September 25
275: Marcus Claudius Tacitus appointed Roman emperor by the
senate. By now the Roman Empire was in decline and Emperor’s served at the
pleasure of the Army. In the case of
Tacitus, that meant a mere six months.
One of the Emperor’s greatest claims to fame was his relationship to the
Tacitus, the famous first century Roman historian. When it came to writing about the Jews,
Tacitus (the historian) was not bothered by the facts. He helped to propagate the claim that the
ancient Israelites were a group of plague-infested Egyptians who were driven
into the desert to die. In his
Histories, he sounded themes that would be the staple of anti-Semites for
the next two thousand years. Jewish
customs were vile and disgusting. The
vileness of their customs were actually the source of their strength. Jews were compassionate and honest when
dealing within their own community but have nothing but contempt for the rest
of mankind. He did not see them as a
political threat but saw them as a corrupting influence that would undermine
the moral fiber of the empire. For this reason,
he advocated that they become as far from the imperial capital as possible.
1143: Celestine II, who was opposed by Petrus Leonis, the head of
a “leading Roman family” that “had converted from Judaism to Christianity” was
elected Pope today.
1253: Innocent IV re-confirms “Sicut Judaeis Non” a Papal Bull
first issued by Calixtus II in 1120 “designed to provide protection for Jews
from assaults by Crusaders” as they crossed Europe on their way to the Holy
Land. (I cannot determine if the bull applied to the Jews in Jerusalem who
slaughtered by the Christian Noble Knights)
1321(2nd of Tishrei, 5082): “French Talmudist” Eliezer
ben Joseph of Chinon, the student and brother-in-law of Perez ben Elijah of
Corbell “was martyred today.”
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/5616-eliezer-ben-joseph-of-chinon
1354: The Jewish communities of Catalonia and Valencia adopted statutes today that made “extermination of informers a public duty” in which “everyone was required to participate to the fullest measure. A similar statute was adopted by the Jews of Majorca. The informer of “moser” was constituted to be the lowest form of life among Jews, which, according to the Jewish Encyclopedia, the Talmud equated the serpent.
1396:
Ottoman Emperor Bayezid I defeats a Christian army at the Battle of Nicopolis.
The Battle of Nicopolis is referred to as the Last Crusade. The clash was between the Moslem Ottomans and
a alliance of Hungarian and French knights.
This French connection is ironic considering other events taking place
at that time. In 1394, two years before this climatic fight, “Sultan Yildirim
Bayezid invited the French Jews who were molested by King Charles VI, to the
Ottoman Empire. They were settled in Edirne and the Balkans. The French Kings
had the habit of inviting the Jews to establish commerce and borrowing money
from them. However often, when payment was due, they expelled them; only to
re-invite them when they needed further financing.”
1506:
Charles V began his reign as Lord of the Netherlands. In 1522, Charles issued a
proclamation against Christians who were suspected of being lax in the faith
and against Jews who had not been baptized in Gelderland and Utrecht; and he
repeated these edicts in 1545 and 1549.
1534:
Pope Clement
1639(26th
of Elul, 5399): Raizel Segal Kahana, the daughter of Yom Tov Lippman Helller
and Rachell Heller and the wife of Yaakov Yosef Heller Kahana passed away
today.
1669(10th
of Tishrei, 5430) Yom Kippur (According to Rosetta Calendar)
1669:
Events began today that would result in another blood libel in Germany. In the village of Glatigny, near Metz,
Whilhelmina, the wife of Giles Lemoine, lost track of her three year old son
Didier while she was doing laundry at the fountain in the village square. A
search by the villagers proved fruitless. Then Daniel Payer told the searchers
he had seen “a Hebrew with a heavy bear mounted on a white horse hurrying
toward Metz and carrying in his arms a child about three years old.” The
searchers then headed to Metz where they were told by a man who lived near the
city gate that he had seen a Hebrew enter the city but he did not have a child.
It was finally deduced that the man in question was Raphael Levi, a Jew living
in Boulai, a village near Metz. A
warrant was then sworn out for his arrest. [see tomorrow’s blog for the next
installment of this unfolding tragedy]
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9801E5DA143BEF34BC4C52DFB066838F669FDE
1675:
After having realized the financial benefit he could gain from his new Jewish
subjects Louis XIV decided not to ban the Jews from Alsace and Lorraine and
“granted the Jews letters patent” which placed them “under his special
protection” but did not protect them from the abuse they had suffered under the
Austrians.
1694:
Birthdate Henry Pelham who while serving as Prime Minister of the United
Kingdom would oversee the passage of the Jew Act of 1753, which allowed Jews to
become naturalized by application to Parliament.
1739(22nd
of Elul, 5499): Marcus Mordechai Mozes Drukker passed away in Amsterdam.
1740:
Nathan Levy who had applied for a plot of ground to be used as a place of
burial for his family in 1738 obtained this grant today, and the plot was
thenceforth known as the "Jews' burying-ground"; it was the first
Jewish cemetery in the city, and was situated in Spruce street near Ninth
street; it has been the property of the Congregation Mickvé Israel for more
than a century. Levy, who was born in
1704 and died in 1753, was one of the first Jews to live in Philadelphia.
1752(17th
of Tishrei 5513): Chaham Mehir A. Cohen Bellnfante passed away today.
1762(8th
of Tishrei, 5523): Shabbat Shuvah
1765(10th
of Tishrei, 5526): Yom Kippur
1767(2nd
of Tishrei, 5528): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1773(8th
of Tishrei, 5534): Parashat Ha’Azinu; Shabbat Shuva
1774(20th
of Tishrei, 5535): Sixth Day of Sukkoth
1774(
20th of Tishrei, 5535): Raphael ben Isser Landauer, the Bavarian
born son of Brenie and Abraham Isser Landauer and the husband of Lea Landauer
passed away today in Swabia.
1775(1st
of Tishrei, 5536): Rosh Hashanah observed for the first time after the start of
the American Revolution
1776(12th
of Tishrei, 5537): Avraham HaMalach, the son of Dov Ber, the Maggid of
Mezeritch and Chava, daughter of the Rabbi Meshulam Faybush Horowitz of
Kremenets and husband of Tveria Kalisk, with whom he had two sons -- Israel Chaim of Ludmir and Sholom
Shachne of Prohobisht—who was known for his ascetism and was the author of
Ḥesed le-Abraham passed away today.
1779(15th
of Tishrei, 5540): Sukkoth
1779:
Birthdate of John Oxlee the English cleric and author whose knowledge of
Semitic languages including Hebrew led to his study of Jewish law and the
Talmud and who “in his Six Letters to the Archbishop of Canterbury, stated his
reasons for declining to take any part in the society for the conversion of the
Jews.”
1784(10th
of Tishrei, 5545): Yom Kippur observed on the same day that Elizabeth Schuyler
and “founding father” Alexander Hamilton, whom is reported to have been born
Jewish although he never practice Judaism gave birth to Angelica Hamilton.
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691211152/the-jewish-world-of-alexander-hamilton
1786(3rd
of Tishrei, 5547): Tzom Gedaliah observed ten days after the close of the
Annapolis Convention which was a forerunner of the convention in Philadelphia
that created the U.S. Constitution.
1789: The establishment of religion on a national level was
expressly prohibited in the U.S. with the adoption of the First Amendment, the
opening words of which read: 'Congress shall make no law respecting an
establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.' This line from the Bill of Rights gave de
jure recognition to a concept that has made the American experience different
for the Jews than anything else that they had encountered during their
centuries of living in the Diaspora. There
would be examples of discrimination against Jews in the United States such as
covenanted real estate, college quotas, and oaths invoking the Christian
deity. But these proved to be minor
compared to what had happened elsewhere
in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East where Jews were second class
citizens because there was always a state religion be it Islam or Christian.
Final ratification of the First Amendment would come in 1791.
1790(17th of Tishrei, 5551): Shabbat Chol Ha Moed
Sukkoth observed on the first anniversary of the U.S. Congress adopting the
amendments to the U.S. Constitution known commonly as The Bill of Rights.
1792(9th of Tishrei, 5553): Erev Yom Kippur is observed
o the same day that former American Patriot Thomas Paine wrote to the National
Assembly expressing his gratitude for having been made “a citizen of France”
during the French Revolution.
1794(1st of Tishrei, 5555): As they observe Rosh Hashanah, French
Jews can join their countrymen in a sense of a safety following the execution
of Maximilien Robespierre and the end of the Reign of Terror
1798(15th of Tishrei, 5559): As Jews begin the observance of
Sukkoth, the festival of thanksgiving, English Jews are thankful; for the
victory that Lord Nelson has given them at the Battle of the Nile, while French
Jews are thankful for Napoleon’s victories in Egypt
1801(18th of Tishrei, 5562): Fourth Day of Sukkot
1802(28th of Elul, 5562): Parashat Nitzavim; last
Shabbat of 5562
1803(9th of Tishrei, 5564): Kol Nidre
1804(20th of Tishrei, 5565): Sixth of Sukkot
1805(2nd of Tishrei, 5566): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1805: In Philadelphia, PA, Abigail Seixas and Benjamin Jonas
Phillips gave birth to Jonas Benjamin Phillips
1808(4th of Tishrei, 5560): Tzom Gedaliah observed for
the last time during the Presidency of Thomas Jefferson.
1812: Birthdate of Karl Biedermann, the liberal German politician
who was an advocate for Jewish emancipation.
1813(1st of Tishrei, 5574): Rosh Hashanah observed for
a second time during the War of 1812, also knowns as “the second American War
for Independence.
1815: Ezriel ben Isaac married Reizecha bat Abraham at the Western
Synagogue today.
1816(3rd of Tishrei, 5577): Tzom Gedaliah
1817(15th of Tishrei, 5578): Sukkoth
1820(17th of Tishrei, 5581): Sukkoth Chol Had Moed
1820(17th of Tishrei, 5581):Bezalel ben Joel Ronsburg who served as a rabbi, dayan and
rosh yeshiva in Prague who counted Zacharias Frankel as one of his pupils
passed away today.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/12822-ronsburg-bezalel-b-joel
1821: In Charleston, SC, Elias Abrahams, the United Kingdom born
son of Judith and Emanuel Abrahams gave birth to Cecilia Abrahams who became
Cecilia Marks when she married Joseph Hart Marks
1822(10th of Tishrei, 5583): Yom Kippur
1822(10th of Tishrei, 5583): Revolutionary War veteran
Moses Judah, “a merchant who became a freeman of New York City in 1768” and the
son of Baruch Judah passed away today in New York City.
1822: In Germany, Jacob Israel Greenbaum and Sarah Greenbaum gave
birth to future Chicago resident Elias E. Greenbaum the husband of Rosine
Greenbaum.
1823(20th of Tishrei, 5584): Sixth Day of Sukkoth
1824(3rd of Tishrei, 5585): Parashat Ha’Azinu; Shabbat
Shuva observed for the last time during the Presidency of James Monroe.
1832(1st of Tishrei, 5593): As English Jews observe
Rosh Hashanah most of them are pleased with the recent passage of the Reform
Act which created a Parliament more reflective of the changes in British
society but saddened because it did not deal with the issue of Jewish
Disabilities.
1832:Jews living in Sydney, Australia gathered at Mr.
Rowell's shop on George Street which had been fitted out as synagogue to hold
Rosh Hashanah services.
1835(2nd of Tishrei, 5596): Rosh Hashanah II
1836(14th of Tishrei, 5597): Erev Sukkoth celebrated
for the last time during the Presidency of Andrew Jackson
1841(10th of Tishrei, 5602): Yom Kippur
1843(1st of Tishrei, 5604): Rosh Hashanah
1843: Birthdate of Herman W. Hellman, the Bavarian native who came
to Los Angeles at the age of 15 and pursued a business career with his brother
Isaiah while raising a family with the former Ida Heimann of Trevino, Italy and
becoming a leading member of the Jewish community.
1845: In New York City, Edward Woolf and Sarah Michels gave birth
to “electrician and inventor” Albert Edward Wollf, the graduate of CCNY and
husband of Rosamund Wimpfheimer who “sterilized New York’s drinking water
during the typhoid epidemic of 1893 and helped to eradicate yellow fever.”
1846: Birthdate of English archeologist Archibald Henry Sayce, the
native of Southampton author of The Races of the Old Testament who established
“that the Hittites, far from being a small Canaanite tribe who dealt with the
kings of the northern Kingdom of Israel, were the people of a "lost
Hittite empire," which Egyptian texts were then bringing to light.” (The
Jewish Encyclopedia shows the year as 1846)
http://www.giffordlectures.org/lecturers/archibald-henry-sayce
https://archive.org/details/hittitesstoryoff00saycuoft
1847(15th of Tishrei, 5608): Sukkoth
1847: In Hopkinsville, KY, Rebecca and Solomon Lesem gave birth
Quincy, Il dry goods merchant Issac H. Lesem the husband on Harriet Bernheimer
who moved to St. Louis where he organized the Eagle Discount Stamp Company
while serving as vice president of Temple Israel and belong to B’nai B’rith and
Y.M.H.A.
1849(9th of Tishrei, 5610): Erev Yom Kippur
1850(19th of Tishrei, 5611): Fifth Day of Sukkoth
1850(19th of Tishrei, 5611): Francis Edward Salamon the
five year old son of Edward Salamon and Henrietta Levien and the brother of New
South Wales native Montague Levien Salamon passed away today.
1854(3rd of Tishrei, 5615): Tzom Gedaliah observed for
the first time during the Crimean War
1857: In New or,, Isabella Solomon and William Brunner gave birth
to architect Arnold W. Bunner
1857: In New York City, Isabella Solomon and William Brunner gave
birth to MIT trained architect Arnold William Brunner who in 1897 designed a synagogue
for “Congregation Shearith Israel, on
Central Park West, New York, to house the United States' oldest Jewish
congregation, founded in 1654” and in 1907 a synagogue for Temple Israel on
Lenox Avenue at 120th Street.
1857: In Petersburg, VA, Fannie and Seligman Hutzler gave birth to
Henry S. Hutzler, the President of the Hebrew Home for the Aged in Richmond and
an officer of B’nai B’rith.
1858: Benjamin Moses Verveer, the Dutch born Son of Mozes Abraham
Verveer and Saartje Isaac van der Velden and his wife Clara de Bok suffered the
pain of still born child today.
1859: In London, Caroline Lazarus and Mark George Simmons gave
birth to Catherine Simmons.
1860(9th of Tishrei, 5621): Erev Yom Kippur
1860: Representatives of the Hebrew Benevolent were among those
attending the meeting of the National Emigrant Benevolent Association which was
held this afternoon at the rooms of the German Society.
1861(21st of Tishrei, 5622): Hoshana Rabah
1861: Henry Heller, surgeon with the 27th Regiment
which was originally called the “Washington Brigade” competed his term of
service today.
1861: Philadelphian Jacob Herman who would be wounded at Cedar
Creek in 1864 and rise to the rank of Sergeant began four years of service with
Company C of the 98th Regiment.
1861:At their meeting this evening, the Board of Alderman
in New York adopted the report of the Finance Committee which included a
recommendation that $30,000 should be given to the Hebrew Benevolent Society
for the erection of a hospital.
1862(1st of Tishrei, 5623): Rosh Hashanah
1862: As the Jews of Louisville, KY, including members of the
Brandeis and Dembitz families, observed the Jewish New Year, Union forces led
by General Don Carlos Buell began moving into the city. They were part of an
army that was moving to stop the advance of Confederate forces under Braxton
Bragg. Ultimately Bragg’s “invasion” of Kentucky and Ohio would fail driving
another nail in the Confederate’s coffin.
1863: Birthdate of Dr. Moses Hyamson, Senior Dayan or Chief Judge
of the Ecclesiastical Court of the United Synagogue of London who would become
the rival candidate for the office of Chief Rabbi of Great Britain to which
Rabbi Joseph H. Hertz would be chosen.
After losing out to Hertz, Hyamson would be named Rabbi of Congregation
Orach Chaim in New York, the position that Hertz vacated when he became Chief
Rabbi of Great Britain.
1864:“The Jewish Synagogue erected for the congregation,
Aderath Eb, was dedicated” this afternoon. “The edifice is situated in
Twenty-ninth-street, between Lexington and Third-avenues, built of brick, and
capable of accommodating about fire hundred people. The interior fittings are
neat and handsome, without being gaudy. The services …were the customary
dedication exercises, according to the Hebrew ritual. The sacred scrolls of the
law were carried in procession three times around the Synagogue, and the perpetual
lamp lighted in front of the arch while the Chazan and the choir chanted the
Psalms of David.” Rabbi Morris Raphall and Rabbi Samuel M. Isaacs addressed the
congregation. Captain Burdick “and a squad of the Twenty-first Precinct
Police, rendered efficient aid in preserving order at the door and keeping out
unbidden guests.”
1864:According to “The Last Copperhead Plot and How it
Miscarried” published today one of the plotters was a Jew named Rosenthal who
had settled as a clothing dealer in Sandusky, Ohio about two years ago. He
claimed to have been driven out of Richmond for Union sentiments but he is
known to be an outspoken Copperhead.
1865(5th of Tishrei, 5626): Seventy year old Hayman Levy, the son
of Solomon and Rebecca Eve Levy and the husband of Almeria Levy passed away
today.
1866(16th of Tishrei, 5627): Second Day of Sukkoth
1868(9th of Tishrei, 5629): Erev Yom Kippur; Kol Nidre
chanted for the last timed during the Presidency of Andrew Johnson
1869(20th of Tishrei, 5630): Chol Hamoed Sukkoth
observed for the first time during the Presidency of U.S. Grant who attended
services at Adas Israel in Washington, D.C.
1869(20th of Tishrei, 5630: Seventy-one year old
German-Jewish poet Moses M. Haarbleicher passed away today.
1869: In Morocco, Hyam Solomon Levy-Yuly, the London born son of
Mr. and Mrs. Judah Levy-Yuly and his wife Hanna Levy-Yuly gave birth to
Florence and Alice Levy-Yuly.
1871(10th of Tishrei, 5632): Yom Kippur
1871: An advertisement in todays Seattle Intelligencer boasted
that Schwabacher Brothers the store by Louise, Abe and Sig Schwabacher "sold
everything from a needle to an anchor.”
1871: It was reported today that a bill has been introduced in the
French Parliament to take away the rights of citizenship granted to the Jews
born in Algeria. The proposal was made
in response to Moslem uprising in Algeria. A Jewish delegation that included
the Chief Rabbi, Albert Cohn and Joseph Cohen testified before the committee
that is reviewing the proposal.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=980DE3DA123CE63ABC4D51DFBF66838A669FDE
1872:
Birthdate Hungary native and JTS trained rabbi and “biblical scholar” Joseph
Herman Hertz, who served as Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom and the British
Commonwealth of Nations from 1913 until 1946. (This blog cannot do justice to
this distinguished leader)
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/rabbi-joseph-hertz
1874: As the dispute over the management of the Hebrew Orphan
Asylum escalated, Raphael Lewin, the editor of New Era wrote to the New
York Times challenging the recently published resolution adopted by the
Directors of that institution. The directors claimed that Lewin’s claims of
mismanagement which were to appear in his magazine were false and brought with
malicious intent. Lewin responded that
he stood ready to prove his charges “and the purity of” his “motives” in
publishing them.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9405E0D6143BEF34BC4E51DFBF66838F669FDE
1874(14th of Tishrei, 5635): Erev Sukkoth and Erev Shabbat are
celebrated on the same evening.
1874: Rabbi Isaacs led Sukkoth eve festivals at the 44th
Street Synagogue in New York City.
1874: At Temple Emanuel the prominent Reform congregation on 5th
Avenue, a larger than usual crowd attended services which were augmented by the
singing of a Choir.
1875(25th of Elul, 5635): Leil Selichot
1875: In Austria, Pinkas Mandelberg and his wife gave birth to
Joseph Mandelberg, the Cantor at Congregation Ansche Chesed in New York City.
1876: In Toukan, Courland, Rose and Harry Berner gave birth to
Spanish-American War veteran Isaac Bener who in 1897 came to the United States
where peddled matches and writing paper in Brooklyn, went broke running a
bakery in Savannah and finally found success in Tampa FL as the founder of the
Tampa Bag Company and owner of the Royal Palm Soap Company while marrying
Bessie Abrams serving as a trustee of Congregation Rodeph Sholom.
1876: Aaron Lazarus was “appointed Aide-de-Camp (with the rank of
Camptain to the staff of Brigadier General R.M.Brinton.
1877: On his 30th birthday, in Quincy, IL, dry goods
merchant Isaac H. Lesem, the Hopkinsville, KY born son of Rebecca and Solomon
Lesem who went to a successful mercantile career in St. Louis, married Harriet
Bernheimer.
1879: Birthdate of Odessa native Joseph Malkin, the “first
cellist” with the Berlin Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony and the New York
Philharmonic who “founded the Malkin Conservatory in 1933.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/09/03/88860973.pdf
1879: In Lithuania, Joseph and Celia L. (Sharkansky) Augustus gave
birth to Morris Augustus, the husband of Rose Epstein whom he married in 1917
and director of the Orthodox Jewish Home for the Aged in Chicago who was also a
“delegate to numerous Zionist and B’nai B’rith conventions.”
1879: A fire destroyed the business on Main Street in Deadwood, SD
including “the wooden huts and muddy streets where the first Jewish inhabitants
conducted their business.” The Jewish population had grown to over a hundred
during the gold rush that enveloped the area. Reportedly “about one-third of
all the early buildings on Main Street were owned or occupied by Jewish
merchants. These were mostly traditional Jewish enterprises such as dry goods
or those related to clothing.” The fire was probably not a case of anti-Semitic
arson. Although no report exists as to the origin of the fire, such outbreaks
were a common occurrence in the United States (see Chicago Fire, San Francisco
Fire) at a time when there were no building codes and most buildings were wooden.
1881(2nd of Tishrei, 5642): 2nd day of Rosh
Hashanah
1881: Samuel Greenbaum presided over tonight’s memorials service
hosted by the Young Men’s Hebrew Association in honor of the late President
Garfield.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9906E7D8103CEE3ABC4E51DFBF66838A699FDE
more for 2014
1881: “Where Paradise Might Have Been”
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9F06E6D8153BE033A25756C2A96F9C94609FD7CF
1881: “Echoes From Beyond the Sea” published today described
events in Europe and Asia Minor including renewed application by English and
German Jews made to the Turkish government for the purchase of land in
Syria. Jews would then “emigrate from
European countries where life is intolerable” helped along by the construction
of roads and railways financed by wealthy Jews living on the Continent and
England.
1884: In Baltimore, MD, Leo and Annie Steiner Deutsch gave birth
to the 1904 NYU Law School graduate Bernard Deutsch, “the President of the
Board of Alderman” in New York, “a leader in the American Jewish Community
and the husband of “the former Francis
Weinstein with whom he had two daughters – Elinor and Dorothy
https://archives.yale.edu/agents/people/56611
http://judaism_enc.enacademic.com/5064
1884: In Philadelphia, David Longsdorf objected to the newspaper
reports that treated the marriage of his friend Henry Friedman to Sarah Schuer
in the same way as they did the elopement of Victoria Morsini. Friedman, whose
father had helped form the Cameron Dragoons which fought with distinction
during the Civil War and his bride had known each other for quite some time.
The two Reform Jews did elope but were married under a Chupah by Dr. Silberman,
an Orthodox rabbi in the presence of a minyan
1885: Congregation B’Nai Jehsurun brought suit today in District
Court against the estate of the late Joseph Levy for the amount of $100 - $75
for the religious services including the cost of “watchers” and $25.00 for the
grave. Marcus Cohen, president of the congregation, testified that normally the
charge is $300 but due to the circumstances of the death, the charges were
reduced.
1886: Vanity Fair published a “picture” of Sir John Simon, the
Jamaican born Jewish Member of Parliament who spent the last twenty years of
his life working to ameliorate the conditions of the Jews of Russia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sir_John_Simon_Vanity_Fair_25_September_1886.jpg
1886: “Jew And Catholic” published today reported that the
marriage of David Bretzfelder, a 28 year
old Jewish letter carrier and Kittie Cannon, a young Roman Catholic has caused
a great deal of discussion today in New Haven, Connecticut since it is “the
first of its kind that ever took place in this city.”
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=940CEEDC1E30E533A25756C2A96F9C94679FD7CF
1886: According to a summary of the annual report of the Hebrew
Sheltering Guardian Society of New York published today, “four hundred and
fifteen children are now cared for by the society, and its finances are in good
condition, although further donations are need to meet the increasing demands
of the institution.”
1887: Birthdate of Apolda, Germany native Amanda Wachtel who after
being interned at Drancy was shipped to Auschwitz where she died.
1887: Birthdate of “Chyzew, Poland,” native Mordecai Burstein who
served as an Orthodox rabbi in New Bedford, MA, Kansas City and Chicago as well
as executive director the Hebrew Theological College in Chicago.
1888: Birthdate of Leon Rene Yankwich, the native of Romania and
graduate of Loyola Law School in Los Angeles who served on the federal bench
for almost four decades.
https://www.fjc.gov/node/1390201
1888: Birthdate of Bucharest born, NYU trained dentist J. William
Maller, the orthodontist who wrote “Child Psychology As Applied to
Orthodontia.”
https://www.ajodo.org/article/S0099-6963(29)90610-4/pdf
1889(29th of Elul, 5649): Erev Rosh Hashana
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9C07E3DD1130E633A25756C2A96F9C94689FD7CF
1889: In its appeal for funds published today, the Hebrew
Sheltering Guardian Society of New York reported that since opening is doors it
has cared for 1,428 children, 560 of whom are currently receiving services.
1889: The Jews of San Diego, California, gathered at Second and
Beech Street to greet the Jewish New Year of 5650 and pray in their own house
of worship.
1889: Birthdate of Julius Borentstein “a native of Rachov in Russian Poland, who fled Tsarist military service and came to the
United States where went from working in the garment industry to becoming a
builder in the Bronx and worked to ensure “the survival of Jewish cultural life
by helping to bring the YIVO Institute to New York from Vilna at the outbreak
of WW II while raising two daughters – Esther and Sonya – with “his wife, the
former Sarah Saltzman.”
https://www.nytimes.com/1975/12/30/archives/julius-borenstein-yivo-institute-head.html
1890: In Prague, Herman and Julie Kafka gave birth to Valerie
"Valli" Kafka Pollak, the second oldest sister of author Franz Kafka and “one of the first woman teachers in the
Prague Jewish School which was founded in 1920” who was the wife of “commercial
employee Josef Pollak with whom she had two daughters, Lotte and Marrianne, the
ife George Steiner with whom she emigrated to England in 1939 which meant that
she was the only survivor of her famous Uncle since her mother and her aunts
all were murdered during the Holocaust
1890: It was reported today that “during the last fifteen years”
Broadway has become “the principal highway of Jewish mercantile enterprise in
America” as can be seen by the fact that business signs have given way to
primarily “Hebrew names” and that in New York, Jewish merchants dominate “in
the dry goods district” as well as the “retail streets in the popular sections
of the city.”
1891: Having moved to Abilene, TX in 1884, Bertha Stenbock and
Samuel Lapoweski, the parents of Clarence Lapowski who gained fame as Harvard
trained financier Clarence Dillon, became naturalized citizens today.
1891: “Joseph Barondess, the ex-leader of the Cloak-makers’ Union
disappeared today while out on bail during his appeal of a conviction for
extorting money from the cloak manufacturers.
1891: “The issue of the American Hebrew published today contained
a letter from Baron de Hirsch…which shows that he has by no means abandoned the
plan of colonizing Russian Jewish refugees in the Argentine.”
1893(15TH of Tishrei, 5654): Sukkoth
1893 During the outbreak of Cholera in Italy, the Chief Rabbi of
Leghorn ordered the grand synagogue be closed as a precautionary measure.
1893: It was reported today that “the anti-Semites represented by
Dr. Forester and Rector Ahlwardt have
developed a parliamentary program” which will put an end to Jews immigrating to
Germany. They also seek to “prohibit
Jews from owning land” and not to allow “Jews to enteral the medical, legal,
editorial or military professions.
1893:
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F20B14FE3C5A1A738DDDAC0A94D1405B8385F0D3
1893:
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F50F14FE3C5A1A738DDDAC0A94D1405B8385F0D3
1894:
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F20B15FA3A5515738DDDAF0A94D1405B8485F0D3
1894: “Jews Persecuted In Morocco” published today described the
five pound tax they must pay “for passing along the principals highways” and
the beatings and plundering to which they are regularly subjected.
1894: In Ireland, Lithuanian-Jewish immigrants Abraham William
Briscoe and Ida Yoedicke gave birth to Robert "Bob" Briscoe who was a
member of the IRA and Sinn Féin.
1894: In New York City, Simeon and Belle Lawson (Simeon Levy
before he changed the name) gave birth to playwright and screenwriter John
Howard Lawson who fell victim to the McCarthy era Red Scare.
https://spartacus-educational.com/USAlawsonJH.htm
1895: It was reported today that the Hebrew Mutual Benevolent
Society has paid $2,000 in foreclosure to acquire the property on the west side
of Hoffman Street, south of 187th Street.
1895:
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F60A1EFD3A5911738DDDAC0A94D1405B8585F0D3
1895:
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F20F12FA3C5911738DDDAC0A94D1405B8985F0D3
1895:In Lancaster, PA, Degel Israel an orthodox
congregation was formed with about fifty members.
1896(18th of Tishrei, 5657): Fourth Day of Sukkoth
1896(18th of Tishrei, 5657): Seventy-seven-year old
Henry B. Phillips, the son of Abigail Seixas and Benjamin Jonas Phillips passed
away today in Brooklyn.
1896: “Olympia Theater Opened” published today described the
premiere of Oscar Hammerstein’s new operetta “Santa Maria” the performance of
which the critic described as “excellent.”
1897(28th of Elul, 5657): Parashat Nitzavim
1897: The Bombay correspondent for the Jewish World wrote to that
“the forty-third annual report of the Bene Israel Benevolent Society” shows
“that none of its members or its wards suffered from the plague” and “the
income for the year was 1,048 rupees and the expenditures were 914 rupees.
1897: Birthdate of American author William Faulkner whose works
were dotted with Jewish characters starting with a Jewish salesman in
“Soldier’s Pay,” his first written novel published in 1926 to Barton Kohl, a
Jewish pilot in “The Mansion,” published in 1959. Faulkner’s treatment of Jewish characters
changed over time. Alfred J. Kutzik reportedly published one of the definitive
articles on anti-Semitism in Faulkner’s early works. For more on this topic,
consult “Creative Awakening: The Jewish Presence in 20th Century
American Literature” by Louis Harap.
1897: Jacob Aaron Cantor, a successful lawyer and New York
political leader, married Lydia Greenbaum.
His first wife had passed away 8 years earlier. The couple had three children.
1897: “The Essenes Still Exist” published today described a
revelation made by Halevy at the Oriental Congress in which told the attendees
about the existence of Abyssinian Jews where part of the same sect of Essenes
who had lived at the time of Jews.
Numbering about 200,000 they are so strict in their observances that no
water could be drawn on the Sabbath.
1897: It was reported today that Dr. Isidore Singer is preparing
the Encyclopedia of the History and of the Intellectual Development of the
Jewish Race “which will present in alphabetical order the most important
publications which have appeared in all times relative to the Jews” and will
follow :the format of the Encyclopedia
Britannica.
1897:
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F30F1FF93A5D11738DDDAC0A94D1405B8885F0D3
1898(9th of Tishrei, 5659): Erev Yom Kippur
1898(9th of Tishrei, 5659): Felix Gross, a private in
Company C in the 1st Regiment of the Connecticut Volunteer Infantry
passed away today.
1898(9th of Tishrei, 5659): Samuel Joseph, the native
of London who, at the age of 18 emigrated to New Zealand where he served as an
“an interpreter for explorer Sir George Grey” before moving to Australia where
he went into “business with Jacob Levi Montefiore” and served in both houses of
the legislature, passed away today.
1898: As Jews prepared to observe Yom Kippur beginning this
evening, Dr. Joseph Silverman of Temple Emanu-El said of fasting and attending
worship services, “It is matter of individual feeling and conscience.”
1898: Rabbi Kaufmann Kohler delivered a sermon to the congregants
of Temple Beth El entitled “His Song Is With Me At Night” in which “he
contended that religion was the song of God in the night of human selfishness
and error.”
1898: On the lower east side a mob of angry Jews gathered in front
of Herrick Brothers, the restaurant that advertised it would be open for Yom
Kippur in the Forwards in an attempt to shut it down because it was a
desecration of the holiday.
1898: “Primitive Christianity” published today provides W.S.
Lilly’s view of the early Christians who “were not as yet manifested to world
as a Church” but were “a Jewish sect, practicing all the requirements of the Jewish law
and nourishing their religious life from the Jews sacred books.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F30F1FF93A5D11738DDDAC0A94D1405B8885F0D3
more for 2014
1899:In order to continue "Die Welt", a syndicate in the form of a joint-stock company is
founded by the Actions Committee.
1899:
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=FA0C15FA3C5911738DDDAC0A94D1405B8985F0D3
1899: Birthdate of Russian born and University of Chicago
undergraduate Harry Arnoff Gussin who in 1913 came to the United States where
he pursued a career as a surgeon while raising a Vivian Gussin Paley the hold
of a Ph.D in psychology from Tulane and early education expert with is wife
Yetta Meisel.
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/aug/23/vivian-gussin-paley-obituary?CMP=gu_com
1899: “What Anti-Semitism Has Cost France” published today
described the negative impact that the Jew-baiters Regis, Drumont and their
supports have had on the economy of Algiers.
In 1898 there were 83 bankruptcies which has risen to 105 so far this
year while the wealthy English and Americans are no longer renting expensive
villas.
1899: Birthdate of Budapest native Alexander Neufeld the “football
player and coach.”
1900(2nd of Tishrei, 5661): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1900: “Feast of Rosh Hashanah” published today
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9E05E5DC173FE433A25756C2A96F9C946197D6CF
1900: In New York, members of Temple Beth El continued to be
dismayed by the long simmering breach between Rabbis Kaufman Kohler and Samuel
Schulman that bubbled to the service during Rosh Hashanah Services on the
previous day. According to accounts in the press, the breach was a generational
matter. Kaufman, who appealed to the
older members, preached in German, a language incomprehensible to the younger
generations. Schulman, who had been
brought from the west preached in English and was the choice of younger
members. “Both of the rabbis declined to
discuss the matter. H.S. Herman, one of
the Temple Trustees” publicly denied that there was any friction between the
two rabbis. This episode is not the
first, nor the last, in generational conflicts that will arise in American
congregations.
1901: Today in the "Razamaytashetshi", there was staged Mark
Arnstein’s one-acter in Polish, "Dos eybike lied", and in the same
year a second play "Yehudah Librovitsh".
1901: The funeral of Simon Sterne, the noted attorney and
“authority on railroad and constitutional law” will take place this morning at
40 W. 59th Street followed by burial in the Salem Fields Cemetery.
1901: Today’s Specials at Bloomingdales include Woman’s tailored
suit for $14 and “all the latest books” which are marked down from $1.50 to
eighty-five cents.
1902(23rd of Elul, 5662): Eliyahu Menachem Goitein, the
Hungarian born son of Zvi (Armin) Hirsch Goitein and Szali (Sara) Sarolta
Goitein and husband of Amalia Mahala Goitein passed away today.
1902: “Germany has decided not to associate herself in a formal
manner with the American and British protests against Romanians treatment of
the Jews.”
1902: “The Vienna correspondent of The Daily Telegraph” said in a
dispatch today “that the Roumanian Minister of Foreign Affairs is coming to
Vienna to consult with the Austro-Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs,
concerned the noted addressed by United States Secretary of State Hay to the
signatories of the Berlin treaty with regard to the Jews in Romania.”
1903(4th of Tishrei, 5664):
Sixty-nine year old Kilian von Steiner the German-Jewish banker, industrialist
and patron of the arts who was ennobled by King William of Wurttenberg passed
away today.
1903: Birthdate of Lodz native Bajba Rozen
who was transported to Auschwitz in 1942.
1903: Birthdate of Mark Rothko, a painter
who is often classified as an abstract expressionist, although he vociferously
denied being an abstract painter. He was born Marcus Rothkowitz in Daugavpils
(Dvinsk), Russia (now Latvia) and emigrated to the United States in 1916.His
work concentrated on basic emotions, often filling the canvas with very few,
but intense colors, using little immediately-apparent detail. In this respect,
he can also be considered to presage the color field painters (see Helen
Frankenthaler).Although respected by other artists, Rothko remained in relative
obscurity until 1960, supporting himself by teaching art. In 1958, Rothko was
commissioned by architect Philip Johnson to paint a series of murals for the
Four Seasons restaurant in the Seagram Building in New York. This substantial
project was completed in late 1959. Ultimately, Rothko was not happy having his
paintings as the backdrop to gourmet dining so he gave a set of nine of the
maroon and black works to the Tate Gallery, where they are on permanent display
in an installation designed by Rothko. In 1967, Rothko again collaborated with
Johnson on a church in Houston, Texas, contributing 14 related works in an
installation setting. The church has subsequently become known as "The
Rothko Chapel". Numerous other works are scattered in museums throughout
the world. Rothko's work was secretly supported by the
Painting by Mark Rothko.
1904(16th of Tishrei, 5665): Second Day of Sukkoth.
1904(16th of Tishrei, 5665): “Mrs. Newman Erb, wife of
the Vice President of the Pere Marquette Railroad, was fatally hurt, and Mr.
Erb and four others were injured in wreck on the New York Central Railroad, a
short distance east of Lyons early this morning.”
1904: Birthdate of New York City native Morris J. Kandel, the
“founder and president of the Bonded Fil Storage Company of New York and the husband
of Celia Kandel with whom he had two daughters – Phyllis and Joan.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1957/01/13/91650643.pdf
1905: Birthdate of Professor Nahman Avigad Israeli archeologist
famed for his work at Masada, on the Dead Sea Scrolls, and most important of
all the excavation of the Old City starting in 1969. Among his discoveries were
the great menorah from the Second Temple and the Broad Wall mentioned in the
Book of Nehemiah. He passed away in 1992.
https://www.amazon.com/Discovering-Jerusalem-Nahman-Avigad/dp/0840752997
1905: Pitcher Moxie Manuel made his major league debut with the
Washington Senators.
1905: Birthdate of Bohemian native Friedrich Kohner, the author
and screenwriter who wrote the “Gidget” novels which inspired a whole
“industry” of youth dominated films.
http://articles.latimes.com/1986-09-13/entertainment/ca-11523_1_kathy-kohner
1905: In Charleston, SC, Rabbi B.A. Elzas officiated at the
wedding of Sam Fink and Hattie Levy.
1905: Fifty-two year old Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac
who while serving as Minister of War refused to join his colleagues in a move
to overturn the conviction of Dreyfus even though he knew that the document
used to convict him was a forgery, passed away today.
1906: It was reported today that in Philadelphia, a
box containing an infernal machine addressed to Jacob H. Schiff, the New York
financier, had been stolen from a Chestnut Hill mailbox
by
a boy, who thereby unwittingly upset a plot against Mr. Schiff's life. The box,
disguised as a Rosh Hashanah candy gift, contained enough explosives to blow up
the entire house.
1906:
Sixty-nine year old “Sarah Lukowsky” was buried today at the “Belfast Jewish
Cemetery in Northern Island.”
1907(17th
of Tishrei, 5668): Third Day of Sukkoth observed as Neiman Marcus opens for its
15th day of business.
1907:
Today, Professor Josiah Morse, the Richmond, VA born son of Huldah Baer and
Jacob Morse and the holder of a doctorate from Clark University married Etta
Ferguson after he was a professor of philosophy and education at both the Peabody
College for Teachers and the University of South Carolina,
1908(29th
of Elul, 5668): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1908:
Birthdate of Californian Stanley “Jiggs” Jaloff who led the University of
Washington to back to back basketball championships in the 1920’s.
1908: Jacob Frank, the Burlington, VT born son of
Dora Shufro and Joseph Elihu Frank and University of Vermont trained engineer was
promoted to the rank of 2nd Lt. in the Coast Artillery Corps of the
United States Army.
1909(10th
of Tishrei, 5670): Yom Kippur
1909: Four new Jewish schools open in Turkey.
1909: “The Dollar Princess,” a musical written by Fritz Grunbaum
and with a score by Leo Fall opened today in London today at Daly’s Theatre
where it ran for 428 performances.
1910: In “Young Turk Party Has Revolutionized Sultan’s Land”
published today, Richard Gotteheil who took a year’s leave of absence from
Columbia to spend a year in the Orient, described the changes that have taken
place in Turkey, Palestine and Egypt.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1910/09/25/105092655.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1911(3rd of Tishrei, 5672): Tzom Gadaliah
1911(3rd of Tishrei, 5672): After authorities had
refused to spend time alone with a rabbi, “Dmitry Bogroff, the assassin of
Premier Stolypin, who was condemned to death by court martial was hanged
today.”
1912: Columbia University
Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York. The school and the
Pulitzer Prizes which it awards were possible because of an endowment by
publish Joseph Pulitzer.
1913: Charlie Chaplin signed his first movie
contract for $175. Within three years he
would be making $10,000 a week at Amutual Studios. The Little Tramp was no bum.
1913:
In Kiev, Menahem Mendel Bellis who was accused of a ritual murder in what was a
modern version of the age-old blood libel began today.
1913:
Thirty-year-old HUC trained rabbi Joseph Jasin, the Polish born son of Israel
and Esther Jasin married Ada Rosenfield in New York today after having led
congregations in Texas.
1914:
“Appeal to Jews for Aid” published today described the suffering of the Jews of
Austria and their belief that Austro-Hungarian Empire was fighting to protect
the rights and improve the lot of the Russian Jews suffering under the rule of
the Czar.
1915(17th
of Tishrei, 5676): Shabbat Chol Ha Moed Sukkoth
1915(17th
of Tishrei, 5676): Sixty-nine year old Solomon Fox, the husband of Caroline
Fox, passed away today in Cincinnati, Ohio.
1915(17th
of Tishrei, 5676): 2Lt Bernard Russell Abinger, the cousin of Midshipman Vivian
George Edward S. Schreiber who had been killed while serving aboard HMS
Monmouth lost his life while serving with His Majesty’s forces on the Western
Front.
1915:
Opening of the Battle of Loos, the massive British assault on the Western
Front.
1916:
It was announced today by the publishers of The American Hebrew that “President
Willson has written a letter for publication in the upcoming special New
Year’s” issue of the paper that pays “a high tribute to the citizenship of the
Jews and assuring them of his interest in his ‘fellow citizens of Hebrew
extraction.’”
1917(9th
of Tishrei, 5678): Erev Yom Kippur; Kol Nidre
1917:
At noon today, U.S. soldiers and sailors begin furloughs granted so that they
can observe Yom Kippur.
1917:
Due to air raids, Kol Nidre was “curtailed” in London this evening.
1917:
Today, 2,500 Jewish soldiers are scheduled to from Camp Upton to New York to
attend Yom Kippur Services tomorrow after which they will return to camp. Many of them will be traveling aboard two
special trains where they will be paying $1.20 instead of the usual $3.40
thanks to the efforts of General J. Franklin Bell.
1917:
“As a result of negotiations between Isidore Hershfield, representing the
Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of American and the State
Department, the Secretary of State instructed te American Ambassador to Japan
and the American Consul at Yokohama to make an investigation as to the number
and condition of the Jewish war refugees who have been stranded in Japan on
their way from Russia to America.”
1917:
Among the Jewish leaders “who made vigorous appeals” today the special campaign
being conducted to raise an additional one million dollars for the American
Jewish War Relief Committee were “Stephen s. Wise of the Free Synagogue, Dr.
Samuel Schulman of Temple Beth-El, Dr. Joseph Silverman at Temple Emanu-El and
Judge Otto Rosalsky of the Pinchus Elijah Synagogue.
1918:
Newly promoted Sergeant Abraham Blaustein was among the troops from 165th
Regiment who joined in the massive Allied offensive “from Rheims to Versailles”
that would lead to the capture of thousands of prisoners and more importantly
lead to the end of WW I.
1918(19th
of Tishrei, 5679): Russian born Yiddish actress Keni Lipzin who shared the
stage with Jacob Adler and came to the United States in 1889 where she was so
successful that Abraham Cahan called a “Queen” and opened her own theatre
passed away today in New York City.
1918:
In WW I, “Australian and New Zealand cavalrymen crossed the Jordan River and
entered Amman.” From the Mediterranean
to the Jordan, Eretz Israel was now under the control of the British who had
promised that this would be site of the Jewish home after the end of
hostilities.
1919(1st
of Tishrei, 5680): Rosh Hashanah
1919:
In New York, Yussel (Yussel) Goldmacher and Rose (Rasha) Bailowitz gave birth
to Harry Goldmaker, the husband of Selma Goldmaker
1919: President Wilson suffers a stroke and collapses
after a giving a speech calling for the ratification of the Treaty of
Versailles. Wilson had returned from the Paris Peace Conference with a peace
treaty designed not just to end the hostilities of World War I but to avoid
future conflicts through the creation of the League of Nations. Republicans led by Senator Lodge opposed the
treaty and had the votes to block passage.
Wilson began a cross-country campaign of public appearances designed to
bring the weight of public opinion into the battle for ratification. With the stroke, Wilson could no longer
appear in public. Lodge and the
isolationists triumphed. The treaty was
rejected. The United States did not join
the League of Nations which rendered the international body virtually powerless
even before it held its first meeting.
Wilson predicted that if the treaty and the League were rejected there
would another world war within twenty years.
He would not live to see his tragic prophecy come true. Would World War II have been avoided if the
League had been the organization envisioned by Wilson? Would the Holocaust have not happened if
Wilson’s health had not failed? We will
never know.
1920
(13th of Tishrei, 5681): On Shabbat,
Jacob H. Schiff, banker and philanthropist passed away.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F70E15FD345511738DDDAF0A94D1405B808EF1D3
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fsc53
1920(13th
of Tishrei, 5681): Rabbi Raphael Melamed is scheduled to deliver a sermon
“Gathering Our Harvest” at Congregation Petach Tikvah in Brooklyn.
1921:
“$14,000,000 to Aid Jews” published today described a meeting at the Standard
Club in Chicago hosted by Julius Rosenwald where 200 prominent Jews from
various parts of the country pledged themselves to raise funds for the
suffering, homeless Jews in Europe many of whom are suffering from the effects
of famine.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1921/09/25/98744312.html?pageNumber=2
1921:
In New Orleans, Elsie Waldhorn and Isidore Cohen gave birth to University of
Pennsylvania trained surged Dr. Isidore Cohn, Jr., the “chair of
the Department of Surgery at LSU and the surgeon-in-chief of the LSU service at
Charity Hospital.
https://www.aacr.org/professionals/membership/in-memoriam/cohn-isidore-obituary/
1922:
Radcliff College “opened today” with thirty five Jewish upper classman and
“several more entering freshman which is taken as a sign by some that
“Radcliffe welcomes Jews.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1922/09/26/99079488.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1923(15th
of Tishrei, 5684): Sukkoth
1924:
“Makes Plea to Jews” published today described Professor Einstein’s brief visit
to Vienna where he hopes to interest Austrian Jews “in the work of up-building
Palestine” in the same that has been shown by “their coreligionists in the
United States and Germany.”
1925(3rd
of Tishrei, 5683): Tzom Gedaliah
1925(3rd
of Tishrei, 5683): Seventy-two-year old Russian-American archaeologist and
linguist Immanuel M. Casanowicz, the holder of a Ph.D from Johns Hopkins who
taught “Hebrew and Church History at the German Theological School of Newark in
Bloomfield, NJ” before becoming the “assistant curator of the Division of Old
World Archaeology at the U.S. National Museum in Washington, D.C.” while
writing several works including “Paranomasia in the Old Testament” passed away
today.
1925:
Samuel Gitlow, the Belarus born of Elke and Herschel Gitlow and his wife Esther
Gitlow gave birth to Yvette Tekel today.
1925:
Boston born soprano Gladys Axman, the wife of Clarence Axman, sang the role
tonight of “Santuzza” in double bill of the operettas “Cavalleria” and “Pagliacci.”
1926(17th
of Tishrei, 5687) Shabbat Shel Sukkoth
1926: In Örösveg, the son
of Fani, a homemaker, and Herman-Bernad Mermelstein, a winemaker and his wife
Fani a homemaker gave birth to Mel Mermelstein the sole-survivor of
his family's extermination at Auschwitz. Who defeated the Institute for Historical Reviews in
an American court and had the occurrence of gassings in Auschwitz during the Holocaust
declared a legally incontestable fact.
1926:
The usual Sabbath service at Temple Isaac led by Rabbi Horace Glatt was delayed
so that “Jewish neighbors of the late Borough President Joseph A Guider of
Brooklyn” could attend a memorial service at the Temple where “assistant
District Attorney, Alexander Geismar, a former rabbi,” delivered the eulogy in
which “he praised Mr. Guider for his work in behalf of the Jews.”
1927:
Stephen W. Wise is scheduled to officiate at the funeral services for Rabbi
Rudolph Grossman being held at the West End Synagogue.
1927:
John L. Bernstein, Chairman of the Campaign Committee announced that “appeals
in behalf of the $500,000 campaign of the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Society
will be made” during the upcoming High
Holidays in the 175 Jewish houses of worship.
1928:
In East St. Louis, Illinois, Hymie Gold, a longshoreman and a union shop
foreman from Romania, and “the former Cissy Newmark from London, UK” gave birth
to political operative Vic Gold who worked for Barry Goldwater and Spiro Agnew.
(As reported by Sam Roberts)
1928:
Birthdate of Robert Zuckerkandle, who gained fame and fortune as Robert
Chandler, the CBS executive who played a crucial role in creating the highly
rated and critically acclaimed weekly newsmagazine “60 Minutes,”
1929:
Today, “after the 1929 post Labor Day peak of the Dow, financier and unofficial
advisor to President, Bernad Baruch
refused to join a bull pool of financiers to support the declining market” and
went on to advise humorist “Will Rodgers to exit the market” which he did and
which the comedic cowboy later acknowledged “saved his life.”
1929:
Birthdate of Irving Louis Horowitz, the Rutgers professor who was “an eminent
sociologist and prolific author.” (As reported by Douglas Martin)
1929:
“In Boston, Dena (née Seletsky) and Louis "Lou" Walters (born Louis
Abraham Warmwater)” gave birth to broadcast personality Barbara Walters.
1929:
Today, in Jerusalem, “two Arabs from Nablus who were arrested with hand
grenades in their possession were each sentenced to one year in prison while
Shalom Cohen, who was arrested on a charge of possessing firearms had his bail
doubled when the magistrate charged with the additional crime of
“unpremeditated murder.
1930: Birthdate of humorist and author Shel
Silverstein. His works covered a broad
range of topics and interests. They
ranged from the children's book The Giving Tree to the country hit
"A Boy Named Sue."
1931(14th
of Tishrei, 5692): Erev Sukkoth
1931:
It was reported today that Temple Emanu-El, Central Synagogue, West End
Synagogue and Temple Israel are among the Manhattan congregations that will be
taking part in drive to urge parents to register their children in religious
school.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1931/09/25/96206877.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1931:
His Wife's Lover (original Yiddish title Zayn Vaybs Lubovnik) which “was billed
as the "first Jewish musical comedy talking picture" premiered in New
York City today.
1932:
The New York Times reported that foreign correspondent had been kicked out of
Russia for being a “bourgeois troublemaker.”
1932:
In Toronto, Russell Herbert Gold and Florence Emma Gold (née Greig) gave birth
to Glen Herbert Gold, the Canadian musician who changed his name to “Gould” so
that he would not be mistaken for being a Jewish – a reality that could have
been damaging given the anti-Semitism of pre-war Canada.
1932:
“The formation of a national committee against prepayment of the bonus was
today by S. Stanwood Menken, the Memphis born convert to Christianity who is
the organizer of the National Security League.
1933: Founding
of The Revolutionary Mexicanist Action, known as the Gold Shirts a nationalist
organization headed by Nicolas Rodriquez that
announced in 1935 “that it will energetically seek all means to combat
Jewish activities in Mexico” including withdrawal of citizenship for Jews
living in Mexico, forbidding Jews to participate in politics and forcing Jews
who own factories to turn them over to “Mexican Laborers.”
1933:
Rabbi Simcha Solovetchick, who studied under Rabbi Israel Meir HaCohen Kagan,
the Chofetz Chaim, helped to lead the memorial services for his mentor which
were held at Synagogue Tifereth Israel in Brooklyn.
1934(16th
of Tishrei, 5695): Sukkoth II
1934:
Today, as the Nazis pursued their plunder of the Jewish population under the
guise of Arenization, Alfred Leonhard Tietz, resigned from the Supervisory Board
of the Tietz department stores after which “he and his partner Julius Schloss
were forced to sell their shares, whose market value had plummeted due to Nazi
persecution.”
1934:
As the Nazis pursue their twin policies of anti-Semitism and being host for the
1936 Olympics, it was reported today that German authorities seemed
considerably worried lest the ban on Jewish juvenile organizations in Berlin,
Potsdam, Essen and other cities be interpreted by the American Olympic
committee as interfering with Jewish sports.
1935:
In Berlin, “a spokesman for the Foreign Office acknowledged today that
Siegfried Hey, the deputy chief of the Eastern division had left government
service because of his ‘non-Aryan’ status because his position, along with that
of Richard Mayer and Robert Ulrich, two financial experts had become
“untenable” under the “the decree of September 15 which separated Jews…from
Aryan citizens…”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1935/09/26/93776713.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1935:
Today, Mr. I.B. Varshavsky was elected president of the Jewish community in
Hailar, China.
http://www.jewsofchina.org/hailar
1936(9
of Tishrei, 5697): Erev Yom Kippur
1936:
“Leading rabbis of twelve countries, headed by Chief Rabbi Joseph Hertz of
Great Britain joined in a solemn protest to civilized conscience against the
vilification of the Jewish people, especially dealing with Chancellor Hitler’s
‘insatiable hatred of the Jews.’”
1936:
At Temple Emanu-El, Dr. Samuel delivered a sermon entitled “A New Heart and a
New Spirit.”
1936:
At Temple Israel, Rabbi William F. Rosenblum delivered a sermon entitled
“Taking Stock of Civilization.”
1936:
At the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue Dr. David de Sola Pool “urged his
congregation ‘to rise to a level of living in which he normal consciousness
will be dominant.’”
1936:
At the Young Women’s Hebrew Association, Rabbi Phineas Israeli delivered a
sermon entitled “Serving God With Joy.”
1936:
At Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun, Rabbi Joseph H. Lookstein delivered a sermon
entitled “The State of Jewry.”
1936:
At Congregation Ohab Zedek, Rabbi William Margolis “listed five nations that
needed atonement including Italy which speaks “through the lips of her
neo-Caesar,” Spain, Poland, Germany and England which needs “to keep open the
gates of Palestine for Jewry.”
1936:
At the Free Synagogue, Dr. Stephen S. Wise delivered a sermon entitled “
Atonement—With Whom?”
1936:
Judge Louis Goldstein delivered the sermon at The Williamsburg Young Men’s and
Young Women’s Association of Brooklyn.
1936:
Dr. Wolf, the Grand Rabbi of Allied Synagogues delivered the sermon at the
Times Square Temple on 7th Avenue.
1936:
At Congregation B’nai Jershurun Dr. Israel Goldstein called on his congregants
to “let the Jew continue to stand for human brotherhood.”
1936:
At the Wall Street Synagogue, Rabbi Joseph Hager praised “Israel as nation of
the earth” “assembled, stirred by the same sentiments and animated by the same
feelings.”
1936:
“Rabbi Morris Lichtenstein spoke at the Jewish Science Society” today.
1936:
Rabbi Samuel Greenfield led the services for Isaiah Temple which held its
services at the Pythian Temple.
1936:
At the West End Synagogue, Rabbi Hyman Judah Schachtel delivered a sermon
entitled “On Wings of the Spirit.”
1936:
At Mount Neboh Temple, Rabbi A. L. Feinberg called on his congregants to
“proclaim a world-wide day of fasting and prayer.”
1936:
At the Montefiore Hebrew Congregation, Rabbi Jacob Katz delivered a sermon
entitled “Truth and Patience.”
1936:
Rabbi Sidney S. Tedesche led Kol Nidre
services at the Union Temple which met at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
1936:
At Congregation Rodeph Sholom, Rabbi Louis I Newman “said that reckless vows of
vengeance must annulled.”
1936:
At the Institutional Synagogue Annex, Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein delivered a
sermon entitled “The Synagogue” in which he said “the safety of the Jew in
America lies in his attachment to the synagogue.”
1936:
The Maccabee soccer team of Palestine goes through its final drill this
afternoon at Yankee Stadium in preparation for its Sunday match with the All
Stars which will be played in the House that Ruth Built.
1936:
“Fräulein Lilli or Miss Lilli is a German language comedy film directed by Max
Neufeld and Hans Behrendt both of whom died in Nazi concentration camps and
Robert Wohmulth who escaped to the United States after the Anschluss and with
music by two Jewish composers – Artur Guttmann and Hans J. Salter – was
released today in Austria.
1936:
“Books of the Times” provided a review of Mainland by Jewish author
Gilbert Seldes which “deals with music, fascism, drama, Jefferson, literature,
communism, mass production, the movies, John Strachey, populism, Lawrence
Dennis, the Oneida Community, wages, Amos ‘n’ Andy, the American dream, farm
markets, Jews, the purpose and meaning of life, Christopher Columbus, Marx, the
power age, the New Deal, philosophic pluralism, radio advertising” and a whole
lot more.
1936:
“An editorial by Robert Farinacci, the former Secretary-General of the Fascist
party,” that appeared in today’s issue of the Regime Fascista charged “that
Jews have caused recent European disturbances by an ‘essentially subversive’
international policy…”
1937(20th
of Tishrei, 5698): Shabbat Chol Hamoed Sukkoth
1937:
While serving with Asiatic Fleet, Hyman Rickover was promoted to the rank of
Lt. Commander while serving as the skipper of minesweeper Finch.
1937:
When Vittorio Mussolini, the son of “Italian dictator Benito Mussolini” arrived
in Los Angles to begin his study of film making, he was greeted by ads run in
the newspapers by the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League.
1937(20th
of Tishrei, 5698): Eighty-year-old Albany, NY native Henry E. Stern, “a senior
member of the law firm of Stern and Hirschfeld” and a “former City Court judge”
passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1937/09/26/96749391.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1938(29th
of Elul, 5698): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1938:
In the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, Abe Hoffman whose family
lived behind their store at 2309 East Fourth Street was born at Lincoln
Hospital
http://home.earthlink.net/~nholdeneditor/a_boyle_heights_boyhood.htm
1938:
At seven o’clock in the morning Levi Yitzchok Bender “out to Rebbe Nachman's
gravesite for a few minutes to recite the Tikkun HaKlali (the "General
Remedy" which is customarily recited at the gravesite). He was spotted by
another Jewish man known to be a government informer. Bender pleaded with the
man not to report him, but as he walked back to his friend's house, he noticed
the informer following him. Since he was familiar with all the back roads of
Uman, he managed to shake him off his trail.
1939(12th
of Tishrei, 5700): Harold U. Hirsch who played football at the University of
Georgia from 1900 to 1901, studied law at Columbia University and was the
general counsel for The Coca-Cola Company for more than thirty years passed
away today. According to some Hirsch was
instrumental in the development of the unique shape of the Coca-Cola bottle and
the logo in 1913. In 1932, a new building was completed for the University Of
Georgia School Of Law, a building named Harold Hirsch Hall in honor of Hirsch.
1940(22nd
of Elul, 5700): Forty-eight year old Walter Benjamin killed himself with “an
overdose of morphine tablets” tonight as he awaited repatriation to France
where he would be turned over to the Nazis.
http://www.haaretz.com/chronicling-walter-benjamin-s-final-hours-1.449897
1941:
In Kovno, the Germans gave the Jewish Council 5,000 work passes, placing upon
them the burden of choosing who shall work and live, and who shall die.
1942:
While sailing from Newfoundland to the United Kingdom the SS President Warfield was attacked by a German submarine 800 miles
west of Ireland. The ship evaded the
torpedoes and made it safely to port.
The SS SS President Warfield would gain fame in 1947 as the SS Exodus.
1942(14th
of Tishrei, 5703): Erev Sukkoth
1942(14th
of Tishrei, 5703): Four hundred eighty-one French Jews, including Rene' Blum,
the brother of the former French Prime Minister were killed in Birkenau.
1942:
Despite growing resistance, 2,000 Jews from Kaluszyn were sent to be killed at
Treblinka. Kaluszyn was a predominantly Jewish town in Poland about thirty
miles from Warsaw. The Jewish
population grew as Jews from other areas sought refuge there. Unfortunately most of them ended up at
Treblinka. The Sefer Kalushin or Book of Kaluszyn describes the
fate of the community in grim detail.
1942:
Two thousand more Jews were deported from the "show ghetto" at
Theresienstadt.
1942: Learning about the impending liquidation of their ghetto, some Jews
of Korets, Ukraine sought refuge in the woods while others resist by setting
the ghetto ablaze. Resistance is led by Moshe Gildenman.
1942: Swiss police decree that race alone does
not guarantee refugee status, thus preventing Jews from crossing the Swiss
border to safety.
1942: Seven hundred Romanian Jews, interned at
Drancy, are deported to Auschwitz.
1942(14th
of Tishrei, 5703): Abraham Gamzu, chairman of the Jewish Council at Kaluszyn,
Poland, is executed after refusing to deliver Jews for deportation. Six
thousand of the town's residents are deported to the Treblinka death camp and
later killed.
1942:
Lian Berkowitz, a member of the anti-Nazi Red Orchestra was arrested and
formally charged today in Berlin.
1942(14th
of Tishrei, 5703): 475 French Jews are gassed at Auschwitz. One of the victims
is ballet director René Blum, the brother of former French Prime Minister Léon
Blum.
1942: The SS
Warfield, an American coastal ship that had been “lent” to the British
avoided being sunk during a U-boat torpedo attack as steamed towards the
British Isles. The SS Warfield would
enter history five years later as the SS Exodus.
1942:
Catcher Harry Danning played the last game of his 9 year major league baseball
career all of which was spent with the New York Giants.
1943:
“Thank Your Lucky Stars” a musical comedy produced by Mark Hellinger, written
by Melvin Cantor and starring Eddie Cantor and S.Z. Sakall which was really a
fund raiser of the Hollywood Canteen founded by John Garfield was released in
the United States today by Warner Brothers.
1943:
The Foreign Economic Administration which Sidney Henry led as executive
director was formed today.
1943: The Chief Rabbi of Athens, Ilia Barzilai, escaped from the
city disguised as a peasant. He reached Thessaly where he promoted the Greek
partisans, saving some 600 Jews by smuggling them across the Aegean to Turkey.
The smuggled boats and money came from the Jewish Labor Federation in
Palestine.
1943:
After two days of selections, only 2,000 out of 10,000 Jews remained in the
Vilna Ghetto. They were placed in local labor camps.
1944(8th
of Tishrei, 5705): Herschel “Harry” Gitlow, the Son of Anshul Zhidlowski and
Bella Zhidlowski and husband of Elke Gitlow passed away today in Spring Valley,
NY.
1944:
Birthdate of Cambridge, MA native Eugenia Rich who gained fame as the
multitalented flutist, author, and journalist Eugenia Zukerman whose name
change was the result of her marriage to Pinchas Zuckerman whom she divorced in
1985. She started to study English at
Barnard, but later transferred to the Julliard School where she studied with
flutist Julius Baker. Zukerman went on to win the Young Concert Artist Award in
1971, beginning her career with rave reviews and a warm welcome by the music
world. During her career, Zukerman has performed with orchestras, in solo and
duo recitals, and in chamber music ensembles in North America, Europe, and
Asia. Since 1998, Zukerman has served as Artistic Director of the international
Vail Valley Music Festival in Colorado's Rocky Mountains. Zukerman's talent and
career cannot be condensed into one area, however. In addition to her musical
achievements, Zukerman is an author of two novels and several screenplays, and
is also a journalist, reporting as the arts correspondent for CBS Sunday
Morning since 1980.
http://www.eugeniazukerman.com/artist.php?view=bio
1945(18th
of Tishrei, 5706): Eighty-four-year-old Austrian music critic , the son of
composer of Erich Wolf Korngold, the husband of Josephine Korngold, the father
of orchestra conductor John Korngold and composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold, who
came to United States where he won an Osca for the writing the original score
for “Robin Hood” passed away today in California.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1945/09/27/305506782.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1945:
A parade was held at Bergen-Belsen in the British zone of occupied German
marking the first Congress for Survivors.
http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/september/15.asp
1946(29th
of Elul, 5706): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1946:
“Justice for the wandering, destitute Jews of Europe and their embattled
brethren in Palestine was urged today by Jewish religious and lay leaders and spokesmen
for the other faiths in messages for Rosh ha-Shanah, the Jewish New Year, 5707
which” begins tonight at Sundown.
1946:
“Palestine continues to be the beckoning promised land of more than 200,000
displaced Jews of Europe and they would favor some political compromises to
attain self-determination there, Rabbi Philip S. Bernstein, the American
adviser on Jewish affairs in Germany declared today in a statement issued by
the War Department.”.
1947(11th
of Tishrei, 5708): Dora Meyerhardt, the daughter of Max and Rosalie Julius and
the wife of Max Meyerhardt passed away today in Jefferson City, MO.
1947:
Birthdate of Dr. Yehuda Lancry, the native of Boujad, Morocco who made Aliyah
in 1965 where he eventually served as Ambassador to France. Ambassador to the
United Nations and MK before he had to endure the murder of his niece Noa
Shlomo in a suicide bombing.
1948(14th
of Elul, 5708): Parashat Ki Teitzei
1948(14th
of Elul, 5708): Fifty nine year old Russian native Jacob J. Heller, “a vice
president of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union and author of two
volumes of poetry – My Union, My Life and Moments of Meditation who was the
husband of Rose Heller and father of Mrs. Gertrude Adler passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1948/09/26/96434244.pdf
1948:
As Dmitri Shostakovich celebrates his birthday today while awaiting arrest by
the Soviet secret police, he listens to a performance of “From Jewish Folk
Poetry,” a medley of tunes which he had written as sign of solidarity with the
Jewish artists being persecuted by Stalin.
1949(2nd
of Tishrei, 5710): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1949:
In “Whither Thou Goest” published today Gladys Schmitt provided an in depth
review of Ruth by Irving Fineman.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1949/09/25/93547997.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1951:
New York’s Mayor Impellitteri left Rome today aboard an Israeli government
plane which was flying him to Tel Aviv.
1951:
In Los Angles, Endre Bohem and his wife gave birth to screen writer Leslie
Bohem.
1952:
“University of Maryland authorities denied today that anti-Semitism played any
part in the denial of dormitory facilities to 30 girls who were graduated from
a high school in a section of Baltimore which has a large Jewish population”
even though “no other Maryland high school graduates had received such
notices.”
1953:
Ralph Lemkin, who had “coined the term genocide” and who had spoken out against
Soviet genocide aimed at the Ukrainian people told a crowd of “10,000 Americans
of Ukrainian descent gathered at Washington Square” that the Soviets had
employed the “high crime of starvation” just as it “had been employed 100 years
ago against the Irish.”
1953(16th
of Tishrei, 5714): Sukkoth II
1953(16th
of Tishrei, 5714): Ninety-one year old “gastroenterologist and inventor of
surgical instruments” Dr. Max Einhorn, the Polish born son of “Abraham and Sara
Hoffman Einhorn” who had come “to the United States as ship’s doctor in 1884
and served in the Army Medical Corps during WW I” passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1953/09/26/84425674.pdf
http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_735243
https://www.jta.org/1953/09/28/archive/dr-max-einhorn-noted-medical-authority-dies-in-new-york
1953(16th
of Tishrei, 5714): Three days before his 85th birthday, Baruch Kahn
the son of Leopold Kahn and Judith dite Louise Léa Kahn and the husband of
Constance Kenendel Lang passed away today in Germany.
1954(27th
of Elul, 5715): Parashat Nitzavim
1954(27th
of Elul, 5715): Sixty-two-year-old Nathan Aronoff, the Russian born son of Dora
and Isaac Aronoff passed away today in Philadelphia after which he was buried
at Har Jehuda Cemetery in Upper Darby, PA.
1954:
CBS broadcast the last episode of the radio “anthology series” narrated by Paul
Frees today.
1955(9th
of Tishrei, 5716): Erev Yom Kippur; Kol Nidre
1955(9th
of Tishrei, 5716): Sylvia Snyder Meisler, the daughter of Benjamin and Clara Rose
Lazarus Snyder and the wife of Stanely Meisler passed away today after which
she was buried in the Montefiore Cemetery in Abington Township, PA.
1955:
“Dondi” a comic strip about a war orphan co-created by Irwin Hansen appeared
for the first time in daily newspapers in the United States.
1955:
The Los Angeles Rams, coached by Sid Gillman defeated the San Francisco 49ers
today.
1956(20th
of Tishrei,): A Jordanian patrol crossed the border into Israel and opened fire
on a group of women picking olives near the village of Aminadav killing Zohara
Umri, an immigrant from Yemen.
1956:
The Israeli Cabinet discussed a reprisal mission for the terrorist
attacks. Ben-Gurion called for a
“vigorous” response in the upcoming night time attack.
1957(29th
of Elul, 5717): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1958:
ABC broadcast the final episode of “Navy Log” the anthology series that gave
Don Devlin “his first acting role” and that featured theme music by Irving Bibo
and Fred Steiner.
1958:
“A Forceful Social Drama” published today provides as look at Sidney Kramer’s
“The Defiant Ones” co-starring Tony Curtis and featuring Austrian born Jew
Theodore Bikel as the quintessential Southern Sheriff.
http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9E0CE0D61430E73BBC4D51DFBF668383649EDE
1959:
Shaaray Tefila dedicated its new sanctuary on the corner of East 79th
Street and Second Avenue.
1959(22nd
of Elul, 5719): Eighty-two year old
Baltimore native Ernest Wise Keyeser, who like his uncle Ephraim Keyser
was a sculptor who was a member of the “National Sculpture Society” and whose
work include a statute of Sir Galahad passed away today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Wise_Keyser#/media/File:Sir_Galahad_statue.jpg
1959:
A summit meeting between Eisenhower and Khrushchev during which the treatment
of Soviet Jews is to be one of the topics opened today at Camp David, MD.
1959:
Funeral service are scheduled to be held at Levin’s in Philadelphia for “Mrs.
Evelyn Aronson Margolis the civic, religious and education leader” who was the
widow of Max. L. Margolis, the noted Biblical scholar and Professor of Biblical
Philology at Dropsie College followed by “interment in Mt. Sinai Cemetery.”
1960(4th
of Tishrei, 5721): Tzom Gedaliah
1960:
Birthdate of Boston native and Cornell University graduate Jonathan Haskell
Talamo, the Johns Hopkins University trained Ophthalmologist.
1961(15th
of Tishrei, 5722) Sukkoth
1961:
Premiere of “The Hustler,” the dark film starring Paul Newman, produced and
directed by Robert Rossen for which Eugen Schüfftan won the 1962 Academy Award
for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White.
1962:
“The Longest Day” an epic about D-Day with a screenplay co-authored by Romain
Gary and featuring Red Buttons and George Segal was released today in France
and the United States.
1962:
Following tonight’s World Heavyweight Boxing Title Fight between Sonny Liston
and Floyd Patterson, the Department of Justice assigned attorney Robert Arum
“to confiscated the proceeds from the match.
1964(19th
of Tishrei, 5725): Fifth Day of Sukkoth
1964(19th
of Tishrei, 5725): Eighty-three year old
Johns Hopkins undergrad and U. of California Ph.D. Benjamin Abram Bernstein,
the Lithuanian born son of Wolf and Chaija Esther (Shalowitz) Bernstein, the
husband of Rose Davidson and brother-in-law of sculptor Jo Davidson who was
longtime Professor of Mathematics at the Cal, Berkley passed away today.
https://dpg.lib.berkeley.edu/webdb/hstc/search?author=&item=77
1964:
Birthdate of San Francisco native Marc Russell Benioff, the “billionaire
internet entrepreneur” who bought Time.
1965:
After 220 performances “Do I Hear a Waltz?”
a musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Richard Rodgers, and
lyrics by Stephen Sondheim closed its initial Broadway run at the 46th
Street Theatre.
1966:
At the Hampshire House, Rabbi Theodore N. Lewis officiated at the wedding Lois
Eidenoff, whose father Maxwell is a professor of chemistry at Queens College
and Ira Weinstein.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/09/26/93859871.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1966:
Eighty-three-year-old Anna Kramer, the Ukraine born “daughter of Yankel
Osadchiy and Perel Osadchiy, the wife of Victor (Avigdor) Kramer and mother of
Nathan (Nochem) Kramer and Abraham Albert Kramer” was buried in Sharon, MA today.
1966:
In case of Jew versus Jew up and coming Chicago southpaw Ken Holtzman posted a
victory against Dodger’s southpaw Sandy Koufax in their only meeting.
1967:
Following the Six Days War, Kfar Etzion was reestablished by the children of
the original settlers. The Kibbutz was destroyed and its defenders (including
women) massacred after surrendering in May 1948 during the War for
Independence.
1967(20th
of Elul, 5727): Fifty-nine-year old Philadelphia native, Jules Cohen, the
attorney who was President of the Association of Jewish Community Relations
Workers and a member of The Jewish Community Relations Council of Philadelphia
which was founded in 1939 passed away today.
1967:
Birthdate of Noreena Hertz, the daughter of “feminist activist Leah Hertz” and
the “great-granddaughter Rabbi Joseph Hertz who The Observer dubbed as “one of
the world’s leading young thinkers” and Vogue described as “one of the most
inspiring women in the world.”
1968(3rd
of Tishrei, 5729): Tzom Gedaliah observed for the last time during the
Presidency of Lyndon Johnson.
1970:
The PLFP released the Jewish and Israeli hostages it had been holding since the
so-called Dawson Field Hijackings. The
PLFP had previously released the other hostages on September 11.
1970
(24th of Elul, 5730): Ninety year old Estelle Liebling famed soprano and a
member of a prominent Jewish musical family passed away today.
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/liebling-estelle
1970
(24th of Elul, 5730): Erich Paul Remark
passed away at the age of 72. Using the
pseudonym of Erich Maria Remarque he
gained fame as the German author of “All Quiet on the Western Front.” Writing
from his experiences as a German soldier in World War I, Remarque wrote a novel
about the folly of war. The novel was
later turned into a Hollywood hit movie.
The Nazis disapproved of the book and banned and burned copies of it.
For the Nazis it was not enough to brand Remarque, a Catholic, as a pacifist. They created the myth that he was a Jew named
Kramer and even worse, the Kramers had originally been French Jews. What is worse than being a Jew? Not being a Jew but being branded as one.
1971(6th of Tishrei, 5732): Shabbat
Shuva; the term Sabbath of the Return takes on a special irony since Jews, like
their fellow American citizens will have to “return” to living on the current
salaries without promised increases due to Richard Nixon’s first-ever peace
time wage and price controls.
1972:“A
National Conference on Soviet Jewry National Assembly was convened at B’nai
B’rith headquarters in Washington, DC.”
1973:
King Hussein of Jordan secretly flew to Tel Aviv to warn Prime Minister of an
impending attack by the Syrians. The
king said he thought, but was not entirely sure, that the Syrians would not
being contemplating this unless the Egyptians were going to attack as
well. Mrs. Meir and her advisors
including the Defense minister ignored the warnings.
1974(9th
of Tishrei, 5735): In the evening Kol Nidre
1974(9th
of Tishrei 5735): Seventy-three year old Nicolai Poliakoff, the native of
Dvinsk,”who was the creator of Coco the Clown, arguably the most famous clown
in the UK during the middle decades of the 20th century” passed away today in
Northamptonshire, England.
1974:
“The California Kid” a west coast car movie starring Vic Morrow and featuring
Stuart Margolin was released today in the United States.
1974:
“Judggernaut” a high seas thriller directed by Richard Lester was released in
the United Kingdom today.
1975:
“Funeral services were held today for Florence S. Perlman the daughter of Max
and Dora Bierman and the widow of Judge Nathan D. Perlman, who was a member of
the national board of Hadassah.
1976(1st
of Tishrei, 5737): Last observance of Rosh Hashanah under President Ford.
1976:
After only 16 performances the curtain came down on “Checking Out,” a Broadway
play directed by Jerry Adler and starring Joan Copeland, Hy Anzell and Mason
Adams opened at the Longacre Theatre tonight.
1977:
At the Great Neck Synagogue, Rabbi Ephraim Wolf officiated at the marriage of
Deborah Marilyn Wolf and Brooklyn Law School trained attorney Lawrence David
Waxman.
1977:
The Jerusalem Post reported that the
cabinet was expected to accept a new American plan for the reconvening of the
Geneva Peace Conference.
1979(4th
of Tishrei, 5740): Eighty-six year old Ben Touster, the “former President of
the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society” (HIAS) passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1979/09/27/archives/ben-touster-dead-at-86-a-former-hias-president.html
1980(15th
of Tishrei, 5741): Sukkoth is observed for the last time under President
Carter.
1980(15th
of Tishrei 5741): Eighty-four year old two-time Oscar winning director Lewis
Milestone (born Leib Milstein) who created such classics as “All Quiet on the
Western Front” and “The Front Page” passed away today.
http://www.upi.com/Archives/1980/09/26/Pioneer-film-director-Lewis-Milestone-dies/5468338788800/
1980:
Leonard Bernstein conducts the premiere performance of Divertimento for
Orchestra.
1980(15th
of Tishrei, 5741): Ninety-year old labor
organizer and early champion for the rights of working women Rose Finkelstein
Norwood passed away today.
http://jewishcurrents.org/september-10-rose-norwood-lifelong-organizer-20865
1981(26th
of Elul, 5741: Sixty eight year old Aaron Cohen, the son of David and Eva Cohen
passed away today after which he was buried at Ahavas Sholom Congregation
Cemetery in Baltimore County, MD.
1981:
“True Confession,” “a crime film directed Ulu Grosbard and produced by Robert
Chartoff and Irwin Winkler was released in the United States by United Artists.
1981:
“So Fine,” a comedy written and directed by Andrew Bergman was released in the
United States today.
1982(8th
of Tishrei, 5743): Shabbat Shuvah
1982:
“In Israel, 400,000 marchers demand the resignation of Prime Minister Menachem
Begin.
1982:
“Peace Now held a mass protest in Tel Aviv in order to pressure the government
to establish a national inquiry commission to investigate the massacres, as
well as calling for the resignation of the Defense Minister Ariel Sharon.”
1985(10th
of Tishrei, 5746): Yom Kippur
1985:
PLO terrorists from Force 17 “hijacked an Israeli yacht off the coast of
Larnaca, Cyprus” and murdered the three Israelis on board in cold blood.
1986:
Third season of “The Cosby Show” co-created by Ed Weinberger began tonight.
1986:
NBC broadcast the first episode of season five of “Family Ties” a sitcom
created by Gary David Goldberg.
1987:
Randy Cohen and Katha Pollitt gave birth to “Sophie Pollitt-Cohen, author of
the bestselling book, The Notebook Girls, written while Pollitt-Cohen
was a student at Stuyvesant High School.”
1987:
“The Princess Bride” a film based on William Goldman’s novel of the same name
produced and directed by Rob Reiner and starring Mandy Patinkin, Peter Falk and
Billy Crystal was released in the United States today.
1988:
“Heirs of Sol Goldman Battle Over Estate” published today described the court
fight over hundreds of millions of dollars of real estate that began with the divorce
proceedings instituted by Lillian Goldman and her now late husband Sol Goldman.
1992:
“The Last of the Mohicans” directed and produced by Michael Mann who
co-authored the script with music by Randy Edelman was release in the United
States a month after having been released in France.
1993(10th
of Tishrei, 5754): Yom Kippur is observed for the first time under President
Clinton.
1995(1st
of Tishrei, 5756): Rosh Hashanah
1995:
In Atlanta, GA, Dr. Stan Fineman, his head and shoulders draped with a
traditional prayer shawl, will raise a shofar to his lips and join with
millions of other Jews around the world today in carrying out a tradition that
has been used to usher in the Jewish New Year since biblical days.
1995:
Barton Gellman reported today on an agreement that would “extend self-rule to
more than 1 million Palestinians.
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-853569.html
1997:
José Joaquín Bautista Arias, the Dominican born right-handed pitcher with the
Israeli wife, pitched his final major league baseball game for the St. Louis
Cardinals.
1997:
The St. Thomas synagogue build was declared a National Historic Landmark today.
1997:
NBC broadcast “Veronica’s Closet” a sitcom created by David Crane and Marta
Kauffman for the first time.
1997:
NBC broadcast the first episode of season 9, the final season, of “Seinfeld.”
1998: “Tango” an
Argentine-Spanish film with music by Lalo Schifrin was released in Spain today.
1998:
NBC broadcast the first episode of season seven of “Homicide: Life on the
Street” a gritty look at Baltimore inspired by David Simon’s book Homicide:
A Year on the Killing Streets.
1998:
“Urban Legend” a slasher film co-starring Michael Rosenbaum was released in the
United States today.
1998:
In Cincinnati, Ohio, Sabrina and Todd Thalbum give birth to their daughter
Gabriella Elizabeth (Gavriella Elisheva) Thalblum
1999(15th
of Tishrei, 5760): Sukkoth is celebrated for the last time in the 20th
century.
1999(15th
of Tishrei, 5760: Ninety-one year old Italian-born geneticist Guido Pontecorvo
who fled from his homeland to Great Britain in 1938 to avoid growing
anti-Semitism passed away today.
1999:
Heather deForest Crosby and Steven Terner Mnuchin, the future Secretary of the
Treasury and Donald Trump loyalist, were
married this “evening by Cantor Ronald Broden at Cipriani Wall Street in New
York.”
https://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/26/style/weddings-heather-crosby-steven-mnuchin.html
2000:
“Urbania” which had premiered at the Sundance Film Festival” starring Dan
Futterman had a limited release in the United States as of today.
2001:
Israeli and Palestinian officials said today that the oft postponed meeting
between their leaders that President Bush has been calling for could take place
tomorrow.
2002:
NEEMO 4, whose NASA Aquanaut Crew included Jessica Meir, continued for a third
day
2003(28th
of Elul, 5763): Franco Modigliani, winner of the 1985 Nobel Prize for
Economics, passed away. In 1939, Modigliani was forced to flee from his native
Italy because of his Jewish ancestry and anti-fascists views. Active until the end, Modigliani enlisted
fellow Nobel laureates Paul Samuelson and Robert Solowin 2003 to write a letter
published in The New York times chiding the Anti-Defamation League for
honoring Italy's Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi. Berlusconi had recently
defended Mussolini’s conduct toward Jews during World War II.
2003:
Singer and actress Ellen Greene married for a second time today.
2004(10th
of Tishrei, 5765): Yom Kippur takes on a special solemnity as the thoughts of
Jews turn to those fighting and dying in Afghanistan and Iraq
2005: The New York Times featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest includingThe Marchby E. L. Doctorow
and The Shame of the Nation: The
Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America by Jonathan Kozol.
2005:
The Jerusalem Post reported that a
research grant of $5.6 million in the field of bio-defense has been awarded by
the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the
US National Institutes of Health (NIH), to a Hebrew University of Jerusalem researcher
for the development of a broadly effective drug against a family of toxins
called super antigens.
2005
(21st of Elul, 5765): Jewish psychologist Urie Bronfenbrenner, founder of Head Start, passes away. (As reported by
Margalit Fox)
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-sep-27-me-bronfen27-story.html
2005:
A truck, donated by Bruce Silverman, the husband of “Cantor Vikki” left Tampa
filled with relief supplies for the victims of Hurricane Katrina donated by
Congregation Beth Am
2006(3rd
of Tishrei, 5767):Tzom Gedaliah
2006:
“An Israeli newspaper reported today that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert held a
secret meeting about 10 days ago with a senior Saudi Arabian official to
discuss issues that included Iran's nuclear program and prospects for
Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.”
2007:
In Washington, D.C., Bloomingdale’s under the leadership of
2007:
Yuval Baruch, an achaeologist with the Israeli Antiquities Authority, announced
the discovery of a quarry compound which provided King Herod with the stones to
renovate the second Temple. It houses the Temple Mount Coins, pottery and iron
stake found proved the date of the quarrying to be about 19 BC. Archaeologist
Ehud Netzer confirmed that the large outlines of the stone cuts is evidence
that it was a massive public project worked on by hundreds of slaves.
2007:
Jerome “McDonnell hosted John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt to discuss their
controversial book The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy on Chicago Public Radio station WBEZ (91.5
2007:
The Jewish Film Festival in Dallas, TX comes to a close.
2007:
Eighty-year old Brigadier General Felix Sparks “an American military commander
who led the 3rd Battalion of the 157th Infantry Regiment of the 45th Infantry
Division of the United States Army, the first Allied force to enter Dachau
concentration camp and liberate its prisoners” passed away today.
2008: Yehuda Amital officially announced his
retirement in the yeshiva, to take effect on the last day of the Jewish month
of Tishrei, in the year 5769 (October 28, 2008). He also announced that Mosheh
Lichtenstein, the son of his co-Rosh Yeshiva Aharon Lichtenstein, would assume
the position as the fourth Rosh Yeshiva on that same day.
2008:
Ryan Braun hit his first grand slam home run.
2008:
In Montreal, demolition began on Bens De Luxe Delicatessen and Restaurant, a
culinary institution opened by Ben and Fanny Kravitz in 1908.
2008:
Paul McCartney appears in concert in Tel Aviv “43 years after being banned by
the Israeli government.” At the time,
Yaakov Sarid, the Education Ministry’s director was blamed for the
cancellation. According to Sarid’s son,
the concert was cancelled because of a dispute between two Israeli concert
promoters, Yaakov Uri and Giora Godik.
2008:
At Columbia University’sInstitute for
Israel and Jewish Studies, The Sylvia and Joseph Radov Lectures present Amos Oz
the renowned Israeli author, Agnon Professor of Hebrew Literature at Ben-Gurion
University whose topic for the evening is entitled “Between Israel and
Palestine “
2008:Students and visitors at the Hebrew University in
Jerusalem will be able to look at the stars through Albert Einstein's long lost
telescope starting this evening. University officials said it had been
completed renovated after being retrieved from a storage shed. The legendary
physicist who theorized the famous relations among energy, speed and mass
received the telescope in 1954, the year before he died. It was a gift from a
friend named Zvi Gizeri, who probably made it himself, university officials said.
It's not known how much Einstein used it, but a demonstration for The
Associated Press showed it still works well enough to show five moons of
Jupiter and the rings on the huge planet. After three years and about $10,000
in renovations, the telescope is set to be on display for the public in
conjunction with Researchers Day, when schools across Europe and Israel will
open their laboratory doors to the public. Einstein, who was a co-founder of
the Hebrew University, willed his records to the school. There were rumors
through the years that he also left a telescope, but it took modern sleuthing
and some luck to find it. The old reflecting telescope is cumbersome by modern
standards. The long black tube about eight inches (20 centimeters) in diameter
and two yards (meters) long and stands on a base experts said may have been
taken from the German army. It was this unique base, recognizable in a picture
of Einstein with the telescope, and a signature from Gizeri on one of its
mirrors, that confirmed its authenticity in 2004, when a biologist named Eshel
Ophir connected the dots. The forgotten telescope was first discovered in a
storage shed in the late 1990s by a computer specialist at the school. But he
did not recognize it as Einstein's, and it was left in the shed. Ophir made the
connection by accident, initially mistaking another forgotten telescope for the
famous physicist's. After searching through the archives and photos, Ophir
realized the real Einstein telescope was actually the one his colleague had
found unceremoniously years earlier. Ophir immediately took the telescope to
the University's Meyerhoff Youth Center, where he was serving as director,
"to protect it, to clean it," he said. With the exception of a new
assisting telescope, the rest of the device, from lenses to optics, is
original. It is unlikely, though, that a theoretician like Einstein, who won a
Nobel Prize in 1921 for his theory of relativity, would have had much use for a
telescope in his work. "I don't think anybody investigated into Einstein's
stargazing habits," said Dvora Lang, the current director of the Meyerhoff
Youth Center, where the telescope is still displayed. "But it was for his
pleasure, not for his work." The newly unveiled telescope will not be
housed with the rest of his documents at the Jewish National and University
Library but will remain in the Meyerhoff center for use by 10 to 18-year-old
students. "This is setting them on fire," Lang said. She added that
she hoped by looking into the telescope of one of the greatest scientists of
the 20th century, a new generation of Israeli children would be inspired to
learn more about science. The telescope will also be available for public use
once or twice a year, Ophir said.
2008:
Natural population growth in Israel that was partially canceled out by negative
growth in the Diaspora resulted in a net increase in the past year of 70,000
Jews, according to data released today by the Jewish Agency ahead of Rosh
Hashana. There are 13.3 million people around the world who define themselves
as Jewish and who do not belong to any other faith. Jewish Agency Chairman
Ze'ev Bielski said the data proved that a "tangible danger of assimilation
was hanging over the Jewish people." The survey was conducted by Prof.
Sergio Della Pergola from the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute and the
Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University. Over the past
year, the Jewish population in Israel grew by 85,000, while there was a decrease
of 15,000 in the Diaspora. There are 5.55 million Jews in Israel and 7.75
million in the Diaspora, meaning 41.3 percent of World Jewry now resides in the
Jewish state. The United States is next, with 5.3 million Jews, or 39.8%, then
France with 490,000, Canada with 375,000, Britain with 295,000, Russia with
215,000 (340,000 in the entire FSU), Argentina with 183,000, Germany with
120,000, Australia with 107,000 and Brazil with 96,000. There are about 1.5
million people in North America who are either Jews married to a non-Jew or are
the offspring of a mixed Jewish-non-Jewish couple. According to the Jewish
Agency, this is proof that assimilation is growing. Bielski said the agency
would "step up its efforts to provide Jewish education in Diaspora communities
and to strengthen the Jewish identity of the new generation and tighten the
ties between Israel and the Diaspora." Other data released by the agency:
There is one Jew living in Afghanistan, 95 countries have 100 or more Jews,
there are 11 million people living in the US who are eligible for automatic
citizenship under the Law of Return, and another million in the FSU.
2009:
In New Orleans, Touro Synagogue celebrates Shabbat Shuvah with services and a
Friday night dinner.
2009:
In Jerusalem, Boris and Friends and the Klezmerim appear at the Alrov Mamilla
Avenue amphitheater.
2009:
Mark Landler provides background about Michael Oren in “Israel Ambassador Draws
on American Roots”
2009:
The Guggenheim presents “It Came from Brooklyn” a multi-dimensional cultural
event that features cellist Yoed Nir and readings from Rivka Galchen.
2009:An Israeli airstrike to
night killed three members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement who were
on their way to fire rockets into Israel. The three men were hit near their
vehicle in the Tufah area east of Gaza City .A fourth man was injured. The men
were part of a group responsible for firing homemade Qassam rockets and mortar
rounds into Israel in recent weeks, including two that fell on the border town
of Sderot over the Rosh Hashanah holiday last weekend. The Islamic Jihad
movement confirmed that the men were part of the group's armed wing, the
al-Quds Brigades, but did not comment further.
2009:
Ehud Olmert, the former prime minister of Israel, appeared in court today for the opening of his trial on charges of
corruption, a spectacle that could mark a new low in the annals of Israeli
public life. Mr. Olmert was indicted on three counts of corruption in late
August after a lengthy investigation that forced him to resign last fall. The
accusations include fraud, breach of trust, falsifying corporate records and
failing to report income. The allegations relate to the years when he served as
mayor of Jerusalem and as a senior cabinet minister before he became prime
minister in 2006. If convicted, he could face prison, although prosecutors have
not specified what penalty they will seek.
2010:
Ed Miliband and David Miliband are two of the Laborite MP’s who are awaiting
today’s announcement as to who would be the party’s new leader.
2010(17th
of Tishrei, 5771): Shabbat Chol Ha-Moed Sukkoth.
2010:
“The Glazer Children’s Museum opened in downtown Tampa” today.
2010:
This evening the DC young professional Jewish community is scheduled to lead a
tour of DC’s finest sukkahs where they will visit three locations with unique
themes: Etrogs & Eggrolls, Lulavs & Leis, and Starlight & Sweets
with each location featuring unique food and drinks.
2010:
In a battle of the brothers for the leadership of Britain’s Labour Party, the
younger of the two, Ed Miliband, 40, was elected on Saturday, beating his
brother David, the 45-year-old former foreign minister, by a margin of a little
more than 1 percent of the votes in a runoff. With his victory over his brother
and three other candidates, Ed Miliband became the successor to the former
prime minister, Gordon Brown, at Labour’s helm, and faced the challenge of
regenerating the party after its demoralizing defeat by the Conservatives in
May’s general election. In his acceptance speech, he acknowledged that the
party had “lost the election, and lost it badly,” and spoke of the “scale of
the journey” to regain power. “I recognize it will not be easy,” he told
delegates to Labour’s five-day annual conference in Manchester, which opened
its proceedings with the leadership vote. The four-month contest involved five
contestants, but it resolved early on into a two-man race between the Miliband
brothers, both ministers in the defeated Brown government and both Oxford
graduates, though each with roots in different Labour camps: Ed Miliband
broadly identifies with the party’s traditionalist left wing and Mr. Brown, who
made him energy minister in his government, and David Miliband with the
reformist movement known as New Labour which carried Tony Blair to three
successive victories before he yielded as prime minister to Mr. Brown in 2007.
The contest was also a window on the Milibands’ redoubtable family. Their father,
Ralph Miliband, was a Marxist intellectual and writer who reached Britain from
Belgium in 1940 after fleeing advancing Nazi forces. Their mother, Marion
Kozak, also a left-wing activist, arrived with her family from Poland in the
early 1950s. Ralph Miliband is buried beside Karl Marx in London’s Highgate
Cemetery, while his widow, Marion, at 76, remains active in Labour.
2010:
Former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro’s surprising words of support for Israel’s
right to exist and empathy with the tragedies of Jewish history elicited warm
words from Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and a letter of thanks from
President Shimon Peres. Castro, in a recent interview with The Atlantic’s
Jeffrey Goldberg, said Israel “without a doubt” has the right to exist, and
criticized Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for his Holocaust denial,
saying Iran should understand the consequences of theological anti-Semitism. “I
don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews,” Castro said. “I
would say much more than the Muslims. They have been slandered much more than
the Muslims because they are blamed and slandered for everything. No one blames
the Muslims for anything.” Earlier in the week Goldberg wrote on his blog that Castro said
he understands how such Jewish suffering could inform the decision-making of
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. “Now, let’s imagine that I were Netanyahu,”
Castro said, “that I were there and I sat down to reason through [the issues
facing Israel], I would remember that six million Jewish men and women, of all
ages were exterminated in the concentration camps.” According to Goldberg,
Castro also expressed great admiration for Netanyahu’s father, Ben-Zion, the
world's foremost historian of the Spanish Inquisition, and said he was
impressed “by his character, his knowledge and his history.” Netanyahu’s office
sent out a statement Saturday saying Castro’s words “demonstrate his deep
understanding of the history of the Jewish people and Israel.” The Prime
Minister’s Office also sent out links to Goldberg’s blog related to the Castro
interview. A source in the Prime Minister’s Office explained that Castro’s
words were being highlighted because the former Cuban president is an icon to
the world’s radical-left which is trying to de-legitimize Israel and say it has
no right to exist. Castro’s comments about Israel’s fundamental legitimacy are
therefore not without significance, he said. Peres sent a letter to Castro via
Israel’s ambassador to the UN to his Cuban counterpart, saying that Castro’s
“unexpected” words “moved” him. “Your words are like a surprising bridge
between a harsh reality and a new horizon,” Peres wrote in Spanish. “And for
that I thank you with all my heart. You showed that even those distant can be
close."
2011(26th
of Elul, 5771): One hundred-nine year old psychologist and broadcast
personality Helen Faith Keane Reichert, passed away today.
http://cornellsun.com/section/news/content/2011/09/27/university%E2%80%99s-oldest-alumna-dies-109
http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Sept11/HappyReichertObit.html
2011:
Wolf “Blitzer was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters by the
University of Hartford.”
2011:
Israel Police confirmed today that the road accident that killed a man and his
infant son near Kiryat Arba on Friday may have occurred after a rock was thrown
at their vehicle. Police investigating the death of Asher, who was 25-years-old
and his one-year-old son Yonatan Palmer, who were found in their car after it
flipped over near the West Bank city, discovered a large rock with signs of
blood on it. The Israel Defense Forces Spokesperson’s Office issued a statement
shortly after the crash on Friday in which it declared the Palmers' death to be
the result of an accident and not a terror attack. However, police have now
verified that the car veered off the road after a rock was allegedly thrown by
a Palestinian at the vehicle. Representatives of the family and the police
reached a deal with the Supreme Court this afternoon allowing the police to
take a sample of blood from the elder Palmer’s body to compare it with the
blood on the rock. The request had been initially denied. The funeral for
father and son is to be held in Hebron this evening. The police first requested
permission from the court last night to autopsy the body of Asher Palmer, who
was driving in the car with his son at the time of the crash. A representative
of the police, Officer Tzvi Moses, said that the investigation indicated that
Palmer veered off the road either because he fell asleep at the wheel or lost
consciousness. Moses added that that there were three rocks in the car, two of
which entered the vehicle when it flipped over, and one that went through the
front windshield. The police said that there was a gash on Palmer’s lip that
could have been caused by a rock, and it is possible that it caused him to veer
off the road. The Hebron District Police are currently investigating 18 cases
in which stones were allegedly thrown from Palestinian vehicles, Moses said. At
first, Judge Alexander Ron, whose own son was killed in a car accident a year
ago, rejected the request to autopsy the body. He contended that there is no
need to conduct an autopsy because “it is highly likely that a rock was thrown
that scared the driver and caused the accident.”
2011:
Ukrainian police detained dozens of people today protesting against what they
called an uncontrolled influx of Jewish pilgrims to the town of Uman, police
and the Ukrainian nationalist party Svoboda said. The protest, attended by
about 100 people, took place days before the 70th anniversary of the Babi Yar
massacre, the mass killing of Jews by Nazis after the occupation of Kiev in
1941. Uman, a town of 90,000 in central Ukraine, is the site of an annual
pilgrimage by tens of thousands of Hasidic Jews who visit the grave of a
prominent Jewish cleric, Rebbe Nachman of Breslov. Svoboda held the protest
rally in Uman to demand stricter legal and sanitary controls on pilgrims. Its
activists say the pilgrim influx must be better regulated and presents a security
and health risk. "We are not anti-Semites, we do not have anything against
Jews," Tetyana Chornomaz, the head of the regional Svoboda unit, told
Reuters by telephone from Uman. "(But) we have many questions regarding
their (pilgrims') stay in Ukraine." Chornomaz said riot police detained
about 20 people following brief scuffles after the rally but it was not clear
if they faced any charges. Interfax news agency quoted the Interior Ministry as
saying police had detained about 60 people.
2011:
The Taba Border Crossing was closed today to Israelis trying to enter Egypt,
while anyone carrying a foreign passport was allowed to cross the border as
usual. The decision came after the IDF announced that 2 days ago that forces on
the Israel-Egypt border had been placed on high alert after threats were
received that Hamas was planning terror activity in the area, the IDF
spokesman's office stated. According to army officials, Hamas operatives sought
to undermine the Palestinian Authority's UN statehood bid by carrying out an
attack, Israeli media reported. The IDF beefed up its security forces along the
Egyptian border after a terror cell managed to infiltrate into Israel last
month and carry out multiple attacks against civilians and IDF soldiers,
killing eight people. Hamas has come out publicly against the statehood bid,
saying that the Palestinian Authority cannot act unilaterally.
2011:
The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including “The Quest” by Daniel Yergin, “The
Sibling Effect” by Jeffrey Kluger, “A Contest For Supremacy: China, America and
the Struggle for Mastery in Asia” by Aaron L. Friedberg and the recently
released paperback issued of “Great House” by Nicole Krauss.
2011:
The Los Angeles Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or
of special interest to Jewish readers including “American Dreamers” How the
Left Changed a Nation” by Michael Kazin, the son of Alfred Kazin and “The
Quest” by Daniel Yergin.
2011:
An exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York entitled “Collecting Matisse and
Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore” is scheduled to end today. The
exhibition “features over 50 of these works of art—including paintings,
sculptures and works on paper by Matisse, Picasso, Gauguin, Renoir, van Gogh,
Pissarro, Courbet and more—on loan from The Baltimore Museum of Art. In
addition to modern masterpieces, the exhibition includes textiles and
decorative arts from Europe, Asia and Africa that the Cones collected, as well
as photographs and archival materials to highlight the remarkable lives of
these Jewish sisters. Also featured in the museum galleries will be an
interactive virtual tour of their adjoining Baltimore apartments, showing their
remarkable collection as it was displayed in their home.
http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/conecollection
http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/conecollectionhttp://www.womanaroundtown.com/sections/playing-around/collecting-matisse-and-modern-masters-the-cone-sisters-of-baltimore
2012:
As the family and friends of Gavi Thalublum prepare for Yom Kippur they share
in the joy of her natal day.
2012:
Security and rescue forces were on high alert and deployed in large numbers in
Jerusalem and throughout the West Bank for Yom Kippur, which begins this
afternoon and ends tomorrow at dusk. Ahead of the holiday, IDF Chief of Staff
Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz ordered a 48-hour closure of West Bank and Gaza Strip
border crossings beginning yesterday at 11:59pm and continuing until tomorrow
at 11:59pm, the IDF Spokesman's Office said yesterday.
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=286216
2012:
Several mortar shells fired from Syrian territory fell inside the Golan Heights
today, marking the first time the ongoing violence in Syria has spilled inside
Israel's borders.
http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=286203
2012:
The White Sox will play the Cleveland Indians in Chicago starting at 1:10 in
instead of 7:10 p.m. thanks in part to calls from fans asking that the game be
moved so as not to conflict with Yom Kippur.
The change also means that White Sox third baseman Kevin Youkilis will
be able to play the game and still keep his record of having never played on
Yom Kippur intact.
2012(9th
of Tishrei, 5773): Ninety year old Maurice S. Friedman, “Martin Buber’s
biographer,” passed away today. (As reported by Paul Vitello)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/06/books/maurice-s-friedman-martin-bubers-biographer-dies-at-90.html
2012(9th
of Tishrei, 5773): In the evening, for the 90th year in a row,
members of Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, Iowa gather to begin their observance
of Yom Kippur
G'mar
Chatimah Tovah
2013:
“Fill the Void” is scheduled to open in Tunkannock, PA
2013:
“The Wiener Library is scheduled to host the UK launch of a new book co-edited
by Anny Dayan Rosenman and Fransiska Louwagie. Un ciel de sang et de cendres:
Piotr Rawicz et la solitude du témoin (A sky of blood and ashes: Piotr Rawicz
and the loneliness of the witness) is a study of Ukrainian-French Holocaust
survivor Piotr Rawicz and his novel Le sang du ciel (translated as Blood from
the Sky).
2013(21st
of Tishrei, 5774): Hoshanah Rabbah
2013:
“Larry Ellison's Oracle Team USA defeated Emirates Team New Zealand to win the
34th America's Cup in San Francisco Bay, California.”
2013:
A family from New York was the victim of a serious attack by rioting Arabs this
afternoon, as they were making their way to pray on the Mount of Olives, east
of Jerusalem's Old City. (As reported by Uzi Baruch and Ernie Singer)
2013:
“Iranian President Hasan Rouhani today condemned the Holocaust as a crime
against humanity in a CNN interview with Christiane Amanpour”
http://www.timesofisrael.com/rouhani-condemns-holocaust-as-crime-against-humanity/
2013:
Israeli forensics experts are helping the Kenyan government comb the site of
the terrorist takeover of the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya’s cabinet
secretary said on Twitter today. (As reported by Lazar Berman)
http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-forensics-experts-in-nairobi-helping-with-attack-aftermath/
2014:
Musa Abu Marzouk, a senior Hamas official, announced today that the Palestinian
Authority government would soon manage all the border crossings in the Gaza
Strip.
2014:
Member states of the UN nuclear agency rejected an Arab resolution criticizing
Israel over its assumed atomic arsenal, in a diplomatic victory for Western
states that opposed the initiative.
2014:
The FBI said today it has identified the man behind the beheading videos of 3
hostages including Steven Sotloff.
2014(1st
of Tishrei, 5775): Eight-eight year old Professor Joseph Cohen who founded the
Jewish Studies Program at Tulane University passed away today.
http://www.crescentcityjewishnews.com/newcomb-professor-joseph-cohen-succumbs-at-88/
2014(1st
of Tishrei, 5775): Rosh Hashanah
שנה טובה, כתיבה וחתימה טובה.
2015: In Tel Aviv, The Alexander Boutique Hotel is
scheduled to White City Shabbat eve dinner.
2015:
Cellist Inbal Segev is scheduled to perform J.S. Bach’s Cello Suites in
Brooklyn, NY.
2015:
The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington is scheduled host a walking
tour of Jewish Downtown Washington today.
2015:
Lewis Black is scheduled to perform in Medford, OR.
2016:
The Middle East Center for the Arts is scheduled to host the opening of “an
exhibition presented by Umm El-Fahem Art Gallery in Israel.
2015:
“Former IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz said today he was not more concerned
about Israel’s security following the signing of the nuclear accord between
Tehran and world powers, adding that he saw the benefits of the deal which he
said had prevented war and that the deal was a case of the “cup half-full.” (As
reported by Rebecca Shimoni Stoil)
2015:
After premiering in Belgium ten days ago, “The Intern” which was directed by
Nancy Meyers who also wrote the script and co-produced the film was released in
the United States.
2015:
Cantor Sings for the Pope at Ground Zero and a Catholic Priest joins in the
singing!
http://www.nbcchicago.com/multimedia/pope-ground-zero-jewish-cantor-329546691.html
2016:
The New York Times features reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including The Face of Britain: A History of the Nation Through Its Portraits
by Simon Schama, Avid Reader: A Life by Robert Gottlieb and His Final
Battle: The Last Months of Franklin Roosevelt by Joseph Lelyvled
2016:
The Jewish Children’s Regional Service, a worthy organization that lives up to
its name is scheduled to host its Annual Gift Wrapathon at the Goldring/Woldenberg
Jewish Community Campus in Metairie, LA.
2016:
As part of the Agudas Achim Centennial—100 Days of Celebration, the
congregation is scheduled to the Jewish Antiques Roadshow in Coralville, IA.
2016:
At 1:00 AM, Chabad Lubavitch is scheduled to being Selichot in Little Rock, AR.
http://www.arjewishcenter.com/multimedia/media_cdo/aid/427556/jewish/Selichot-with-the-Rebbe.htm
2016:
Thanks to a group of anonymous “angels “The Headstone Unveiling for Kevin
Skinner is scheduled to take place in Eben Israel Cemetery
2016:
“Every Minutes Counts” an exhibition featuring the photographs of Katherine
Joseph who “documented the golden age of organized labor, when hundreds of
thousands of primarily-immigrant men and women labored in garment factories and
worked to turn them from sweatshops into union shops” is scheduled to come to a
close at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education.
2016:
“Legal expert Van Pearlburg” is scheduled to deliver a lecture on “The Leo
Frank Case” at the Marietta (GA) Museum of History.
2016:
“A public concert scheduled to be held in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square days ahead of
Yom Kippur was cancelled today after key sponsors pulled support over the lack
of any women on the lineup.”
2016:
“Women Hold Up Half the Sky” an exhibition inspired by Half the Sky is
scheduled to open at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center.
2016
(22nd of Elul): Yahrzeit of Joseph B. Levin, or Yosef Dov, the
father of Avraham Elimelech and the son of Avraham Elimelch.
2016:
Prime Minster Netanyahu who is in New York because of the annual meeting of the
U.N. General Assembly is scheduled to meet with presidential candidates Donald
Trump and Hillary Clinton.
2017:
Manhattan Jewish Experience is scheduled to host a Monday night class for
“young Jewish professionals in their 20s and 30s.”
2017:
The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host the third session of “Proust
in Time: Swann’s Way” in which Rebecca Ariel Porte examines the writing of In
Search of Lost Time.
2017:
Yeshiva University Museum and YU Center for Israel Studies is scheduled to host
“a walking tour through YUM’s exhibition The Arch of Titus – from Jerusalem to
Rome, and Back, as he explores the image and legacy of the Arch of Titus from
Imperial Rome to modern-day Israel” led by historian Steven Fine.
2017:
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York), has urged President Donald
Trump and his administration to support an independent Kurdish state after an
overwhelming majority of Iraqi Kurds voted for cutting ties with Baghdad in a
referendum held today.
2018:
This evening, the 92nd Street Y is scheduled to host Kate Atkins
“who will discuss her new thriller, Transcription, about a British
female spy under threat after World War II.”
2018:
This evening “The Ciesla Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that
produces documentaries that break stereotypical images of Jews in history and
celebrates the untold stories of Jewish heroes” is scheduled to co-host a panel
that includes Aviva Kempner which will discuss “The Rosenwald Legacy” and “its
impact on the lives of its recipients.”
2018(16th
of Tishrei, 5779): Second Day of Sukkoth
2018(16th
of Tishrei, 5779): Seventy-three year old cultural “impresario” Sydney
Goldstein, the San Francisco born daughter of “Edward and Dorian (Goldman)
Goldstein” passed away today. (As reported by Katherine Q. Seelye)
2019:
On the secular calendar one month anniversary of the death of Deb Levin.
2019:
In Livermore, CA, the Vine Cinema and Alehouse is scheduled to host a screening
of “Heading Home: The Tale of Team Israel,” a “documentary about the Israel
baseball team in the 2017 World Baseball Classic.”
2019:
In San Francisco, the JCCSF is scheduled to host Ilana Kaufman of the Jews of
Color Field Building Initiative leading “a conversation about the newly
released 2019 demographic study on U.S. Jews of color.”
2019:
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation is scheduled to host a screening of “Rosenwald,”
followed by a discussion with “director Aviv Kempner, biographer Peter Ascoli
and curator Daniel Schulman.”
2019:
The Yeshiva University Museum and the American Sephardi Federation is scheduled
to host “A Tribute to Oded Halahmy and the Music of Babylon.”
2019:
In London, JW3 is scheduled to host the penultimate screening of “Safe Spaces.”
2019:
The 92nd Street Y is scheduled to host author Michael Dobbs,
Holocuast survivor Sonja Geismar and journalist Adam Kuperstein as they discuss
The Unwanted: America, Auschwitz and a Village Caught in Between.”
2020:
In Ohio, Rabbi Roland is scheduled to lead Kabbalat Shabbat services at
Congregation Shaarey Tikvah.
2020:
The National Museum of American Jewish History is scheduled to host an online
memorial service of Justice Ginsburg this afternoon.
2020:
Tehran, a new espionage thriller from Fauda writer Moshe Zonder, is scheduled
to premiere globally today, exclusively on Apple TV+.
2020:
The Contemporary Jewish Museum is scheduled to host a virtual “Family ArtBash
from Home.
2020:
JCC of Greater Boston is scheduled to present “Shabbat and New Year Circle
Time, “a socially distanced circle time” where families and friends bring their
own blankets and “enjoy Shabbat and New Year-themed stories and songs.”
2020:
Associate Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Z”L is scheduled to shatter
one more ceiling today when she becomes the first woman to ever lie in repose
at the U.S. Capitol.
2020:
“All In: The Fight for Democracy,” a film about voter suppression that
“explores Stacey Arbams’ run for governor in Georgia in 2018” which was created
by documentary filmmaker Liz Garbus is scheduled to premiere on Amazon Prime.
2021:
Temple Sinai of Brookline is scheduled to host in-person “Tot Shabbat”
2021(19th of
Tishrei, 5782): Shabbat Chol Hamoed Sukkoth – Read Ecclesiastes in the
afternoon;
2022: In San Francisco,Popular Judaica artist Amiee Golant is scheduled to unveil the sign she created for Unity Spiritual
Center and shares traditions, customs and foods related to Rosh Hashanah and
High Holidays.
2022: “Bad Jews,” a play
by Joshua Harmon is scheduled to be performed for the last time in London.
2022: The New York Times
features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to
Jewish readers including Democratic
Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal
Establishment by Brad Snyder
2022(29th
of Elul, 5782): Erev Rosh Hashanah
2023(10th
of Tishrei, 6784): Yom Kippur
“G'mar chatima tova
v’tzom kal! May you be sealed for a good year and have an easy fast!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofXKZGsq6C0
2023: In keeping with a
tradition started by Congregation Beth Jacob founded in 1906, in Cedar Rapids,
the “downstairs minyan” led by Brian Cohen provides a traditional Yom Kippur
service.
2023: On the Jewish
Calendar, 50th anniversary of the start of the Yom Kippur War.
2024: Nick Winton, Jr.
is scheduled to give a lecture in Cedar Rapids in which he will tell“the story of his father leading people in the saving of 669 children in Czechoslovakia in 1938-39
truly inspires the world.”
2014(22nd
of Elul): Yarhrzeit Joseph B. Levin, husband of Deborah Levin z”tzl, father of
Judy z”tzl, Mitchell and David without whom literally, this blog would never
exist and who prophetically told me that someday somebody would pay me write “a
simple declarative sentence.”
2024; The National
Library of Israel is scheduled to host a performance of the musical “Last Night in Florence,” which is “set in Italy in 1938 and
inspired by a true story, this original musical tells a tale of love between
the son of the Chief Rabbi of Florence and the daughter of an assimilated
family.”
2024:
Gottlieb’s Restaurant, a deli in the heart of Satmar territory” which was
closed on the day that Donald Trump was scheduled to make a campaign stop because
of the owner’s death, is scheduled to re-open today.
2024:
As September 25th 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 356 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)