to President Harding asking, “him to save the Mohammedan and Christian
inhabitants of the Holy Land from what the cable calls ‘the Jewish peril.’”
1921:
In Cleveland Jewish immigrants Rose and Simon Mandel gave birth to Case University educated “American
businessman and philanthropist Morton Leon Mandel” the husband of Barbar
Mandel” and co-founder of the Premier Automotive Supply Company who created the
Mandel Foundation.
https://www.jewishcleveland.org/news/blog/remembering_morton_l_mandel/
1921:
In New York, Sylvan G. Robison, the “son of Gerson Podrabinek Robison and Seine
Robison and his wife Dr. Sophia (Sophie) P. Robison gave birth to Dr.
Robert
Selig Steinhardt Robison, the “husband of Eileen Hannah Robison.”
1921:
It was reported today that an Arab delegation “is in London in an effort to
have the British Government renounce its pro-Zionist policy.”
1922:
In Bogalusa, LA, a lumber mill town on the border with Mississippi, Eva
(Singerman) Berenson and Meyer Berenson, who went from peddler to clothing
store owner (sound familiar) gave birth to Gerald Sanders Berenson the Tulane
University trained cardiologist who was an expert on the relationship between
childhood behavior and heart disease. (As reported by Sam Roberts)
1923(9th
of Tishrei, 5684): Erev Yom Kippur
1923:
This evening, at Kol Nidre services, rabbis made pleas “for a number of Jewish
causes” including “the fund for the Jewish Theological Seminary, the Palestine
Foundation Fund, the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic
Societies and the American Jewish Relief Committee.”
1924:
Today, “at the 7th Berkshire Festival of Chamber Music, the Lenox
Quarter” co-founded by its first violinist Sandor Harmati, “took part in the
first performance of “La Belle Dame Sans Merci.”
1924:
Birthdate of Paris native and author Jacques Lusseyran who despite his blindness
became a leader in the French resistance during WW II and miraculously survived
imprisonment in Buchenwald. (Editor’s
note: It is important to remember those who resisted the Nazis regardless of
their religion)
1925(1st
of Tishrei, 6586): Rosh Hashanah
1925:
In “Bread Givers Paints Vivid Scene” published today Fanny Butcher claimed that
Bread Givers“a three-volume novel by Anzia Yezierska “narrates the life of poverty in the struggle for success
and education calling it a Cinderella story.”
1925:
At Temple Ansche Chesed, Dr. Jacob Kohn delivered a sermon on “God and Man as
the Builders of a People.”
1925:
At the Montefiore Congregation in the Bronx, “Dr. Jacob Katz, the Jewish
chaplain at Sing Sing spoke about the significance of the Shofar.”
1925:
At Shaary Tefila in Far Rockaway, Dr. Norman Sale told congregates that “The
call of the shofar rouses us to self-investigation” compelling “us to hark back
to the days of Sinai’s breathless experience.”
1925:
At the Institutional Synagogue, Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein told congregants
that “the Jews the world over hear this day the sounding of the Shofar as a
call to awake from spiritual lethargy to spiritual zeal and to arouse us to
repent and resolve to lead and to live a life full of faith, piety and good
deeds.”
1925:
At Congregation B’nai Jeshurun, Dr. Israel Goldstein delivered a sermon on “The
Jew Today” in which he said “the most obvious contrast between the conditions
of the Jew today and his condition 100 years ago when our congregation was
founded is the situation in Palestine, the land of eternal promise.”
1926:
Today, “the Brodsky synagogue of Kief, the biggest synagogue in the Ukraine,
was officially transformed in a workers’ club by the Kief Soviet at the request
of the Jewish Communists who showed their appreciation of this action by a big
demonstration in the streets.”
1926:
Relatives and friends are scheduled to visit Henry Levy, a resident of the
United Home for Aged Hebrews in New York today which is his 103rd
birthday.
1927:
In Brooklyn, NY, attorney and WW I veteran Abraham Brown and “Gertrude (Cohen)
Brown, a diamond merchant’s bookkeeper” gave birth to Columbia trained
physicist Harold Brown, the 14th United States Secretary of Defense.
1927(22nd
of Elul, 5687): Seventy-three-year-old, Amherst College graduate and Vice
President, managing editor and publisher of the Washington Evening Star,
Rudolph Kauffman the Zanesville, OH born
son of the late Samuel Hay Kauffmann,
president of The Evening Star Newspaper Company and husband of the former Josie
Kennedy “died suddenly today of heart disease.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1927/09/20/98419927.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1928:
“The New Moon,” an operetta with music by Sigmund Romberg and book and lyrics
by Oscar Hammerstein II, Frank Mandel, and Laurence Schwab opened on Broadway
at the Imperial Theatre.
1929:
New York attorney Jonah Goldstein and his wife arrived in Palestine aboard the
SS Bremen. Goldstein had been sent by
Jewish organizations in the United States to assess the philanthropic needs of
the community in Eretz Israel and to report on the real facts behind the Arab
violence including the behavior of the British mandatory government.
1929:
According to the Jerusalem correspondent of the London Financial News,
the total amount of damages from the recent Arab inspired violence in Palestine
will exceed five million dollars.
Damages in Hebron are reported to be in excess of three quarters of a
million dollars.
1929:
In an article telegraphed tonight, “the Jerusalem correspondent of The Daily
Mail reports that continuance of peace ‘hangs by a slender thread.’” Furthermore, the situation is so tense, that
the only guarantee of security lies with the presence of a British military
presence.
1930:
Dr. Louis I Newman was inducted tonight as rabbi of the Congregation Rodeph
Shalom, succeeding Dr. Rudolph Grossman who was rabbi for thirty years until
his death in 1927.”
1930:
Mrs. A. H. Fromenson, chairman of the Palestine Supplies Bureau announced today
that a Rosh Hashanah gift of $1,500 for the purchase of shoes and clothing for
needy persons in Palestine has been cabled by Palestine Supplies Bureau of
Hadassah to its representatives in Palestine.
1931:
Final session of the 154th New York State Legislature in which Carol
Pack represented the third district of Bronx County in the State Assembly.
1932:
“Part of the work being done by some of the Hadassah's medical departments in
Palestine is superior to that of similar agencies in Europe and America,
particularly in the field of school hygiene, Dr. Haim Yassky said today at one
of the sessions of the eighteenth annual convention of Hadassah, national
women's Zionist organization, at the Hotel Commodore.”
1933:
“The belief that the condition of the Jews in Germany is becoming increasingly
worse was expressed by Morris Rothenberg, president of the ZOA, who returned
today on the French line Ile de France from the World Zionist Congress at
Prague.”
1933:
According to announcement made today by Dr. Jonah B. Wise, national chairman of
the fund-raising committee, “The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
received pledges amounting to $1,102,038 between January 1 and September 15 for
the German Relief Fund.
1934(10th
of Tishrei, 5695): Yom Kippur
1934:
A German carpenter, Bruno Hauptmann, who would be prosecuted by Attorney
General David T. Wilentz, the Jewish immigrant from Latvia, was arrested today
in connection with the kidnapping of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., the infant son
of “The Lone Eagle.”
1934:
Detroit outfielder and slugger Hank Greenberg refuses to play on Yom Kippur.
1934:
Birthdate of Brian Epstein, manager of the Beatles.
1935:
“The plight of the Jews in Germany was brought before the League of Nations by
the Committee of Jewish Delegations today in an appeal that "the
conscience of mankind will not tolerate that Jews should be degraded in this
century as pariahs."
1935:
In a radio address tonight on Station WMCA, Mrs. Richard Percy Limburg, the
chairman of the women’s division of the UJA said that “because the Reich
Department of Education has decreed the segregation of Jewish children, special
schools will have to built in Germany for 25,000 Jewish children…”
1936:
Birthdate of Cyril Kitchener Harris, the Glasgow, Scotland native who served as
Chief Rabbi of South Africa from 1987 to 2004.
1936:
Seventy-five-year-old Meier Dizengoff, the Mayor of Tel Aviv, is stricken with
pneumonia. The illness will prove fatal.
1936:
“Dr. Alexander Rosenfeld, vice president of the Maccabee Sports Organization,
the governing sports body in Palestine,” today described “an ambitious sports
program now under way in Palestine” that has at is objective participation in
the 1940 Olympic Games to be held in Japan.
1936:
Today “at a meeting of Cabinet Ministers including Foreign Secretary Anthony
Eden and Malcolm MacDonald, Dominions…it was decided to delay making a
declaration on martial law in Palestine until the situation further develops.”
1936:
In Romania, “a military court sentenced five Jews two of whom were women, to
ten years’ imprisonment for having shouted ‘Down with fascism!’ during a
demonstration on the city’s main street.”
1937:
The Palestine Post reported that
Palestine Arabs welcomed the statement made by Egyptian Foreign Minister Butrus
Ghali Pasha, expressing firm opposition to the country's partition. The Arabs
declared that they might boycott the new League of Nations Commission which was
expected to come to Palestine for an ad-hoc inquiry on how to effect and
determine details of such partition.
1937(14th
of Tishrei, 5698): Erev Sukkot
1937(14th
of Tishrei, 5698): Fifty-nine-year-old Odessa native Samuel Goldstein, who
appeared in English and Yiddish films in the United States from 1912 until 1937
passed away
1938:
Two days after he had passed away, a funeral is scheduled to be held today for
Pittsburgh attorney A. Leo Weil.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1938/09/18/99561926.pdf
https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/weil-leo
1938:
In a case of Jew v. Jew Robert Moses, Commissioner of Parks, challenged Stanley
M. Isaacs, Borough President of Manhattan, today to provide a plan of his own
to handle the increased downtown traffic expected to result from construction
of the proposed Battery-to-Brooklyn tunnel.”
1939:
German forces occupied the Polish city of Lukow and began killing the local
Jews.
1940:
Nazi decree forbidding non-Jews to work for Jews in their homes or businesses
was promulgated. This ban included
forbidding gentile women from working in Jewish homes, which seems a little odd
given the conditions under which the Jews were living by 1940.
1941:
In Baltimore, “Phillip Cohen and his wife the former Bessie Levine” gave birth
to Ellen Naomi Cass, who changed her name to Cass Elliot and moved to New York
and gained fame as Mama Cass singing with the Mamas and the Pappas.
https://jwa.org/thisweek/sep/19/1943/birth-of-mama-cass-elliot
1941:
Birthdate of Swiss filmmaker Markus Imhoof who “won a Silver Bear prize…for
‘The Boat is Full’” a movie that portrayed “Switzerland’s decision to send
Jewish refugees back to certain death in Germany during World War Two.”
https://www.algemeiner.com/2018/02/23/a-wartime-tragedy-resurfaces-in-berlinale-refugee-study/
1941:
Germany captured Kiev. This military victory opened one of the darkest chapters
of the Holocaust.
1941(27th of Elul, 5701): Thousands of Jews
are murdered at Zhitomir, Ukraine
1941: As per the Nazi decree of
1942(8th
of Tishrei, 5703): Shabbat Shuva
1942(8th
of Tishrei, 5703): Seventy-five-year-old Gustav Kahn died today at Treblinka.
1942(8th
of Tishrei, 5703): Seventy-three-year-old Solomon “Sol” Peyser, the son of
Philip Peyser and Natalie Ann Kilinski and the husband of Eva Dux who had
served as President of Rodef Shalom in Newport News, VA, passed today following
which he was buried in Washington, DC, his hometown.
1942:
Three thousand Jews of Tuczyn were ordered into a ghetto. Five days later
Germans and Ukrainians raided the ghetto. As resistance is put up by a small
band of Jews armed with axes and petrol resisted the attack. Two thousand Jews
made their escape to the forests. One thousand of them were found and shot.
Three hundred starving women and children came back to the ghetto. In all, only
15 would survive the war.
1942:
Today, as captured on film, the local police deported the Jews from Hollerich,
Luxemburg.
http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/september/10.asp
1943:
“A resolution calling for "continued and ever-growing collaboration
between the Soviet Union and the United States" was adopted unanimously”
tonight “by 1,500 persons attending a farewell dinner at the Hotel Commodore in
honor of Prof. Solomon Michoels and Lieut. Col. Itzik Feffer, members of the
Jewish delegation from the Soviet Union, who are departing after a three-month
tour of this country,”
1943:
In “A Dramatic Novel-Biography of the Apostle Paul” published today Edward
Wagenknecht provided a complete review of The Apostle by the Jewish
author Sholem Asch.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1943/09/19/83942944.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1943:
The 48th national convention of the Jewish War Veterans of the
United States where the group began its campaign to sell $12,000,000 in war
loan bonds came to a closed today in Kiamseha, NY.
1944(2nd
of Tishrei, 5705): Rosh Hashanah II
1944:
After the Danish polices balked at providing the protection demanded by the
Nazis the German army arrested 1,960 policemen and deported them to German
concentration and prisoner-of-war camps. (These are the same Danes who a year
earlier had rescued most of their Jewish countrymen and took them to Sweden.)
1944(2nd
of Tishrei, 5705): Almost the entire population of the Klooga Camp was killed
in the German attempt to silence the witnesses. The number included 1,500 Jews
and 800 Russian prisoners-of-war.
1944(2nd
of Tishrei, 5705): “A few days before the Soviet army liberated the Klooga
slave labor camp in Estonia, the Germans and their Estonian collaborators began
1 four-day killing spree that would claim the lives of more than 2,000 Jews”
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/september/13.asp
1944:
The Continuation War, the sideshow to WW II fought between the Finns and the
Soviets came to an end today when the Finns surrendered to the Russians. The Finns had been forced to ally themselves
with the Germans, since the Allies had refused to come to their aid when the
Russians invaded the country. There were
Jews serving in Finland’s Army which ironically meant that the Nazis had
“Jewish allies.”
1944: In Tel Aviv, Moshe Sneh, one of the
leaders of the Haganah and his wife gave birth to Efriam Sneh who would have
made any Jewish mother proud since he was both a doctor and a general in the
IDF.
1945: Birthdate of musician David Bromberg.
Bromberg grew up in Tarrytown, New York. Inspired by the music of Pete Seeger
and the Weavers, among others, he began studying the guitar at age 13. After
graduating from Tarrytown High School, he enrolled at Columbia University
intent on a career as a musicologist. According to one critic, the man who
backed up Bob Dylan “fits no pigeonholes. He is part of everything
contemporarily musical. He is a product of blues, country, jazz, folk, and
classical music. From his early success as a guitar virtuoso, Mr. Bromberg has
developed into a brilliant entertainer.”
1945:
Eighty-three-year-old Edward Swann, the New York District Attorney who
appointed Rose Rothenberg to serve as the first woman deputy assistant on his
staff from which position she “will have special charge of the cases involving
girls and women in the local criminal courts.”
1946:
“The British proposed an amendment to the Rumanian treaty today which would
grant to Jewish victims of Naz-inspired laws and policies full compensation for
property osses and other damaged suffered during the period of Rumania’s
association with the Axis.”
1947:
“Harold Trowb, head of the American Joint Distribution Committee in Vienna,
charged tonight that "horrible and shocking" experiments had been
made on Jewish children in a Vienna hospital, but the hospital's chief surgeon,
Dr. Joseph Zikowski, said the experiments had been "perfectly legal."
1947:
“Reliable sources reported” tonight “that the executive of the British Labor
party in London had voted to support the majority report of the United Nations
Special Committee of Inquiry on Palestine, including its recommendation for
partition of the Holy Land.”
1948:
Laurence Steinhardt completed his service as U.S. ambassador to Czechoslovakia.
1949:
“Eddie Cantor raised $1,253,800 for the United Jewish Appeal” today “at a
luncheon meeting in the Commodore Hotel” which “added to $1,800,000 previously
contributed since the actor started a "barnstorming" cross-country
tour to raise $5,000,000 toward the national appeal goal of $250,000,000, this
brings his total to $3,053,800.”
1950:
More than one thousand peoples including the acting Mayor of New York, Foreign
Minister Sharett, Ambassador “Aubrey Eban, Counsel General Arthur Lourie, a
delegation of the city’s jurists and leaders of the Jewish community attended
funeral services led by Rabbi Edward E. Klein for City Magistrate and Zionist
leader Morris Rothenberg at the Stephen S. Wise Free Syngagouge.
1950:
CBS broadcast the first episode of “Danger” a drama anthology series for which
Sidney Lumet directed “hundreds of episodes.”
1950:
“The Toast of New Orleans” a musical directed by Norman Taurog, produced by Joe
Pasternak, with a script co-authored by Sy Gomberg and music by Nicholas
Brodszky premiered in New Orleans.
1951:
The Israeli Cabinet approved submitting an offer to sign non-aggression pacts
with her four Arab neighbors to the United Nations Palestine Conciliation
Commission meeting in Paris.
1951:
The 37th annual convention of Hadassah comes to a close in Atlantic
City, NJ. During the convention, Mrs.
Samuel W. Halprin, national president of Hadassah, presented “an analysis of
the future role of the Zionist movement and the stand taken on various
controversial issues that were discussed at the World Zionist Congress.” Mrs. Halprin had led the 32 member Hadassah
delegation to that recently held meeting.
1951:
According to a survey conducted by the government of Israel that was released
today, ‘rationed and other available supplies constituting Israel’s austerity
food basket in 1950 provided adequate nourishment…However, part of the public
faced malnutrition because it could not afford buy all the supplies to which it
is entitled or because it rejected part of the austerity diet because of food
habits.” The team used the consumption
of 2,400 calories as the baseline and a quarter of those interviewed in the
sample consumed 2,400 or fewer calories per day. [Ed. Note: For those who have only known
Israel as prosperous nation with a reasonably high standard of living, it may
come as a shock that economic privation was the order of the day during much of
state’s early years of existence.]
1952(29th
of Elul, 5712): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1952:
The Jerusalem Post announced that Dr.
E.F. Shinnar, who led the Israeli delegation to the reparation talks at The
Hague, was expected to accept the post of the head of the Israeli Reparations
Purchasing Mission in Germany. He had just completed successful negotiations
with British oil companies concerning regular oil deliveries to Israel from
German sterling credits placed at Israel's disposal for the next two years.
1952:
The US bars Charlie Chaplin from reentering the country after a trip to England
1952:
Television debut of “The Adventures of Superman” – the small screen version of
the legendary hero created by two Jewish boys, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in
1938.
1953(10th
of Tishrei, 5714): Yom Kippur observed for
the first time during the Presidency of Dwight David Eisenhowser.
1954:
“The seventh season of Philco Television Playhouse began” tonight with a
performance of Paddy Chafefsky’s “Middle of the Night” which would open on
Broadway in 1956 with Edward G. Robinson (born Emanuel Goldenberg) in the
leading male role.
1955(3rd
of Tishrei, 5716): Tzom Gedaliah
1955(3rd
of Tishrei, 5716): Forty-six-old Oscar Eli Goldstein, the Baltimore born son of
Leah and Meyer Goldstein and brother of Anna Goldstein Kruger who passed away
today in West Palm Beach and then was buried at the Rodfe Zedek Cemetery in
Baltimore.
1956:
Birthdate of Dr. Jodi Magness, the holder of a B.A. in Archaeology and History
from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem “the Kenan Distinguished Professor for
Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill who has overseen “digs” at Masada, Khirbet Yattir, Yotvata and
Huqoq.
1956:
ITV broadcast the first episode of “The Buccaneers” a dramatic series
co-produced by Hannah Weinstein.
1956:
Birthdate of Cairo native Lucette Matalon Lagnado, the Wall Street Journal
reporter and wife of fellow journalist Douglas Feiden.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/longtime-journal-reporter-lucette-lagnado-dies-at-62-11562885316
1957:
In Tel Aviv, athletes began another day
of competition in the Maccabiah Games.
1958:
ITV broadcast the first episode of “The Larkins” starring David Kossoff.
1960(27th
of Elul, 5720): Seventy-year-old Gerald Rufus Isaacs, 2nd Marquess of Reading
the British barrister who held several positions under Prime Ministers
Churchill and Eden including Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and was the
husband of Eva Violet Mond, the daughter of the 1st Baron Melchett
passed away today leaving the way open for his son Michael to assume his
titles.
1961(9th
of Tishrei, 5722): Kol Nidre is chanted for the first time during the
Presidency of John Kennedy.
1961:
Sixty-three-year-old “Isidore Dillon, a Yiddish poet active for many years in
Yiddish literary and poetry circles and a member of the staff of the JTA”
passed away today
1961:
NBC broadcast the first episode of “Cain’s Hundred,” a crime series with
scripts by Eliot Asinof, Fred Freiberg, directed by Irvin Kershner, Sydney
Pollack and Boris Sagal, and featuring appearances by Edward Asner, Martin
Balsam, Sammy Davis, Jr., Jack Klugman, Leonard Nimoy, Norman Fell and Don
Rickles.
1963(1st
of Tishrei, 5724): Rosh Hashanah
1963:
In Rye, UK, Sarah Venetia d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, the daughter of Sir Henry Joseph
d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, 2nd Baronet, DSO and Rosemary Margaret d'Avigdor-Goldsmid
passed away today in a sailing mishap.
http://www.kentlive.news/church-window-reveals-artist-s-grief-child/story-18812925-detail/story.html
1963: The Dodgers'
regular rotation called for Sandy Koufax
to work the last game. But Koufax refused because he does not pitch on the
Jewish holidays.
1964(13th
of Tishrei, 5725): Parashat Ha’Azinu
1964(13th
of Tishrei, 5725): Fifty-four-year-old Mannheim, Germany native and Heidelberg
trained attorney Frank L. Auerbach who in 1938 fled Nazi Germany and came to
the United States where he earned a master’s in social work from Columbia and
became an expert on immigration law while raising two sons – Ernest and Steven
– with his wife Gertrude passed away today.
1964:
Michael Roemer’s “Nothing But a Man” co-starring Yaphet Kotto was released today
at the New York Film Festival.
1966(5th
of Tishrei, 5727): Seventy-one-year-old Frank J. Cohen, the dentist who served
as director of the “Lavenburg-Corner Youth House” and a “Consultant on
Community Relations” with NYU passed away today in his native New York City.
1967(14th
of Elul, 5727):Seventy-six-year-old Lithuanian born Israeli journalist and
editor Ruvn Rubinshteyn who spent three years
as a prisoner in a Siberian labor camp before settling in Israel “where he was
director of Yiddish broadcasting on state radio “Kol yisroel” and “wrote on
general political, legal, Jewish, and Zionist themes using te pen names: R. R.,
Karmi, Ben, and Nobody passed away today in Tel Aviv.
https://congressforjewishculture.org/people/621/Rubinshteyn-Ruvn-June-16-1891-September-19-1967
1968:
U.S. Premiere of William Wyler’s “Funny Girl” a musical based on the life of
Fanny Brice starring Barbra Streisand.
1968(26th
of Elul, 5728): One member of the IDF was killed and 4 of his comrades were
wounded in a terrorist ambush near Jenin.
1969:
“Marlowe” a detective movie reminiscent of the 1940’s genre featuring music by
Peter Matz was released in Germany today.
1969:
Time publishes “The War and the Woman”
http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,901451,00.html#paid-wall
1970:
Today, Durham, NC born Christopher Robert Browning, the University of North
Carolina history professor and “specialist in the Holocaust” married Jennifer
Jane Horn with whom he had two daughters.
1970:
“There Was A Crooked Man” a dark, comedic western directed and produced by
Joseph Mankiewicz and starring Kirk Douglas was released in France today.
1971(29th
of Elul, 5731): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1971:
William F. Albright passes away at the age of 80. This American Methodist
archaeologist was Professor of Semitic languages at Johns Hopkins for nearly 30
years, he penned over 1,000 articles and books and led several Near Eastern
expeditions which excavated the biblical sites of Gibeah, Bethel and Petra.
Albright was not Jewish, but his work has certainly had its impact on our
understanding of how the ancient Israelites might have lived.
1972(11th of Tishrei, 5733): A parcel bomb sent to Israeli Embassy
in London kills one diplomat.
1973: A memorial service is scheduled to held today at the Ethical
Culture Society a 2 West 64th Street in New York for seventy-four-year-old
New York native and Brooklyn Law School of St. Lawrence University trained
attorney Edwin . Lukas, “a former director of national affairs for the American
Jewish Committee and an early exponent of the involvement of Jews in the civil
rights movement” who as the father of Pulitzer Prize winning reporter J. Anthony
Lukas and television producer William Lukas and the cousin of actor Paul Lukas.
1974: Drummer Max “Weinberg's first public performance came today,
at The Main Point in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.”
1975: “Alexander Slepak, 23, elder son of Moscow activist Vladimir
Slepak, was sent to prison on charges of “loitering.”
1975: In France, Jews begin a weeklong show of solidarity with the
Jews in the Soviet Union.
1976: Violinist Issac Stern is scheduled to meet up with friends
at Carnegie Hall for a chamber music concert.
1976(24th of Elul, 5736): Proving that some people never really retire, Rabbi Moses J. Shragowitz of Congregation Knesset Tifereth
Israel in Port Chester, N.Y., passed away today in Glenville, Conn., while
conducting a memorial service. He was 81 years old and had served the Port
Chester congregation since 1937.
1976(24th of Elul, 5536): Ninety-year-old Yehezkel
Abrmasky, the Lithuanian born rabbi who served five years in Siberia for
opposing Stalin before arriving in London where he served as head of the United
Synagogue’s Beth Din from 1935 to 1951 and then retired in Jerusalem, passed
away today.
1977:
The Jerusalem Post reported that
fund-raisers abroad agreed to help Prime Minister Menachem Begin to finance
housing for 45,000 Israeli families living in sub-standard flats. Begin asked
the UJA contributors to double their efforts in honor of the state's 30th
anniversary.
1977:
Ed Koch won the Democratic Mayoral Runoff Primary today.
1977:
At a meeting between President Carter and Foreign Minister Dayan in Washington,
Carter renewed his opposition to any more settlements on the West Bank.
1980(9th
of Tishrei, 5741): Erev Yom Kippur
1980:
“Ordinary People” co-starring Judd Hirsh, featuring Dinah Manoff, with music by
Marvin Hamlisch was released in the United States today by Paramount Pictures.
1980:
“Fifty-three-year-old Moscow refusenik Dmitri Shchiglik, a mechanical engineer,
was sentenced to one year imprisonment on charges of “parasitism.”
1980:
“Melvin and Howard” a comedy written by Bo Goldman was released today in the
United States by Universal Pictures.
1981:
Simon and Garfunkel reunited for a concert in New York City's Central Park.
1981:
The American Jewish Theater at the 92d Street Y is scheduled open its new
season of five plays today with a revival of Heinar Kipphardt's ''In the Matter
of J. Robert Oppenheimer,'' directed by Robert Brink.
1982(2nd
of Tishrei, 5743): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1984:
NBC broadcast “Highway to Heaven,” created by, directed by and starring Michael
Landon.
1984:
Birthdate of Danny Valencia the Miami native who played baseball at UNC,
Greensboro and the University of Miami before being drafted by the Minnesota
Twins in 2010.
1986:
“Where the River Runs Black” an American movie filmed entirely in Brazil
produced by Joe Roth was released today in the United States.
1988:
Israel launched its first satellite for secret military reconnaissance.
1990(29th
of Elul, 5750): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1990:
“An angry debate between opinion-page columnists took an unusual turn” today
“when the New York Post attack Patrick J. Buchanan in an editorial next to his
column” in which “The Post said that ‘when it comes to Jews a group,’ Mr.
Buchanan ‘betrays an all-too-familiar hostility’” which A.M. Rosenthal had
previously labeled as anti-Semitism.
1991:
NBC broadcast the first episode of the 8th and final season “The
Cosby Show” created by Ed. Weinberger today.
1993(4th
of Tishrei, 5754): Since the 3rd of Tishrei fell on Shabbat Tzom
Gedaliah is observed today.
1993(4th
of Tishrei, 5754); Eighty-eight-year-old Blanche Altchek, the Austrian born
daughter of Meyer Roth and Rebecca Spring and the wife of Solomon David Altchek
passed away today after which she was buried at Mount Hebron Cemetery in New
York.
1994:
Abner J. Mikva completed his service as Chief Judge of United States Court of
Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
1995(23rd
of Elul, 5755): Eighty-eight-year-old Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls, the award
winning “Jewish German-born British physicist who played a major role in the
Manhattan Project and Tube Alloys, Britain's nuclear program” who was described
as "a major player in the drama of the eruption of nuclear physics into
world affairs passed away today.
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Peierls.html
https://www.atomicheritage.org/profile/rudolf-peierls
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-sir-rudolf-peierls-1602308.html
1996:
NBC broadcast the first episode of Season Six of “Seinfeld” this evening.
1997:
“In & Out” a comedy produced by Scott Rudin, written by Paul Rudnick with
music by Marc Shaiman was released by Paramount Pictures today.
1997:
“Hacks” a movie about script writing featuring Tom Arnold and Lisa Kudrow was released today in the United
States.
1999: The New York Times featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest including Waging Peace: Israel and the Arabs at the End
of the Centuryby
Itamar Rabinovich, The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional
Classrooms and Tougher Standards by Alfie Kohn and A Joyful Noise: Claiming the Songs of My
Fathersby Deborah Weisgall. In this case the father was “her
father, the modernist opera composer Hugo Weisgall, who was born in Bohemia but
grew up largely in America; like so many European Jews, he lost family during
World War II, but he also served as an American G.I. and bore specific scars
from helping to liberate Terezin.”
2000:
“Protected by hundreds of policemen who all but sealed off a Moscow
neighborhood, President Vladimir V. Putin visited the site of a bombed-out
synagogue tonight to dedicate a $12 million Jewish community center -- a
stone-and-glass demonstration, he said, of a new era of tolerance in Russia.”
(As reported by Michael Wines)
2001(2nd
of Tishrei, 5762): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
2001:
In “Challenging the Vatican On Role in Anti-Semitism” published today Richard
Bernstein provided a detailed review of The Pope Against the Jews: The
Vatican's Role in the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism by David I. Kertze
2002(12th
of Tishrei, 5763): Shoshana (Rosanna) Siso, 63, of Gan Yavneh; Ofer Zinger, 29,
of Moshav Petza'el; Solomon Hoenig, 79, of Tel Aviv; Yossi Mamistavlov, 39 of
Or Yehuda; Yaffa Shemtov, 49, of Tel Aviv and Jonathan (Yoni) Jesner, 19, of
Glasgow, Scotland were murdered and 70 more people were injured when a
Palestinian terrorists set off a bomb aboard a bus on Allenby Street as passed
in front of the Great Synagogue in Tel Aviv.
2002:
Dr. Samuel H. Rosalsky sent an e-mail in which he acknowledged that Judge Otto
Rosalsky, his “grandfather’s cousin” “was a very tough NYC judge who was
embarrassed that so many of those brought before him were “his fellows Jews”
and “threw the book at them” in a successful effort to clean “up the Jewish
community at turn of the century,” establishing “a community sense of ethics
that heretofore had not existed.”
2003:
In a letter of this date, Kenneth Jacobson, Associate National Director
Anti-Defamation League reported the acceptance of Italian Prime Minister Silvio
Berlusconi’s apology for his comment that Benito Mussolini was a benign
dictator and expressed regret for the pain it caused the Jewish community.
2004: The New York Times featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest including The
Fallsby Joyce Carol Oates, My
Old Manby Amy Sohn and an essay
by Philip Roth entitled “The Story behind the Plot against America.”
2004:
The third season of the television series “The Wire” a gritty look at the world
of crime, police and politics in Baltimore created by David Simon, commenced
airing in the United States
2004:
“If at First You Don’t Succeed, Believe Harder,” published today provided a
look a look at the life and work of Rosabeth Moss Kanter.
2005:
Sixty years after the end of World War II, German elections took a strange
twist. In reporting on the elections
held over the weekend, Haaretz quoted
assurances by both of the major candidates that they would maintain positive
relations with Israel and work to fight any outbreak of anti-Semitism in
Europe.
2005:
President Moshe Katsav laid the foundation stone for Estonia's first synagogue
since the Holocaust when the Nazis boasted there was not a single Jew left in
the Baltic nation.
2006:
At a
2007(7th
of Tishrei, 5768): Seventy-three-year-old Susan Jean Thorstadt, the San
Francisco born daughter of Jeanette and Robert Tandler Mack and the wife of
William Lawrence Thorstad passed away today.
2006:
In a sad commentary on the 21st century, Yale University announced
the creation of the first university based center in North America dedicated to
the study of anti-Semitism. Yale cited a
growing number of anti-Semitic episodes around the world as the driving force
behind this. In the announcement Yale
officials did not say whether they considered the admission of an official of
the Talbian as a student at Yale one of these harbingers of a growth in anti-Semitism.
2007:
The Tenth Annual Israeli Music Celebration ends with a piano concerto by Paul
Ben Haim, performed by Gila Goldstein and the Jerusalem Symphony at the
Jerusalem Theater's Henry Crown Hall.
2007:
In New York as part of the Jews & Justice Program, The Center for
Jewish History & American and the Jewish Historical Society present“Jewish Lawyers in the Civil Rights Movement” which
features a prestigious panel that explores the Jewish community's involvement
in this important historical movement in the United States.
2007: A bill protecting travelers from denial of life insurance
simply because they travel to Israel cleared the U.S. House of Representatives
in a 312-110 vote
2007:The secretary of the ministerial committee wrote to
the lawyer representing Neta Shoshani, informing him that 10 days earlier the
committee had extended the ban on publication of some of the documents and
photos pertaining to Deir Yassin for five more years, until 2012.
2007: After serving as acting chancellor for 14 months, George R.
Blumenthal was named the 10th Chancellor of UC Santa Cruz.
2008:
At the Hyman S. & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival Georgetown
University
Professor Jacques Berlinerblau discussesThumpin' It: The Use and Abuse of the Bible in Today's Presidential
Politics
2008:
Today in a “radio interview with Aimee Allison and Philip Maldari on Pacifica
Radio's KPFA 94.1 FM in Berkeley, California, Joseph Stiglitz implied that
President Clinton and his economic advisors would not have backed the North
American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) had they been aware of stealth
provisions, inserted by lobbyists, that they overlooked.”
2008:
“After having performed at a college event with frequent collaborator Travis
Barker, Adam Michael Goldstein was seriously injured when a Learjet in which he
was traveling crashed on takeoff in Columbia, South Carolina. The crash killed
both crew members and two other passengers, and critically injured Goldstein
and Barker
2009 (1 Tishrei, 5770): Rosh Hashanah – 5770 טובהלשׁנה
2009 (1 Tishrei, 5770): Ninety-four-year-old Milton
Meltzer, noted historian and author, passed away today. (As reported by Dennis
Hevesi)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/25/books/25meltzer.html
2009 (1 Tishrei, 5770):Eighty-four year old Stuart Hample, who
brought laughter to people of all ages, passed away today. (As reported by
Bruce Weber)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/24/arts/24hample.html
2009: In “Hollywood
Fights Back Against Anti-Israel Sentiment” Tina Daunt described how members of
the American entertainment community are dealing with the actions and
statements of their counterparts who claim that they are not anti-Semites, just
opposed to Israel.
2010:
A screening of “Jaffa” is scheduled to take place at 14th Annual
Jewish Film Festival of Dallas (TX).
2010:
Israel is ready to enter peace negotiations with Syria "right away,"
Shimon Peres told the United Nations General Assembly. In his address today in
New York to the international body's annual meeting -- the Nation's Millennium
Development Goals summit -- Peres also said he believed that a two-state
solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the only "peaceful
alternative," adding, "and I believe that we shall succeed."
2010(11th
of Tishrei, 5771): Eighty-nine-year-old Irving Dover Ravetch, the Newark, NJ
born son of Sylvia Shapiro, a Hebrew teacher and I. Shalom Ravetch who was a
pharmacist turned rabbi and who joined his wife, the former Harriet
Goldstei, to create scripts for some of
Hollywood’s finest film including “Hud” and “Norma Rae” passed away today. (As
reported by Bruce Weber)
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/21/movies/21ravetch.html
2010:
The Washington Post featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or
of special interest to Jewish readers including “The Balfour Declaration: The
Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict” by Jonathan Schneer
2010: On the day after
Yom Kippur, Ryan Braun of the Milwaukee Brewers “hit a two-run homer,
accounting for all of Milwaukee’s runs in a 9-2 loss. Braun had played on Yom
Kippur when he went 3 for five to help his team defeat the San Francisco
Giants. (As reported by Ron Kaplan)
2010: In a surprising
turn of event, Prime Minister Netanyahu will fly to Washington, DC today. The visit follows a meeting held at Sharm
el-Sheikh with Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas where discussions
were held concerning “core issues” a term that “refers to Israeli concessions,
including the status of Jerusalem and the holy sites within it, as well as
final borders and the Arab demand that descendants of Arab residents who fled
decades ago be allowed into Israel.”
2011(20th of
Elul): Yahrzeit of Dr. Jacob Levin, of
blessed memory, beloved husband of Betty, loving father of Michael (Gigi Cohen)
Levin, Stephen (Dian Garton) Levin, Sharon (Philip) Wein and Lawrence (Sandra
Morrison) Levin and proud Zaide to a whole tribe of grandchildren. To his brother Joe, he was the incomparable
“Yaenkel” and to me his was my wonderful Uncle Jack – living proof that good
guys finish first.
2011: A Middle East
Forum sponsored by The Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington
featuring Elliot Abrams, David Makovsky and Amos Yadlin is scheduled to take
place tonight at the JCC of Northern Virginia.
2011: The Amerigo Trio
– Inbal Segev, cellist; Glen Dicterow, violinist; Karen Dreyfus, violist – is
scheduled to perform at the 2011 New York Chamber Music Festival
2011: Prime Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu - who is scheduled to fly to the US tomorrow evening – said
tonight that he would like to meet with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud
Abbas in New York. "I call on the PA chair to open direct negotiations in
New York, that will continue in Jerusalem and Ramallah," Netanyahu said.
2011:
A 26-year-old man from the West Bank settlement of Eli was arrested on today on
suspicion of being involved in a vandalism and sabotage attack on an IDF base
earlier this month. 2012(3rd of Tishrei, 5773): Fast of Gedaliah
2012(3rd
of Tishrei, 5773): Eighty-nine-year-old attorney and negotiations expert Gerard
I. Nierenberg passed away. (As reported by William Yardley)
2012:
“In the Shadow of Memory: Legacies of Lidice” is scheduled to be shown in
Washington, DC, as part of the film series “Docs in Salute” which focuses “on
interesting personalities who have been touched by Jewish themes.
2012:
Team Israel is scheduled to play South Africa in the opening round of the World
Baseball Classic (WBC)
2012:
The funeral of Haim Hefer who passed away yesterday is scheduled to take place
today.
2012:
The IDF held a surprise large-scale drill on the Golan Heights today, as
turmoil continued to rock Syria across the northern border
2013: The Alexandria
Kleztet is scheduled to perform in Towson, MD
2013(15th of
Tishrei, 5774): Sukkoth
2013: “Palestinians in
the Gaza Strip fired a rocket at southern Israel this morning. The projectile
triggered an air raid siren in the Hof Ashkelon Regional Council area and
landed in an open area near the security fence bordering Gaza.” (As reported by
Yaakov Lappin)
2014: “The results of a
competition for a memorial” for the victims of the attack on the Israeli team
at the 1972 Munich Games are scheduled to be announced today. (As reported by
Times of Israel)
2014: The Coe College
Music is scheduled to host the Homecoming Showcase Concert under the direction
of Musical Maven William S. Carson
2014: The Israel Ballet
is scheduled to perform at the Phasa Morgana Festival.
2014: The Vengerov
Festival, featuring violinist Maxim Vengerov is scheduled to open at the
Charles Bronfman Auditorium.
2014: Speaking at the
United Nations, Iran’s deputy Foreign Minister said that “that destroying the
Islamic State will require Israel leaving Palestine,” a strange comment coming
from the representative from a nation that has called for the destruction of
Israel.
2014(24th of
Elul, 5774): Seventy-nine-year-old director, screenwriter and author Avraham
Heffner who won the Ophir Award passed away today.
2014: “A Jewish Museum
in Vienna returned a painting, ‘The Coffee Hour’ that was seized by the Nazis
in 1938 to the artist's grandnieces today, part of a wider move in Austria to
deal with art illegally acquired after Germany annexed the country in 1938.”
2014: Comedian and
social commentator Lewis Black is scheduled to appear in Albuquerque, NM.
2014: In Omaha,
Nebraska, graveside services are scheduled to be held at Beth El Cemetery for
Dr. Guinter Kahn who escaped Nazi Germany to become a leading dermatologist and
who is survived by “by the love of his life, Judy Felsenstein; son and
daughter-in-law Bruce and Deborah Kahn, grandchildren Nathan and Emma Kahn;
daughter Michelle Kahn, and brother and sister-in-law Marcel and Ilse Kahn.”
2015(6th of
Tishrei, 5776): Shabbat Shuvah
2015: “Multitude,
Solitude: The Photographs of Dave Heath” opened today at the Philadelphia
Museum of Art.
2015(6th
of Tishrei, 5776): Seventy-nine-year-old Mishael Cheshin, a former Justice on
the Israeli Supreme Court lost his battle with cancer today. (As reported by
Yaron Druckman, Telem Yahav, and Raanan Ben-Zur)
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4701952,00.html
2015: In Phoenix, Lewis
Black is scheduled to perform at the Comerica Theatre.
2015: The final
performance of “A Happy End” a “new play by Iddo Netanyahu” is scheduled to be
presented by the City College of New York’s Division of Humanities and the Arts
today.
2016: In “How Pop
Culture Wore Out Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’” published today Nick Murray
described how the song had become so ubiquitous “that the songwriter once asked
for a break from his own track.”
2016: In “GOP pushes
U.S. citizens in Israel to vote for Trump” published today William Booth and
Ruth Eglash described efforts to Americans living in Israel including Rabbi
Chaim Spring “who hadn’t voted in a U.S. election in 25 years” to vote for the
GOP candidate.
2016: In “They risked
their lives to rescue scores of people from the Nazis. Few knew their story
until now” published today Nick Anderson reviewed the documentary “Defying the
Nazis: The Sharp’s War” which tells the tale of two Unitarians, Reverend Waitsill
Sharp and his wife Martha who risked everything to save a least 125 people,
most Jews, from the clutches of the Holocaust.
2016: Today, officials
of the city of Jerusalem announced their “intention to prosecute minimarkets
that continued doing business on Saturdays in the city center.”
2016: The 16th
Annual National Conference of the Jewish National Fund is scheduled to come to
an end in NYC.
2016: “Two police
officers were wounded in a stabbing attack outside Herod’s Gate in Jerusalem’s
Old City this morning … as a fresh wave
of attacks in Jerusalem and the West Bank persisted for a fourth straight day.”
2016: The New Yorker
published “How Can I Help?” by Rivka Galchen.
2016: Traffic “jams were
reported on highways all over the country this morning as railway workers
installed tracks for the new express train between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, as
well as doubled the lines between Herzliya and Tel Aviv.”
2017: The program for
the 21st UK International Film Festival which begins on November 9
is scheduled to go on line today.
2017: “Foxtrot,” Samuel
Maoz’s internationally acclaimed film about parents mourning the loss of their
son killed during army duty, will be “one of the films competing for honors at
the Ophir Awards scheduled for today.
2017: JW3 is scheduled
to host a screening of “The Green Park,” a documentary about the seaside hotel
with the kosher kitchen that “was a key hub of Anglo-Jewish life for over forty
years” starting in 1943.
2018(10th of
Tishrei): On the Jewish calendar, 45th anniversary of the Yom Kippur
War, a sneak attack started on the Fast Day which happened to coincide with
Shabbat, which was another failed attempt to destroy Israel.
2018: “Israeli
Equestrian Rider Dan Kramer” will not be taking part in the 2018 FEI World
Equestrian Games for Combined Driving which are scheduled to begin today
because it is Yom Kippur.
2018(10th of
Tishrei, 5779): Yom Kippur
2019: In Chicago,The
Women’s Leadership Committee of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education
Center is scheduled to host its “10th anniversary soiree” fund
raising event at Morgan Manufacturing.
2019: The United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled to host it “What You Do Matters 2019
Philadelphia Dinner.”
2019: As of today, Prime
Minister Netanyahu is not scheduled to attend the upcoming meeting at the
United Nations – a world stage on which he has enjoyed strutting in the
past—because of the uncertain outcome of Tuesday’s snap election.
2019: The Jewish Museum
of London is scheduled to host a preview screening of “The Rimmers: Personal
Shopping.”
2019: The Jewish
Community Library in San Francisco is scheduled to present “The Unbroken Past”
during which “Professor Kevin Ostoyich of Valparaiso U. talks about a German
family’s unique Holocaust-era journey to Shanghai, based on his interviews with
Rudy Nothenberg, former S.F. public official.”
2019: In Atlanta, the
month-long Docent Training program is scheduled to come to an end today.
2019: The Center for
Jewish History and the Leo Baeck Institute are scheduled to present “Paint,
Pray, Love,” an examination of the life and works of Lene Schnieder-Kainer.
2020: Since
Temple-Tifereth Israel’s congregants cannot come to the Beachwood temple or the
High Holy Day’s sanctuary in Cleveland’s University Circle to hear the choir,”
Cantor Kathryn Wolfe Sebo has found a way to bring the choir to them.
2020:
jHUB is schedule to hold Rosh Hashanah programing this afternoon a the
Headlands State Park in Mentor
2020:
Jewish Family Experience is scheduled to hold in-person Rosh Hashanah services
outside “in a tent with social distance protocols in place.
2020:
As Israelis observe Rosh Hashanah, they are coping with the latest report that “there are 46,370 people infected by the
virus, 1190 of them hospitalized for treatment, with 577 described as seriously
ill.”
2020(1st
of Tishrei, 5781): Rosh Hashanah.
2021:
The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including Presumed Guilty: How the
Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights by Erwin
Chemerinsky and The Gambler Wife A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman
Who Saved Dostoyevsky by Andrew D. Kaufman.
2021:
Osher Marin JCC is scheduled to present an outdoor event for families with
kids, with lessons about plants associated with Sukkot and what they represent.
2021:
In San Francisco, the Contemporary Jewish Museum is scheduled to celebrate its
new exhibit, “Experience Leonard Cohen,” “with music, poetry and spoken word.”
2021:
Congregation Beth Shalom of the Blue Hills is scheduled to present a “Sukkot
Decorating Party and Sing-Along.”
2021:
The Museum at Eldridge Street is scheduled to host a “Lower East Walking Tour.”
2021:
The Illinois Holocaust Museum is scheduled to host a “sneak preview” of “The
Auschwitz Report, Slovakia’s 2020 Oscar submission for Best International Film,
which shares the true story of two Auschwitz prisoners who escaped and provided
a rare firsthand report of genocide at the camp.
2021:
The Jewish Heritage Alliance and the American Sephardi Federation are scheduled
to host “In the Footsteps of the Crypto Jews: A story of Agony, Survival and
Redemption.”
2021:
The Addison-Penzak JCC is scheduled to host the “opening reception for
‘Szancer, Imagine That!’, an “exhibit featuring works of Polish Jewish
illustrator Jan Marcin Szancer.”
2021:
Due to the resurgence of COVID-19, “it is with deep regret that” the Breman
Museum is postponing its 25th Anniversary Celebration which had been
scheduled for day.
2022: As the holiday
season approaches, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Temple Judah is scheduled to hold
“High Holy Day Choir Rehearsal” this evening.
2022: Israeli singer and
songwriter, Noga Erez is scheduled to perform at the Music Hall of Williamsburg
in Brooklyn.
2022: The Museum at
Eldridge Street is scheduled to present online “Art History through a Jewish
Lens: From Bezalel to Agam” during which attendees discover “3,300 years of
Jewish art, from the interior of the Tabernacle in the desert to the Agam room
in the Pompidou Museum in Paris.”
2022: PBS is scheduled
to air the second in Ken Burn’s new three-part documentary, “The U.S. and the
Holocaust.”
2023:
The Streicker Center is scheduled to host “a conversation” with Adam Gopnik and
Simon Schama who latest work is Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the
Health of Nations.
2023:
In San Francisco, the JCCSF is scheduled to host San Francisco Opera’s
dramaturg emeritus Kip Cranna discussing how stories from the Hebrew Bible,
like Cain and Abel, Noah and the flood, Esther, and Samson and Delilah, have
inspired operas
2023:
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine,
“who was born to Jewish parents” and who lost family members during the
Holocaust, is scheduled to visit Washington, DC today.
2023:
In Palo Alto, CA, the Oshman Family JCC is scheduled to host “Return: A Pre-Yom
Kippur Circle with Saul Kaye.”
2024:
The Vilna Shul, Boston’s Center for Jewish Culture is scheduled to present the reator
of the “Israel Story” podcast Yochai Maital who will talk about what it is
like to be an Israeli after the deadliest day for the Jewish people since the
Holocaust and during an ongoing war on multiple front.
2024:
JWA Book Talks is scheduled to host a presentation by Maya Arad the author The
Hebrew Teacher
2024:
The MirYam Institute is scheduled to host a “5 Round Discourse On: War,
Jew-Hatred, The IDF, Diplomacy, Jews United?”
2024:
“Hadassah Magazine Executive Editor Lisa Hostein is scheduled to moderate a
discussion with Rabbi Dov Linzer and journalist Abigail Pogrebin,
co-authors of the soon-to-be released It Takes Two to Torah: An
Orthodox Rabbi and Reform Journalist Discuss and Debate Their Way Through the
Five Books of Moses,”
2024:
The Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum is scheduled to host a First-Day-of-Issue
Ceremony in which the Museum's leadership, Michael Gordon, Government Liaison
Director for the United States Postal Service (USPS), and artist Antonio
Alcalá, will lead the first-day-of-issue ceremony for the 2024 Hanukkah stamp.
2024:
As September 19th begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism that
has included Hamas supporters calling for Zionist passengers on a New York
subway to raise their hands, sweeps the United States and the Hamas held
hostages begin day 349 in captivity.
(Editor’s note: this situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so we
are just providing a snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time)