OCTOBER 29
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969:
Byzantine troops occupy Antioch which was then part of Syria but would become
part of Turkey in the 20th century. Antioch is one of the oldest
cities in the world having been founded in the 4th century BCE by
one of Alexander the Great’s generals.
Over the centuries, control of the city changed hands many times. The
Arabs had conquered the city during the 7th century and held it
until the Byzantine returned in the 10th century. At one time,
Antioch would appear to have had a thriving Jewish community. However, Emperor Pochas tried to force the
Jews to convert to Christianity in the first decade of the 7th
century and when the Jews resisted most of them were either killed or forced
into exile. Little is heard about them until the latter part of the 12th
century when Benjamin of Tudela reported that there were approximately ten
Jewish families living in the city, most of whom were engaged in the glass
making industry.
1285: John le Romeyn, who on his way home from the Papal
Curia at Rome in 1292 met in Paris his old acquaintance , Bonami, the Jews and
acquired from his claim to a debt of £300 which was owed to Bonami by the
Brindlington Priory, was elected Archbishop of York today.
1422:
Charles VII of France becomes king in succession to his father Charles VI of
France, the monarch who had banished the Jews from France.
1462:
Jews were expelled from Mainz, Germany.
1486:
Obadiah ben Abraham of Bertinoro, who had served as the rabbi in Bertinoro and
Castello, left Italy and began the journey that would lead him to Jerusalem two
years later. He was a student of Joseph
Colon Trabotto and authored a commentary on the Mishnah.
1654:
Christopher Packe, who disappointed Oliver Cromwell when he became a militant
exclusionist during the debate about allowing the Jews to return to England
became Lord Mayor of London today.
1626:
Vincent II, whom “Jewish violinist and composer” Salamone Rossi served as
Concert Master, began his reign as Duke of Mantua.
1741:
Handel completed the third and final act of his oratorio “Samson” which was
based on the tale told in chapter 16 of the Book of Judges.
1743:
Abraham De Leon and his wife gave birth to “Sarah (Abigail) De Leon.”
1757:
“In order to stimulate manufacturing in his realm” while taking advantage of
the lack of civil rights accorded to the Jews, Frederick the Great of Prussia
decreed “that no Jews should receive new privileges unless they promised to
start factories” and that any Jew who started a new factory would be permitted
to “register an additional child.”
1768:
Birthdate of New York City Joseph Abrahams, the son of Abraham Isaac Abrahams
who changed his name to Joseph Andrews.
1769(27th
of Tishrei, 5530): Parashat Bereshit read as “The Portolá Expedition of 1769
which was the first Spanish land exploration of California camped close to the
mouth of Pilarcitos Creek today.
1777:
During the American Revolution, the Supreme Council of Pennsylvania appoint
Solomon Bush, the son of Matthias Bush, Deputy Adjutant-General of the State
Militia
1788:
In Philadelphia, PA, Miriam Marks and Benjamin Abraham Nones gave birth to
“Isaac (Moses) Nones who passed away one day short of his 17th
birthday.
1789:
In London, Hannah Montefiore and Moses Ancona gave birth to Judah Ancona.
1796:
In Bavaria, Moses and Marianne Marie Luchs gave birth Seligmann Pinchas Luches,
the husband of Judith Marx Luchs.
1809:
Today marked the beginning of George III's jubilee year, for it was on that
date in 1760 that he had ascended the throne. This Biblical celebration was
celebrated in a Biblical spirit. The remission of debts in the fiftieth year
was not overlooked, and the Great Synagogue, in common with other Jewish
congregations, raised a subscription for the fund for the relief and discharge
of persons who in accordance with the harsh practice at the time had been
imprisoned for small debts. A special service was moreover held in the
Synagogue on the great day, at 1 o'clock in the afternoon. A Hebrew prayer,
specially composed for the occasion by the Rabbi, and translated into English
by Joshua van Oven, was recited: and an ode celebrating the anniversary was
sung by a trained choir.
1811:
In Furth, Germany, Leser Lazarus Ochs, the son of Sara and Joel Ochs and his
wife Nanette Ochs gave birth to Caroline Sellinger, the wife of Samuel
Sellinger and the mother of Pauline Barkhouse, Max Sellinger and Josephine
Hellman who died Louisville, KY.
1811:
Birthdate of New York native and “commission merchant” Emanuel B. Hart, the New
York City Alderman and member of the House of Representatives who also served
as a Lt. Col. in the state militia and Surveyor of the Port of New York.
1814(15th
of Cheshvan, 5575): Parashat Vayera
1814(15th
of Cheshvan, 5575): Twenty-two-year-old Tarrytown, NY native Abraham Marks, the
son of Joachabed and Michael Marks passed away today.
1814:
In Middlesex, Esther Spyer and Lawrence Phillips gave birth to Frances
Phillips.
1817(19th
of Cheshvan, 5578): Birthdate of Israel Lewis-Barned, the adopted son of Israel
Barned and Amelia Mozley and the husband of Emily De Symons whom he married in
1859.
1822:
In Furth, Bavaria, future resident of Louisville, KY Nanette Ochs, the daughter
of Mayer (Meier) Wetzler and Madel Wetzler and her husband Leser Lazarus Ochs
gave birth to Caroline Sellinger, the Kentucky resident who was the wife of
Samuel Sellinger with whom she had three children – Pauline, Max and Josephine.
1823:
In Charleston, SC, Hertz Wolf (Fritz) Oppenheim and Catharine Oppenheim gave
birth to Joseph Hertz Oppenheim the husband of Hanna Oppenheim.
1824:
Birthdate of Thomas Francis Bayard, who as “President Cleveland’s Secretary of
State” in 1885 wrote to the U.S. charge d’affairs in
Vienna expressing his disgust with the government of Austria-Hungary’s refusal
to accept Anthony M Keiley as the American minister “on the ground of his wife
being a Jewess.”
1831:
Birthdate of Leopold Sonnemann the “publisher and editor of the Frankfurter Zeitung” and founding member
of the German People’s Party.
1832:
Solomon Samuel married Frances Israel at the Western Synagogue today.
1833:
All Jews except for peddlers and petty traders were granted civic equality in
the Germanic domain called Hesse-Cassel. The remainder of Germany took nearly
forty years to follow suit.
1843(5th
of Cheshvan, 5604): Sixty-nine-year-old Nathan Rubino, the son of Minkel and
Ruben Moses Rubino passed away.
1844:
In Vienna Charlotte and Anselm von Rothschild gave birth to the youngest child
Albert Salomon von Rothschild nicknamed “Salbert.”
1844:
Birthdate of Siegfried Goldschmidt the native of Cassel who earned a Ph.D
before serving as a volunteer in the Franco-Prussian War after which “he was
appointed assistant professor of the newly created University of Strasburg.”
1845:
Israel Beer Josafat, a native of Kassel, Germany, “moved to London, where he
called himself Joseph Josephat.” By the
end of the next month he would be known as Paul Julius Reuter, the founder of
Reuters News Agency.
1847:
In New York Lewis and Augusta Feuchtwanger gave birth to Charles Feuchtwanger
1847:
In “Kalwarya, Poland,” Moses Guinsberg and his wife gave birth to Theodore
Guinsburg who served as a cantor in Hartford, CT before assuming that some
position at Congregation Ahawath Chesed Shaar Hashomayim in New York City.
1848(2nd
of Cheshvan, 5609): Fifty-six-year-old surgeon and War of 1812 veteran,
Mordecai Hendricks Leon, the son of Jacob de Leon and the husband of Rebecca
Lopes passed away today in Charleston, SC.
1850:
Birthdate of Dutch native Marie Bathilde Woolf, the wife of Sidney Woolf with
whom she had ten children.
1850:
In Cadiz, OH, Joseph Ullman, the German born son of Rosa and Hayim Solomon
Uhlmann and his wife Sarah Ullman gave birth to Isaac Ulman
1850:
In Dubrouna, Alexander Sender Frumkin and his wife gave birth to Israel Dov
Frumkin who moved to Jerusalem at the age of 9 where he became a Hebrew author
and journalist.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0007_0_06918.html
1851(3rd
of Cheshvan, 5611): Rebbe Yisrael of Ruzhin the leader of the Sadigur Chassidus
passed away today.
1852:
Todays issued The Asmonean, a weekly that first “appeared under the patronage
of the leading synagogues of New York” “appeared within black borders” “to
marks the demise of Senator Daniel Webster.
1854:
In Louisville, KY, Isaac Sale and his
wife gave birth to Samuel Sale the University of Berlin educated rabbi who
served as the rabbi for Congregation Shaare Emeth in St. Louis for 32 years and
occupied the “Chair of Hebrew at Washington University in St. Louisl
1855:
In New York, Judith Salzed Hays, the New York born daughter of Dr. Daniel Moses
Levy Maduro Peixotto and Rachel Lopes Mendes Peixotto and his wife of David
Solis Hays gave birth to Rebecca Touro Hays
1856:
Today in London, Mary Ada Goldsmid married Frederick David Mocatta, the son of
Abraham Mocatta and Miriam Brandon.
1857:
Birthdate of Konrad Haebler the German born linguist and librarian whose works
included studies on early Hebrew printers and Hebrew books.
1857:
In Leiden, South Holland, The Netherlands, Renetta Netje Benjamin Goldsmith, the
daughter of Benjamin Hartog Vos and Geertruida Isak van Raalte and his wife of
prof. Joel Emanuel Goudsmit gave birth to Ferdinand Gerardus Goudsmit, the husband
of Adelaide Mary Lockhart and father of William Gordon Gerard who died in England
at the age of 49
1858(21st
of Cheshvan, 5619): Erev Shabbat, sixty-two-year-old Liebman Oppenheimer the husband
of Adelheid Loeb passed away today after which he was “buried in Waibstadt.
1860:
In McGregor, IA, the Clayton Chapter No 27 of the Masons was organized today
and its members included “Mr. B. Staruas,” the town’s first Jewish settler who
was joined in 1862 by Prussian born Louis Hirshfield who “established a large
clothing house” there.
1860:
Two days after he had passed away, London native Edward Salamon, the husband of
Henrietta Levien with whom he had seven children, was buried today at the
“Rockwood Cemetery, Rockwood, New South Wales, Australia
1860:
In McGregor, IA, the town’s first Jewish settler, “Mr. B. Strauss, a prosperous
and prominent citizen” “was one of the founders and a charter member of Clayton
Chapter No. 27” of the Masons which was “organized” today.
1861: Second Lieutenant Isaac B. Kauffman who would
die in 1862 of wounds sustained at Moore’s Hill, KY, began his service with
Company H of the 92nd Regiment of the Ninth Cavalry.
1862:
The New York Times reported that at Harper's Ferry Provost-Marshal Howe
has “seized a gang of counterfeiters and one hundred and thirty gallons of
whisky, and turned out fifty-eight Jew traders during the last week.”
1863: When the Superior Court heard the case of Richard
Escott vs. John J. Crane et al a civil suit involving an opera company and
whether it had performed at the level expected “a gentleman of the Hebrew
persuasion, experienced in music and old clothes, enlightened the jurors in
regard to the value of the wardrobe and voices of the members of the troupe,
all of which he pronounced to be second class. While Jews could be maligned as
“Chatham Street peddlers,” they also could be called as “expert witnesses” in
breach of contract litigation.
1863: “The New Jewish Orphan Asylum” published today
described the efforts to build a new Jewish Orphan Asylum in New York which
“has been constructed under the auspices of the Hebrew Benevolent Society, into
which the German Hebrew Benevolent Society was merged in 1859.” Construction of
the asylum, which is almost completed, began in August of 1862 and the
cornerstone was laid on September 30 of that year. The building is located on 77th
Street and can accommodate 200 orphans.
The fifty thousand dollars required to construct the asylum was raised
by the Building Committee whose membership included Messrs. M. Rossman, Philip
Frankenheimer, Samuel Hackes, Jacob Goldsmith, Henry Lewis, H.B. Herts, Jr.,
S.M. Cohen, M. Cooper, W. Heller and Seligman Adler. The pride felt by the
Jewish community can be seen when looks above the doorway and sees an arched
slab bearing the inscription, "Hebrew Orphan Asylum;" and in the
centers of each of the projecting gables is a Mogen David, or David's shield,
of double triangles, with the date "1862"
1863: During the Civil War, the 15th Kentucky
Cavalry that had been formed a year ago under the command Lt. Col. Gabriel
Netter, a Jewish supporter of the Union, was mustered out of service.
1864(29th of Tishrei, 5625): Sixty-three-year-old Simcha
Pinkser the orientalist who deciphered the Karaite Manuscripts belonging to
Abraham Firkowitz and who was the father
of Judah Leib Pinsker passed away today in Odessa, Russi
1865: In Philadelphia, the Independent Order of Free Sons
Israel organized the Ephraim Lodge – the third lodge formed in the City of
Brotherly Love this year – today.
1872: In Brussels, a meeting is scheduled to be held
today in local synagogue that will discuss ways of dealing with the plight of
the oppressed Jews of Romania. The
Israelite Alliance in Berlin had called for such a meeting which has attracted
delegated from Belgium, Great Britain, German, Holland, France and
Austria. Among those attending are Sir
Moses Montefiore and Adolphe Crémieux. Among the proposed solutions would be support
for wholesale immigration of Romanian Jews to “civilized countries.”
1873(8th of Cheshvan, 5634): Seventy-two-year-old
Justina Sebag Cohen, the Kensington born daughter of Rachel and Joseph Elias
Montefiore, the wife of Benjamin Barnet Cohen and “the mother of Lucy Benjamin
Cohen; Justina Rachel Behrens; Hannah Leonino; Lionel Benjamin Cohen; Nathaniel
Benjamin Cohen; and Rt. Honorable Arthur Joseph Cohen” passed away today in
Queens Garden, Londo after which buried at Buckingham Road in London
1874: “A protocol was signed between the United States
and the Sublime Porte allowing Americans to acquire legal title to land in
Palestine.”
1874: Birthdate of St. Louis native and American
Orientalist William Popper who earned his Ph.D. at Columbia under Dr. Richard
Gotthel and was the husband of Tess Magness, the sister of Dr. Judah L.
Magness.
1875(30th of Tishrei, 5636): Rosh Chodesh
Cheshvan
1875: In Philadelphia, PA, Sophie and Morris Moses
Pfaelzer gave birth Frank Pfaelzer, the husband of Baltimore born social
reformer Elsie Pfaelzer and the father of Maurice, Betty, Richard and Mildred
Pfaelzer.
1875(30th of Tishrei, 5636): Marks Abrams
passed away today after which he was buried in the Tree of Life Cemetery in
Sharpsburg, PA.
1875: It was reported that John Morrisey, the
anti-Tammany Hall candidate for the New York State Senate had addressed a crowd
of more than 400 people “at the head-quarters of the Hebrew Ant-Tammany Club of
the Fourth Senatorial District.” [In the
rough and tumble world of New York City politics, Jews could be found
supporting the Tammany Democratic Party Machine and opposing it. Some like Morrisey who was Irish, began as
Tammany supporters and then switched to other side. The important thing is that
Jews were involved in all aspects of the political process which is one of the
things that separates the American Jewish Experience from the earlier history
of the Wandering Jews.]
1879: In New York City, the Commissioners of Emigration
received a letter from the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society offering to
provide for the Curriak children, the offspring of Polish Jew who has already
arrived in the United States. While the
oldest boy is now with his father, the other children are so covered with sore
that the medical authorities at Castle Garden said it will take two months to
cure them. [This was one of the first public acts by the Hebrew Sheltering
Guardian Society which had been formed in September of 1879. The officers and workers were all Jewish
women; most of whom might be called Uptown Jews. The Society had been formed to protect the
poor Jewish children of the city, many of whose parents could not provide them
with the basics of life.]
1879: Birthdate Lev Davidovich who gained fame as Leon
Trotsky the Communist leader who turned his back on the Jewish people and
became the number two man in the Bolshevik Revolution. As the father of the Red Army, he saved the
Communists from defeat by invading armies as well as the Whites who supported
the Czar. Trostky would lose out in to
Stalin for the role as Lenin’s successor.
He would be forced to flee the Soviet Union ending up in Mexico where
Stalin would have him murdered in 1940.
1880: Birthdate of Soviet physicist Abram Ioffe.
1881: Birthdate of Vilna native Arthur Lyon Malkenson, who
in 1896 came to the United States in 1896 where he graduated from CCNY and
earned a laws degree from NYU after which he pursued a care in journalism which
led to him serving as “president and publisher of “The Jewish Morning Journal”
while raising a family of five children with his wife “Freda Friedkin
Malenson.”
1881: Justice Flammer is scheduled to hear more evidence in
the case of Mrs. Amelia Goldberg who claims that she is the wife of John A.
Goldberg. The destitute Mrs. Goldberg
was found wandering the streets. John Goldberg, a successful businessman from
England said he had been married to her but that he had received a divorce
decree from a rabbinic court in UK based on charges of adultery
1881: It was reported today that “no Conservative or
Anti-Semitic candidate received enough votes” in the first round of voting for
members of the Reichstag to advance to the second ballot. Herr Ernst “Henrici, the notorious
Jew-baiter, only received 800 votes out of a possible 40,000 votes.
1882: “Wished To Buy Heavenly Bliss” published today
recounts the case of Harris Udovitch and Louis Cohen, two Jews living in Troy,
NY. Udovitch has been jailed on charges
having struck Cohen’s wife during a dispute stemming from “Cohen’s refusal to
sell his credit with heaven to Udovitch for $150.” The term “credit with heaven” is normally
interpreted to mean “Good deeds that buy the future world.” There are some “ignorant orthodox Jews” who
believe they can “buy the benefits of another man’s good deeds.”
1883: It was reported today that in the last 17 months the
Board of Relief of the United Hebrew Charities have provided assistance to
12,000 individuals. The organization has
helped 1.047 settle in other parts of the United States at a cost of $8,247.26
and spent $3,413.13 to bury 450 individuals.
1883: “Cohen and Aaron” published today described recent
events in a London courtroom where Lewis Cohen convinced a judge to excuse him
from serving on a Coroner’s Jury because “he was a lineal descendant of the
original Aaron, the great high priest of the Jews. While the Judge offered no
explanation as to why he believed the claim, concern has been expressed that
Jews in England and the United States will invoke this claim as a way to avoid
all forms of public service.
1884: In Columbus, OH, Fred and Rose Lazarus gave
birth to Fred Lazarus Jr, the President of the Federated Department Store and
the husband of Meta Marx Lazarus. The grandson of a rabbi who began a small
retail establishment in pre-Civil War Cincinnati, Lazarus parlayed his family’s
commercial ventures into the retail giant known as Federated Department
Stores. The only Jew who had a greater
impact on the celebration of Christmas in the United States than Fred Lazarus,
Jr. would have been Jesus himself. During the Great Depression, he convinced
President Franklin Roosevelt that changing the Thanksgiving holiday from the
last Thursday of November to the fourth Thursday, extending the Christmas
shopping season, would be good for the nation's business. A 1941 Act of
Congress perpetuated the arrangement. No other Jew besides Jesus may have had
as big an impact on the celebration of Christmas as did Lazarus may have had
the biggest impact on the Christmas This
American merchandiser and philanthropist passed away in May, 1973.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Fred-Lazarus-Jr
1884:
In Sioux City, IA, the lot in Coal’s Addition which Godfrey Hatenbach had donated
for a cemetery in 1869 ceased to be used for that purpose today.
1885:
The annual meeting of the United Hebrew Charities of the City of New York took
place tonight at 58 St. Mark’s Place.
1886:
It was reported today that Henry George, the social reformer and author of a
“single tax plan” delivered a lecture on “Moses” to a group of Jewish
supporters.
1888:
The meeting of the United Hebrew Charities of New York was held at Temple
Emanu-El tonight.
1888:
In Chicago, Bernatt and Elda “Ida” Newmann Edelman gave birth 1909 Illinois
College of Law Graduate and Municipal Court Judge Leon Edelman, the husband of
Sarah Kramer Edelman and father of Lila, Isabel and Alvin Edelman.
1888:
“The Glory of the Jew” published today described a lecture by Rabbi Leon
Harrison at Temple Israel where his subject was “Is It A Misfortune to be a
Jew?” --- which he answers in the negative since “according to Disraeli” the
Jew is “the true conqueror of the world.”
1889:
“A Splendid Exhibit” published today included a summary of the work of the
United Hebrew Charities which showed “that the Hebrews of New York take
commendable care of their worthy poor from the cradle to the grave.”
1889:
George B. Herzig presided over a meeting of the Alumni Association of Ahavath
Chesed, located at 55th Street and Lexington Avenue.
1889:
Sir Julian Goldsmid, the prominent Anglo-Jewish leader, was the center of
attention at a dinner held in his honor at Delmonico’s in New York City.
1889:
“The Broadway Theatre” published today provided a review of new production of
“The Merchant of Venice” starring Edwin Booth as Shylock. “Booth’s Shylock is a well-known performance
of the character and the best that this generation has seen or is likely to
seek.” Shylock’s most famous scene centers around his encounter with Venetians
and “here Booth depicts the conflicting passions of the Jew with greater force
and mare variety of expression…than any other actor of our time.”
1890:
It was reported today that given the “anti-Semtic feeling of the government and
the public the existing regulations” aimed at the Jews “will be applied with
the utmost vigor” while the nation awaits further anti-Semitic laws.
1890:
In Belarus, Sara Clara Kugel and Ben Zion Hershon gave birth to Lincoln
Memorial University graduate HUC and Jewish Institute of Religion trained Rabbi
Ralph B. Herson, the husband of Grace Liberman while serving as the leader of
Temple Beth El in Asbury Park, NJ delivered the opening prayer at the U.S.
House of Representatives in 1932.
1891:
At Temple Beth-El in New York, President Henry Rice, who is also Chairman of
the Executive Committee, presided over the seventeenth annual meeting of the
United Hebrew Charities which opened with him reading “the reports showing the
work of the various departments of relief in 1891.”
1891:
As of today, the Russian Refugee Fund has grown from $28,000 to $58,000 of
which $5,000 has been spent on bringing needy Russian Jews to the United States
for whom the United Hebrew Charities has secured jobs.
1891:
Hungarian Jewish immigrant Rose Stern and New York saloon owner Charles Borach gave
birth to their third child Fania Borach who gained fame as “Fanny Brice.” In
1908, she dropped out of school to work in a burlesque review. She is best
known for her association with Florenz Ziegfeld, and headlined his Ziegfield
Follies starting in 1910 and continuing into the 1930s. During the late 1930s,
she had her own radio show which featured her as a bratty toddler known as
"Baby Snooks". The
multitalented entertainer passed away in May of 1951.
1892:
Birthdate of Keithsburg, IL native and University of Michigan trained attorney
Samuel Lambert Adelsdorf, who saw service along the Mexican border and during
WWI.
1892:
Abram L. Levy of the Hebrew World was elected vice president of Metropolitan
Press Club which was formed by 14 young editors who gathered for the first time
at parlor 22 of the New York Hotel.
1892:
In Odessa, “Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich, better known under his pen name
Sholem Aleichem” and his wife, the former Olga Loyeva gave birth to Marusi
Solomonovna Rabinovich who gained famed as Marie Waife the wife of Benjamin
Waife who wrote under the pen name Ben-Zion Goldberg with whom she had two sons
Sholom and Mitchell and who is best known as the author of My Father, Sholem
Aleichem.
1892
Birthdate of author Abraham Bernard Levy, the son of tailor from Hull (UK)
whose works included In Search of East End, The Sephardim: A problem of survival? and
Friday night: A Jewish Chronicle anthology co-authored by William
Frankel.
1892(8th
of Cheshvan, 5653): Sixty-nine-year-old “Austrian historian” Gerson Wolf passed
away today in Vienna.
1893:
“The First Woman Rabbi” published today provided a portrait of Miss Rachel or
Miss Ray Frank, the California native who is studying at Hebrew Union College
who plans on “becoming the first woman rabbi in the world.”
1893:
“Biblical Romance” published today provides a brief review of The Son of A
Prophet in which George Anson Jackson develops a story that revolves around
Eleazar Ben Shammah which portrays love as it was displayed “in the age of
Solomon.”
1893:
“A Memorial For Rebecca Gratz” published today described $100,000 bequest from
the late Hyman Gratz to Congregation Mikve Israel in Philadelphia that is to be
used “for the establishment and support for a college” to be operated by the
Sephardic congregation in memory of his sister Rebecca Gratz.
1893:
It was reported today that Charles Frohman, the Jewish impresario, has canceled
any further performances of “The Younger Son” which opened last week.
1893:
In San Francisco, “Rosalie Meyer and Sigmund Stern,” “the president of Levi
Strauss and Co. and nephew of Levi Strauss gave birth Elsie Stern who became
Elsie Haas, when she “married Walter Abraham Strauss, the President of Levi
Strauss and Co. with whom she “had three children – Walter A. Jr, Peter and
Wanda.
https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf0779n4k2/entire_text/
1893:
Richard Mansfield’s portrayal of Shylock in the Merchant of Venice appearing at
Hermman’s in New York is described by reviewers as “one of his most artistic
efforts” and “assuredly” one of his most “popular.” (The role of Shylock became one of
Mansfield’s signature Shakesperian character portrayals.)
1894:
The anti-Semitic newspaper La Libre Parole appeared with the headline:
“Arrest of the Jewish Officer A. Dreyfus.
The editor of the paper, Edouard Drumont, would fill subsequent editions
of the paper with lurid “facts” detailing the “confirmed evidence against the
Jewish traitor.”
1894:
Rabbi Kaufmann Kohler opened tonight’s meeting of the United Hebrew Charities
with a prayer followed by an address by Henry Rice, the president of the
organization which was celebrating its 20th anniversary. The high
point of the evening was an address by Seth Low, the President of Columbia who
would eventually be elected Mayor of New York City.
1894:
The first “open meeting” of the Monte Relief Society, an organization designed
to aid poor Jews was held tonight at the Terrace Garden.
1894:
In Manhattan, Anna and Louis Perlman who gained famed a vaudevillian and radio
performer Jack Pearl, the husband of Winifred Pearl. (One source erroneously
shows his birthdate as 1895)
1894:
Major Mercier du Paty de Clam showed “the entire text of the bordereau to
Dreyfus, and then he made him copy it” which the accused to deny that the
document was a product of his handwriting.”
1895:
Birthdate of Paris native Camille Espire, “a French
national who lived in Mayfair and served in the RAF during WW II as a Special
Operations Executive”
https://imagesoflincolnshire.co.uk/Mayfair_to_North_Coates.html
1896(22nd
of Cheshvan, 5657): Twenty-year-old Abraham L. Fox who like his mother
Ernestine Fox suffered from consumption passed away today at his home on
Madison Avenue in Manhattan.
1897:
In New York City, Wolf and Sarah (Budoff) Sonkin gave birth to CCNY trained
engineer David Sonkin , the radio engineering student of Dr. Alfred N.
Goldsmith who began his career in the research department of the Marconi
Wireless Company and was the “co-author of “How to Build a Fada Neutrodyne
Receiver.”
1898:
The Zionist Delegation sets out for Jerusalem.
1898:
“More Help For Dreyfus” published described the public response to Alphonse
Bard’s “report to the Court of Cassation” with some saying the report “clearly
set forth the truth and proved the innocence of Dreyfus” while others insist
that the report was merely a pleading in favor of the prisoner.”
1898:
“Outside a small Rothschild funded Jewish agricultural settlement, Herzl
publicly awaited the Kaiser on his way to Jerusalem. The Kaiser’s and his
cortege stopped to speak briefly with Herzl. It was the first public
acknowledgement of Herzl as the leader of the world Zionist movement by a major
European power.”
1899: In Baltimore, MD, founding of “Western
Ahavath Achim Verein, which “furnishes free medical treatment to members and
their families” while having “lectures on Jewish topics at every meeting.”
1900: Today, at the Speedway, nobody wanted to
race against Alves, the famous trotter owned by Nathan Straus.
1901: It was reported today the United Hebrew
of Charities had served 6,521 new applicants for charity, had provided 2,000
tons of coal, and helped over five thousand people to find jobs.
1902: Herzl's health deteriorates. After the
Annual Conference, Herzl finds himself in a state of collapse, incapable of
writing a single line. He reports himself sick to the office of the Neue Freie Presse and goes for a rest
cure to Edlach a little village at the foot of the Rax Alpes, south of Vienna.
1903: Birthdate of Alexander Steiner the
Hungarian Jewish grain merchant who was the husband of Klara Fejer and the
father of Agnes Leah Steiner who survived the Holocaust and made Aliyah in
1949.
1903: Three one-act plays by Arthur Schnitzler
– “the Last Masks,” “At the Sign of the Green Parrot” and “Literature” – were
performed tonight at the German theatre in Irving Place (NYC).
1903(8th of Cheshvan, 5664): Hillel Noah
Maggid, “a Russian-Jewish genealogist and historian who was the author of a
biography of David Oppenheim, the rabbi of Prague,” passed away today.
1904(20th of Cheshvan, 5665):
Parashat Vayera
1904: “Haggard’s New Book” published today
provided a brief review of The Brethren by Rider Haggard who had written it
after traveling to Palestine, a long which “has become the scene of some of the
bloodies battles that the world has ever known.”
1905: A day after the Czar issued “the famous
manifesto proclaiming freed of speech, press and person: a “pogrom or slaughter
of Jews broke out more than 200 places in Russia” including Odessa.
1905: At the New Synagogue in London, Jack
Arbeid, the Whitechapel born son of Solomon / Salomon Philip Arbeid and Fanny /
Femmie Arbeid married Phoebe Nathan after the death of his first wife Rose in
1903.
1905: Birthdate Jersey
City, NJ native and St. Johns trained attorney Henry Jacob Lilienfeld, who
served as a “foreign service officer” and worked “with the New York City
Welfare Department”
1906: In St. Louis, Rose and Benjamin Agruss
gave birth Washington University and University of Chicago trained research
chemist Meyer Agruss, the husband of Frances Spector.
1906: Tonight, “the Jews of Washington” are
scheduled to hold “a monster birthday banquet” in honor of Simon Wolf who
turned seventy yesterday during which the “thousands” of attendees will be able
to see a yearbook prepared by Mrs. Frederick Gotthold, the artist who is Mr.
Wolf’s daughter which includes autographed tributes from President Theodore
Roosevelt and former President Grover Cleveland.
1906: In Lüdenscheid, Germany Hermann Süskind
and Frieda Kessler gave birth to Walter Süskind, “a German Jew of Dutch parents
who helped about 600 Jewish children escape the Holocaust.”
http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/survivor/suskind.html
1906: The Central Conference of
American Rabbis paid Max Rosenthal $25 for “the title page of the Haggadah” and
paid $125 to Katherine M. Cohen “for ten illustrations for the Haggadah.”.
1907: It was reported today
that Barbara Lapoukhine who is England “completing her education with her
governess” is missing and feared kidnapped by supporters of the Black Hundreds
as some form of retaliation against her father “a high police official attached
to the Russian Ministry of the Interior who has “played notable and very
honorable part in exposing the machinery by which the pogroms against the Jews
have been organized and has “done much to make pogroms on a large sale a risky
enterprise for a Russian minister to undertake.
1908: It was reported today
that Cyrus Sulzberger “will assume the active general directions” the Unite
Hebrew Charities” at once in light of Henry Rice’s announcement that after
thirty-four years he is stepping down as the organizations president.
1908: Birthdate of Sara Katz
1909: Alliance Israelite Universelle makes
representation to the French legislation over the hardships suffered by the
Jews of Fez.
1910: “In St. John’ Wood, in north west
London,” Reine Citroën, a member of a Dutch-Jewish family who founded the
Citroën car company in France” and “Jules Ayer, a Swiss Calvinist financier who
worked for the Rothschild family gave birth to philosopher and author “Sir
Alfred Jules ‘Freddie’ Ayer also known as A.J. Ayer.”
1910: Ten men and two women established Degania
Alef, the first Kibbutz on the shore of the Lake Kinneret (Sea of Galilee).
1911:
Joseph Pulitzer passes away. The life of this Hungarian born Jew who served in
the Union Cavalry during the Civil War, reminds one of a colorful novel more
than the life of an American newspaperman who built what we would call today a
media empire. After his death in
Charleston, SC, his estate funded the Pulitzer Prizes which honor excellence in
journalism and other field of culture and art.
1912: Oscar Straus who is running for governor of
New York on the Bull Moose Ticket (the party of Teddy Roosevelt) announced that
he will spend the last four days campaigning on New York’s East Side and
Brooklyn.
1912:
In Rotterdam, “Luis Fuld, a merchant in occasional goods” and his wife gave
birth to Yiddish songster Lazarus “Leo” Fuld.
http://www.hipporecords.nl/fuld.htm
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/jul/26/worldmusic1
1913: Birthdate of Oliver Louis Zangwill, an
influential British neuropsychologist who was elected a Fellow of the Royal
Society in 1977.
1914: In Bucharest, “Mihail Schapira a
successful businessman and financial advisor to King Carol II of Romania and
“his Viennese wife, Marianne Strate-Felber” gave birth to Ileana Schapira who
gained fame as “Ileana Sonnabend…one of the most formidable contemporary art
dealers of her time.” (As reported by Roberta Smith)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/24/arts/24sonnabend.html?pagewanted=all
1914: “Austria Feeling War’s Disasters”
published today described the reverses suffered by the Austro-Hungarians which,
among other things, has resulted a wave of refugees arriving in Vienna
including a large contingent of Jews from Galicia which “further complicates
the life of the city.”
1914: “Addressing the members of the United
Charities at their annual at Temple EmanupEl tonight, Jacob H. Schiff asserted
that thousands and thousands of Jews in New York were ‘dodging’ their duty’
toward the poor and suffering in this city while contributing liberally to
funds for the relief of war sufferers in Europe.”
1915: Birthdate of
Dr. William Berenberg,
an American physician, Harvard professor, and pioneer in the treatment and
rehabilitation of and cerebral palsy. He
was a member of the Board Of Advisors of New England Sinai Hospital Center when
he passed away in 1995.
1915: “Jews’ Problem Now Bitter” published
today concluded with Rabbi De Sola Pool’s conclusion that “the war has
intensified conditions among the Jews in Europe. Such conditions are bound to exist as long as
the Jews are in a minority, refusing to be assimilated. War has made the Jewish
problem more bitter.”
1915: Jacob H. Schiff, he longtime President of
the Young Men’s Hebrew Association was quoted today as having said “We Jews
have to choose whether we want to be Jewish-American or American Jews; and God
forbid that we permit a hyphen to be placed between and America. God forbid that it be said that the Jews form
a group by themselves. We want to be
united as Jews but by our religion only.”
1916(2nd of Cheshvan, 5677): Sixty-six-year-old
Maurice Ephrussi the French banker and Thoroughbred breeder passed away today.
1916: “The Joint Distribution Committee of the
various Jewish relief funds has received to date more than $6,055,000.”
1916: Among the contributions received by the
Central Committee for the Relief of Jews Suffering Through the War were $39
from Rabbi J.N. Rosenberg, $150 from the Canada Jewish Alliance and $122 from
Congregation Ohav Shalom in Williamsport, PA.
1916: Today, German Minister of War Adolf Wild
von Hohenborn who promulgated the “Judenzählung” or Jew Census which was
“designed to confirm accusations of the lack of patriotism among German Jews”
but which disproved the charges so it the results were never made public
completed his service as Minister of War.
1916: It was reported today that as soon as Dr.
Judah Magnes returns from Europe, a mass meeting will be held at Carnegie Hall
where he will deliver an eyewitness account of the suffering of the Jews in the
war zones and a campaign to raise ten million dollars to relieve their
suffering will be started.
1916: In “Dernburg Tells Germany U.S. Is
Changing” published today Dr. Bernhard Dernburg who was raised as a Lutheran
since his father had converted from Judaism described the growing gulf between
his country and the United States including the belief uttered by former
President Teddy Roosevelt that in 1910 he had been in Berlin where “he had been
allowed by the German General Staff to see plans for an attack on the United
States.”
1917: It was reported today that the Jewish
Board for Welfare Work in the United States Army, chaired by Colonel Harry
Cutler and located at 31 Union Square West in New York City” is waging “an
aggressive campaign” to raise one million dollars to help meet the welfare of
troops serving at home and abroad.
1917: It was reported today that at a meeting
of Jewish leaders being held at the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue “a
resolution was passed pledging to President Wilson the undivided support of the
Jewish communities…
1917: Paolo Boselli, who had told Nahum Sokolow
that his “government was prepared to favor Zionist aims in Palestine” completed
his term the 22nd Premier of Italy.
1918(23rd of Cheshvan, 5679): Twelve days
before the end of World War I, Lt. Henry Brown of Detroit, Michigan “who was
repeatedly cited for bravery” while under fire died today in France.
1918: Birthdate of Bernard Gordon, an American
writer and producer who was a victim of Hollywood’s blacklist.
1918(23rd of Cheshvan, 5679:
Eighty-one-year-old Czech native Henry Arnstein the husband of Eva Arnstein
whom he married in 1852 and with whom he had three children one of whom died in
infancy passed away in Augusta, KS after which he was buried at the Temple Emanuel
Cemetery in Wichita, KS.
1918: “In the House of Commons, Mr. Bonar Law,
in answer to a question by Major Gly declares that no final statement in regard
to the future Government administration of Syria and Palestine can be made now”
and that “the settlement of the future of these territories rest with the Peace
Conference.”
1919: Birthdate of Dorothy Dorfman, eldest
daughter of Vera and Nathan Dorfman, a proud graduate of the University of
Chicago who become Deborah Levin, wife of Joseph Levin
1919: In Chicago, Morton David Cahn, the “son
of Joseph and Miriam Cahn” and his wife “Julia Elizabeth Cahn” gave birth to
Julius Hofeller Cahn
1920: Premiere of “The Golem: How He Came Into
the World” a silent movie filmed by cinematographer Karl Freund that “begins
with Rabbi Loew” in the Jewish ghetto of Prague.
1920: It was reported today that Rabbi Israel
J. Sarasohn, a native of Worcester, Massachusetts and graduate of Clarke
University who served as a chaplain during the World War and has been leading a
congregation in Augusta, GA, has been retained to lead a congregation in
Cumberland, MD.
1920: Birthdate of “Dr. Baruj Benacerraf, an
immunologist who received a Nobel Prize for his groundbreaking work in
exploring why diseases like multiple sclerosis affect some people but not
others…” Born in Caracas, Venezuela, he
was the son of Sephardic Jews. His father, born in Morocco, was a textile
importer; his mother, born in Algeria, was a homemaker. (As reported by Denise
Gellene)
1921: In Brooklyn, The Day Nursery which had
been organized in 1916 under the name of “the Daughters of Zion Hebrew Day
Nursery” was incorporated today, after which, in November, “Elias B. Desatnek
assumed the presidency of the institution…”
1922: Isa Kremer made her United States debut
at Carnegie Hall in NYC.
1923: “The Ancient Law” a silent film directed
by E.A. Dupont was released today in Germany.
1923: In Vienna, Samuel Djerassi, a
dermatologist and specialist in sexually transmitted diseases and Alice
Friedmann, a Viennese dentist and physician” gave birth to “Carl Djerassi an
Austrian-born Bulgarian-American chemist, novelist, and playwright best known
for his contribution to the development of oral contraceptive pills.”
1924: Liberal MP Edward Lessing lost his seat
in the General Election held today in the United Kingdom.
1925: In Poland, “Issachar Feiner, a chocolate
salesman, and Rivka Herzberg, a housewife” gave birth to Haim Feiner who would
gain fame Israeli songwriter, poet and author Haim Hefer.
1925:
Birthdate of Klaus Roth German-born British mathematician who was awarded the Fields
Medal in 1958. His major work has been in number theory, particularly the
analytic theory of numbers. He solved the famous Thue-Siegel problem (1955)
concerning the approximation to algebraic numbers by rational numbers (for
which he won the medal). Roth also proved in 1952 that a sequence with no three
numbers in arithmetic progression has zero density (a conjecture of Erdös and
Turán of 1935).
1926:
Birthdate of New York native and holder of degrees from Queens College, CUNY
and Stanford Jean Estelle Hirsh who gained fame as Professor of Mathematics at
Purdue Jean E. Rubin the author of three books “on the axiom of choice” and
“two more on more general topics in set theory and mathematical logic” while
raising a son, mathematician and aerospace engineer Arthur Rubin, with her
husband and co-author statistician Herman Rubin.
https://resources.illc.uva.nl/LogicList/newsitem.php?id=351
1926:
Dr. Chaim Weismann, President of the World Zionist Organization arrived in New
York tonight from England on the Cunard line Berengaria. His was on a mission
to gain support from American Jews for the creation of a Jewish Home in
Palestine.
1927:
“The Forbidden Woman,” a silent film directed by Paul Stein was released today
in the United States.
1927:
Middleweight Seymour “Cy” Schindel fought his 14th bout in Brooklyn
which he won.
1927:
“The Famous Woman” directed by Paule Stein, starring Jetta Goudal and featuring
Joseph Schildraut was released in Germany today.
1927:
A national conference on Palestine led by Nathan Straus is scheduled to begin
today in Cleveland, OH.
1927(3rd
of Cheshvan, 5688): Bertha Schwimmer, the widow of Max Schwimmer and the mother
of pacifist leader Rosika Schwimmer passed away today.
1927(3rd
of Cheshvan, 5688): Forty-five-year-old German mathematician and philosopher
who was a co-founder of The Internationaler Sozialistischer Kampfbund
("International Socialist Militant League") passed away today.
1928:
Birthdate of Sherwin H. Raiken, the right-handed guard for Villanova and the
New York Knicks.
https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/r/raikesh01.html
1928:
Lord Melchett, who was a Jewish businessman named Alfred Moritz Mond appeared
on the cover of today’s Time magazine.
1929:
Major Alan Saunders, the man who had served as acting commandant of police at
the times of riots spent six hours on the witness stand answering question
before the British Commission of Inquiry investigating the riots at the Western
Wall. He was questioned about the lack
of preparation by the police and the decision to disarm British-Jewish
constables in the face of threatening behavior by the Arab population.
1929: On "Black Tuesday," the New York
Stock Market crashed, triggering the "Great Depression." Like millions of their countrymen, the Jews
suffered great financial hardships. Many
newly arrived immigrants who were just beginning to make progress up the
economic ladder found themselves on relief.
As the economy soured, social unrest increased and there was a rise in
various forms of anti-Semitism. The
coming of the New Deal would prove a boon to many Jews. Besides providing relief through a variety of
federal programs, the New Deal opened up career opportunities for many newly
educated first-generation American Jews.
For example, many young lawyers and accountants who found themselves
locked out of the Christian only banks and law firms got their first jobs and
gained valuable career experience working for the myriad of new federal
agencies. These men (yes most of them
were men) went to become part of a core of dedicated civil servants who really
served the public good.
1929:
Jewish financier Felix Warburg and Lord Melchett, each donated five hundred
thousand dollars to start a financial concern aimed at helping development in
Palestine.
1929:
Based on a later conversation Will Rogers credited Bernard Baruch with “saving
his life” because he had followed the financiers advice and “exited the market
before the craush.c
1930:
At the Budapest University, after a lecture at the Anatomical Institute today
attended by legal and medical students who “suddenly attacked and severely
thrashed fellow Jewish students.
1930:
“Dr. Judah L. Magnes, Chancellor of the Hebrew University, today denied
published statements that he had expressed satisfaction at the recent Passfield
declaration of policy for Palestine.”
1931:
It was announced today that-The 1931 Nobel Prize in Medicine has been awarded
to Professor Otto Warburg the grandson of Orthodox Jews and the son of Emil
Warburg who converted to Christian of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology
in Berlin for his researches in connection with enzymes.
1931:
Mrs. Lina Straws, wife of Nathan Straus at the time of her death on May 4,
1930, left an estate appraised today at $2,192,772 gross and $2,147,914 net.
1932:
Birthdate of Charlotte Knoblock, president of Germany’s Jewish community and
one of only about 100 surviving Munich residents who returned to the city after
World War II.
1932:
In a letter to Louis Strauss, President Herbert Hoover reaffirms support for
the Balfour Declaration on the 15th anniversary of the issuance of
this seminal document in Jewish History.
On the occasion of your
celebration of the 15th Anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, which received
the unanimous approval of both Houses of Congress by the adoption of the
Lodge-Fish resolution in 1922, I wish to express the hope that the ideal of the
establishment of the National Jewish Home in Palestine, as embodied in that
Declaration, will continue to prosper for the good of all the people inhabiting
the Holy Land. I have watched with genuine admiration the steady and
unmistakable Progress made in the rehabilitation of Palestine which, desolate
for centuries, is now renewing its youth and vitality through the enthusiasm,
hard work and self-sacrifice of the Jewish pioneers who toil there in a spirit
of peace and social justice. It is very gratifying to note that many American
Jews, Zionists as well as non-Zionists, have rendered such splendid service to
this cause which merits the sympathy and moral encouragement of everyone.
1933: Funeral services are scheduled to today for at JTS for “Dr, Jacob Hoschander,
Professor of Biblical Literature at the Jewish. Theological Seminary and widely
known authority on biblical archaeology and Assyriology who was the author of The
Book of Eshter in the Light of History.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/hoschander-jacob
Dr. Jacob
Hoschander Dies - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
https://www.amazon.com/Book-Esther-Light-History/dp/B01MXFXS9O
1933:
Jerusalem today became the scene of the bloodshed that has been going on in
Palestine since Friday in connection with Arab protests against Jewish
immigration, three Arabs being killed and about seventy wounded, fifteen of
them seriously, in clashes with the police.
1933:
Forty-five Jewish organizations from both sides of the Atlantic were
represented today at the beginning of a four-day conference on the relief of
German Jews in London.
1934:
Today, Harry Mizler, the Jewish born boxer from London’s East End, lost the
Lightweight Title “to the vastly more experienced Jewish boxer Jack Kid Berg
when his seconds threw in the towel at the end of the tenth of a scheduled
fifteen round bout.”
1935:
“Rudolf Selz, a British Jew held” in Munich “on a charge of ‘radical
defilement’ was released today from Neudeck prison to comply with repeated
protests from the British Embassy against what is regarded as discrimination
between two different types of British subjects.”
1935:
In a talk tonight at an auxiliary organization of Mount Neboh Congregation
Rabbi Abraham L. Feinberg said that “organized Jewry ought not to press the
protest over the Olympic Games any further because if the if the indignation of
the rest of world has not been aroused it never will be.”
1936:”Ladies
in Love,” a romantic comedy featuring Simone Simon, Paul Lukas and J. Edward
Bromberg was released in the United States today.
1936(13th
of Cheshvan, 5697): Eighty-one-year-old “Joseph Proskauer, the Richmond born
son of John and Adelaide Proskauer, the
husband of Bertha Richman Proskauer, and brother-in-law of educator Julia
Richman who was the president of William C. Popper and Co. a printing and
lithographing firm passed away today in New York.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1936/10/30/88709206.pdf
1936:
Geoffrey Lloyd, Under-Secretary in the Home Office told the House of Commons
today that “Fascist anti-Jewish disorders in London’s East End are decreasing.”
1936:
“The Palestine Foundation Fund spent $28,405,00o for Jewish colonization and
reconstruction activities from June, 1920 to June, 1936 according to a report
submitted” tonight “at the annual meeting of the American Palestine Campaign in
the Hotel Astor” “read by Louis Lipsky, chairman of the board of the directors
who is also a national chairman of the United Palestine Appeal.
1937:
The Palestine Post reported that the
High Commissioner, General Sir Arthur Wauchope, announced his wish to retire
from office.
1937:
The Times of London claimed that the
present Arab disturbances were inspired by secret societies in Syria. The
newspaper endorsed the appeal of the former Prime Minister, David Lloyd George,
who asked Britain to carry on the good work of historic justice in Palestine
and to keep the Mandate.
1937:
Two Arab gun men fired on Jewish drainage workers who had been working at
Herod’s Gate and were getting on a truck to go home. One Jew was seriously wounded by the gunman
who had climbed on to the truck.
1937:
“Live, Love and Learn,” a comedy produced by Harry Rapf with a script by
Richard Maibaum was released in the United States today.
1937:
“Ali Baba Goes to Town” starring comedian Eddie Cantor was released in the
United States today.
1937
(24th of Cheshvan, 5698): Erev Shabbat, Aaron Alkabat, a 32 year old Jew from
Morocco was shot to death and two other Jews were seriously wounded this
evening when they were fired on as they returned from praying at the Western
Wall.
1938:
Seven days after he had passed away, funeral services are scheduled to held at
Temple Emanu-El seventy-year-old Edward M. Hart, the former Manhattan
“wholesale clothing merchant” and current President of the Yonkers (NY) Civil
Service Commission and former secretary and president of Temple Emanu-El.
1938:
“Gehenna, a melodrama” directed by Michał Waszyński who converted to Roman
Catholicism and written by Anatol Stern was released today in Poland.
1938:
“You Can't Take It with You,” a comedic play in three acts by George S. Kaufman
and Moss Hart which had premiered at the Booth Theatre in 1936 was performed
for the last time at the Imperial Theatre before continuing its Broadway run at
the Ambassador Theatre.
1938:
Passports of Polish citizens “not revalidated by today would no longer entitle
the bearers to return to Poland”; a fact which the German government had used
as an for arresting Polish Jews living in Germany two days before so they could
be expelled from the Reich.
1939:
Birthdate of Australian barrister Aaron Ronald “Ron Castan” whose human rights
advocacy resulted in the creation of The Castan Centre for Human Rights Law at
Monash University which named in honor of Sir John Monash the Jewish engineer
who was the country’s leading soldier in WW I.
1939: Birthdate of Ralph Bakshi. Born in Haifa, Bakshi is a
director of animation and occasionally live-action films. As the American
animation industry fell into decline during the 1960’s and 1970’s Bakshi tried
to bring change to the industry by creating and directing a number of animated
feature films that were aimed at adults instead of children. His most famous
effort centered Fritz the Cat, the first animated feature film to get an X-
Rating. Bakshi is also reported to be
the inspiration for the Comic Book Guy, a character in the weekly cartoon
program, The Simpsons.
1940: “Syria Dismissing Jews” published today reported that
following Vichy’s introduction of anti-Jewish laws last week, French
authorities in Beirut “have dismissed over twenty Jews who were employed in
state posts…”
1940:
In a letter dated today, “Iranian diplomat Abdol Hossein Sardi” “tried to
convince Vichy officials, whose laws were binding in occupied France that the
Jugutis “were assimilated to non-Jewish Persians by culture and intermarriage
and should not be considered Jews under Vichy law.”
1941(8th
of Cheshvan, 5702): The SS and Lithuanian police carried out the brutal
massacre of those Kovno Jews who were not "selected" the prior day
for work. In groups of a hundred, Jews were stripped naked, marched to the edge
of ditches, and then fired upon. Most were killed instantly. Many were left to
die slowly of their wounds. Einsatskommando reported the killing of 2,008 men,
2,920 women and 4,257 children.
1941(8th
of Cheshvan, 5702: Yiddish newspaperman Dovid Levin, the Lithuanian born
son of the Zhidik rabbi Shloyme Levinberg was murder today “in the Great Aktion
of the Slobodka ghetto.”
http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2017/05/dovid-levin.html
1941:
“Let’s Face It” a musical with a by Herbert and Dorothy Fields starring Danny
Kaye opened on Broadway today at the Imperial Theatre.
1942(18th of Cheshvan, 5703: Eliyahu Rozanski of
the Jewish Fighting Organization assassinates Jakub Lejkin, the new commander
of the Jewish police in the Warsaw ghetto. Soon after an additional 13 Jewish
police who were very involved with the Warsaw actions of the summer were also
killed. The Jewish resistance movements
and many others in the ghettos viewed the ghetto police as loathsome
collaborators. From their point of view,
the police were doing the work of the Nazis.
They were herding others off to the death camps in a deluded belief that
somehow they and their loved ones could avoid the same fate. While the idea of one Jew killing another Jew
may seem troublesome from the distance of six decades, those who were not there
have no right to judge those who were in hell we cannot even begin to imagine.
1942: Written comments by Winston Churchill
excoriating Germany for the systematic extermination of European Jews are read
at a London protest meeting chaired by the archbishop of Canterbury.
1942(18th of Cheshvan, 5703: The Nazis murdered
3230 thousand Jews from Sandomierz, Poland at the Belzec extermination camp.
1942(18th of Cheshvan, 5703: The Nazis killed
16,000 Jews in Pinsk, Russia.
1942:
Leading clergymen, including the Archbishop of Canterbury, and political
figures held a public meeting to register outrage over Nazi Germany's
persecution of Jews. This expression of
outrage did not include a meaningful demand that the British government lift
the ban on Jewish immigration to Eretz Israel.
This would have meant that Jews who escaped from Nazi control would have
a place of refuge.
1943:
“Flesh and Fantasy” a cinematic trilogy starring Edward G. Robinson and music
by Alexandre Tansman was released today in the United States.
1944:
The Big Red One, the U.S. Army’s fabled First Infantry Division, took an added
distinction. One of its GI’s, Private
Max Fuchs who had been fighting since he hit the beaches of Normandy on D-Day,
served as the volunteer cantor for a brief service held at Aachen,
Germany. The service which was broadcast
live by NBC radio, was billed as the first public Jewish service to be held on
German soil since the rise of Hitler. Captain Sydney Lefkowitz, a Chaplain who
had also been fighting since landing on Omaha Bulge, served as the Rabbi.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/18/nyregion/18cantor.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOTLSInghSM&feature=fvw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCn0ZKanKFk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPgtn7WT92o
1944:
Agnes Steiner, who had been living in “a Jewish safe house in Budapest was sent
by her grandfather to live at the Red Cross Children’s home in Buda on Orso
Utca because he feared for her safety.
1944(12th
of Cheshvan, 5705): Fifty-five-year-old German actor and movie star Otto
Wallburg “who was wounded on the Eastern Front after winning an Iron Cross”
whose attempts to escape the Nazis were thwarted was murdered today at
Auschwitz.
1945:
The first ballpoint pen went on sale at that Jewish emporium, New York’s
Gimbels Department Store.
1945:
Anna Rosenberg became the first woman to receive the Medal of Freedom, the
highest civilian award offered by the United States. In 1947 she would be the first
woman to be awarded the United States Medal for Merit. In 1950 she was
appointed Assistant Secretary of Defense, the highest position ever held up
until that time by a woman in the United States military establishment. Her
main task as Assistant Secretary of Defense was to coordinate the Defense
Department's manpower, which had been divided among many different agencies. In
the 1930s Rosenberg served in the New Deal administration as a regional
director for the National Recovery Administration (1935) and on the Social
Security Board (1936-1943), becoming a trusted advisor to both Franklin
Roosevelt and Harry Truman. She also advised and coordinated several Democratic
congressional campaigns. Before being appointed Assistant Secretary of Defense,
she was President Roosevelt's personal assistant in Europe. She has been
acclaimed for her talents as a labor mediator, diplomat, adviser,
troubleshooter, and administrator. She was also involved in many Jewish causes,
including serving as the director of the Women's Division of the Joint
Distribution Committee and the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies. (Jewish
Women’s Archives)
1946:
“Jameal el Husseini, acting head of the Arab Executive Committee of
Palestine…denied reports that the committee intended to demand that King Ibn
Saud…cancel American oil rights in his kingdom as a result of President
Truman’s reiterated support for substantial Jewish immigration to Palestine”
1946:
Decorated veteran of WWII, Korea and Viet Nam, Melvin Garten, the holder of a
Distinguished Service Cross Melvin Garten gave birth to Dartmouth and Yale
educated “economist, author and businessman” Dr. Jeffrey E. Gaten the husband
of Ina Rosenberg, the Emmy Award winning host of “Food Network’s Barefoot
Contessa” who served with the 82nd Airborne during Viet Nam, wrote
“six books on the global political economy while serving as the Dean of the
Yale School of Management.
1946:
British authorities held “Zionist extremists” responsible for destruction of an
Army jeep that was blown up by an electrically detonated land mine in the Plain
of Sharon north of Tel Aviv. Two soldiers were wounded as a result of the
attack.
1947:
Birthdate of actor Richard Dreyfuss who has enjoyed a long and successful
career playing everything from college bound students to police undercover
agents to music teachers.
1947:
While giving a speech in Tel Aviv tonight, “David Ben-Gurion, chairman of the
Jewish Agency for Palestine said …that he had asked Sir Alan G. Cunningham, the
British High Commissioner, for some preliminary arrangements to help the
inhabitants of Palestine to carry on the administration prior to the British
withdrawal but that the suggestion had been turned down as ‘premature.’” In the same speech, the future Prime Minister
of Israel said that he welcomed what he described as a recent statement of peace
by King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan. [This speech was given exactly one month
before the UN was to vote the issue of partition. The British government was opposed to the
creation of a Jewish state and they would provide aide to the Arab Palestinians
but not to the Jewish Palestinians. Ben-Gurion’s comments about the King of
Jordan were either disingenuous or wishful thinking. Abdullah wanted Palestine and especially
Jerusalem for his kingdom. He offered
the Jews protected status if they would just give up their notion of an
independent state.]
1947:
At a ceremony held on Mount Scopus that marks the opening of the academic year,
Dr. Judah Magnes speaks out against the growing divisions in the society, and
against the terrorism that had begun to divide Jew from Jew.
1948:
Prior to the launch of Operation Hiram, tonight, Israeli aircraft flew 13
missions, dropping 21 tons on the villages whose capture was part of the goal
of an operation intended to ensure that the upper Galilee would be in Jewish
hands when the next UN ceasefire began.
1948:
“Kiss the Blood Off My Hands,” “a noir-thriller” co-directed by Robert Siodmark
that Walter Bernstein adapted from the best-selling novel was released in the
United States tdaoy.
1948: As part of Operation Hiram, the Israeli
Seventh occupied Qaddita, Meirun, Safsaf and Jish. The village of Safsaf was defended by the
Arab Liberation Army's Second Yarmuk Battalion. The battle lasted through the
night with both sides suffering serious casualties.
1948: Operation Hiram continues with a pitched
battle at the strong of Jish which is the same place as Gush Halav where the
Jews had fought the Romans 2000 years ago.
The difference is that this time the Jews are the victors.
1949: Emmanuel Roble’s French language play
“Montserrot” which had been adapted for Broadway by Lillian Hellman opened in
New York under Hellman’s direction
1949: “Lend An Ear” a musical revue featuring
sketches by Joseph Stein that had opened on Broadway at the National Theatre,
then moved to the Shubert Theatre where it was performed for the last time
today prior to moving to another venue on Broadway.
1951(29th of Tishrei, 5712): Sixty-two-year-old
Russian born business executive and member of the Wilshire Blvd. Temple in Los
Angeles, Samuel Harry Berch, the President of Arden Farms Dairy Company and the
husband of Rose Jean Chmelnitsky Berch passed away today in Beverly Hills after
which he was buried at the Home of Peace Memorial Park in East Los Angeles.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1951/10/30/121439391.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1952:
The Jerusalem Post’s editorial
commented on the recent unrest of new immigrants in ma’abarot. While it was a
pity that the current, mostly Communist agitation in camps turned the
immigrants’ mind aside from the achievements of the government and the Jewish
Agency in absorbing the massive immigration under difficult conditions, it was
high time that the conscience of the entire Israeli people to be aroused to a
nationwide effort to integrate the ma'abarot residents into the life of the
country by a practical and abiding personal interest in their problems. Ma'abarot was the name given to the large,
temporary camps constructed for newcomers to Israel. The first one was built in 1949 and hundreds
more would be built to take care of the influx of immigrants. They were obviously not a perfect solution,
but they were the best the struggling state could do under the
circumstances. Today there is a company
that markets a variety of agricultural products including baby food and pet
food under the name Macabre Products.
1956:
“Moonlight Gambler,” co-written by Bob Hillard and produced by Mitch Miller was
produced today.
1955:
Operated Egged, an attack on the Egyptian military post at Kuntilla in the
Sinai came to an end.
1956:
"Moonlight Gambler" a song
written by Bob Hilliard born Hilliard Goldsmith and Phil Springer, the son of
concert pianist Sylvia Springer and attorney Mordecai Spinger and produced by
Mitch Miller, the son of Hinda Rosenblum and “Abram Calmen Miller, a
Russian-Jewish immigrant wrought-iron worker” was released today.
1956:
The Sinai Campaign known in
Hebrew as the Mivtza Kadesh began. It lasted 8 days; it was coordinated
with both France and England. The reasons for the war were twofold: The
increased attacks on civilians by the Egyptian backed Fedayeen from Gaza had
caused 1300 casualties in Israel. The second was the blockade of the Gulf of
Aqaba which denied the Red Sea shipping routes to Israeli ships or the ships of
other nations that would be bring goods to Israel. This meant that Israeli shipping was limited
to Mediterranean ports which meant that Israeli’s economy was “breathing on one
lunge.” The French and English on the other hand were concerned with Egypt’s
decision to nationalize the Suez Canal. While Israel attacked Gaza and pushed
into half of Sinai, the French and English secured the canal itself. On the
Israeli side 171 people were killed with several hundred wounded. Under massive
United States and Soviet pressure Israel was forced to withdraw from the
Sinai. The campaign began with an
audacious paratroop drop by Israeli forces at the Straits of Tiran which opened
the Gulf of Aqaba to Israeli shipping.
As Chief of Staff, Moshe Dayan masterminded the lightning campaign that
swept across the Sinai Peninsula. The
man with eye patch became an international symbol for the “new Jew,” a
resourceful fighter, the citizen soldier building and defending the ancient
Jewish state. The Suez Campaign actually
lasted for about 100 hours. The
lightning quick victory gave rise to a number of jokes among comedians in the
United States. “Why did the fighting
only take 100 hours? The equipment was
rented and the Jews had to get it back in time or they would lose their
deposit.”
1956:
Four Israeli propeller-driven P-51 fighters cross into the Sinai. Flying at 12 feet above the ground, they use
their propellers to cut the telephone lines connecting the Egyptian air force
and army communication centers. The Egyptians have the larger force. It is well supplied by the Soviets with the
latest in equipment. But the Israelis
have the “advantages” of audacity and desperation. This was followed by a drop of less than 400
hundred paratroopers at the eastern end of the Mitla Pass. The Mitla Pass was
the key to the Israeli advance across the Sinai. Fortunately for the Israelis, the Egyptians
were confused as to what was happening.
If they had moved aggressively at this moment, these future four hundred
war heroes would have been POW or casualties and the Sinai Campaign would have
been over before it started.
1956: Border Police platoon shot
and killed 48 unarmed Arab civilians in the village of Kafr Kasim east of Petah
Tikvah because the residents were unknowingly in violation of a curfew imposed
on the village due to the onset of the Sinai Campaign. The subsequent trial and
conviction of the border policemen created a legal precedent that determined
that certain military orders - such as those to shoot unarmed curfew violators
- are so manifestly illegal that they must be disobeyed. The President of
Israel apologizes publicly for this episode in a speech on December 21, 2007.
1956: “A regiment of paratroopers
under the command of Rafael Eitan (Raful), lands near the eastern entrance of
the Mitla Pass. The rest of the brigade forces move through the Sinai desert,
capturing on their way several Egyptian strongholds after swift battles. Rafael
Eitan's regiment deploys near the dropping zone and waits for the rest of the
brigade to join.
1957(4th
of Cheshvan, 5718): The
http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,989771,00.html
1957:
A blast from a hand grenade or a bomb in the Knesset wounded David Ben Gurion
and four cabinet ministers. Moshe Carmel suffered a broken arm as a result of
the attack.
1958(15th
of Cheshvan, 5719): “Torah scholar” Michael Eliezer, affiliated with B’nai
Israel Congregation and Shomrei Mishmeres Hakodesh Congregation passed away
today.
1958:
In Hackensack, NJ, “Barbara (Seigel), an art teacher, and Edward C. Remnick, a
dentist” gave birth to New Yorker
Magazine editor David Remnick who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for Lenin’s
Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire and who in 1987 married Esther
Fein with whom he had three children – Alex, Noah and Natasha.
1960(8th
of Cheshvan, 5721): Parashat Lech-Lecha
1960:
“Wildcat,” the Cy Coleman (born Seymour Kaufman) opened in Philadelphia for a
pre-Broadway run that earned it a “glowing review in Variety.”
1961(19th
of Cheshvan, 5722): Seventy-one-year-old David J. Galter, “the editor of The
Jewish Exponent from 1932 to 1952,” a columnist who “wrote under the pseudonym
Baruch Haba” and the husband of Minnie Galter with whom he had two daughters
passed away today in Philadelphia.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1961/10/31/97628283.pdf
1963:
Supreme Court Justice Arthur J. Goldberg, Senator Abraham Ribicoff and Senator
Jacob Javits, met with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin but failed to effect
any policy changes after “challenge him regarding Moscow’s treatment of Jews.”
1964:
“The Time Travelers,” a sci-fi flic produced by Iowa native Samuel Z. Arkoff
and featuring an appearance by Steve Franken, the second cousin of Senator Al
Franken,was released today in the United States.
1964:
The town of Carmiel which is “twinned” with Baltimore, MD was established
today.
1965:
Funeral services are scheduled to be held today at “The Riverside” for Dr.
Joseph M. Moise, the husband of Bessie Moise and the father of Robert Moise.
1966(15th
of Cheshvan, 5727): Parashat Cheshvan
1967:
Expo 67, which featured “Habitat 67, or simply Habitat, a model community and
housing complex in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, designed by Israeli/Canadian
architect Moshe Safdie came to an end today.
1969
Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education, 396 U.S. 19 (1969), a United
States Supreme Court case in which the Court ordered immediate desegregation of
public schools in the American South in which
Melvyn R. Leventhal who attended a yeshiva elementary school supported the plaintiff’s
case was decided today.
1969
(17th of Cheshvan, 5730): Sixty-seven-year-old Chicago native and
Chicago alum Meyer Aaron Perlstein who became a successful pediatrician passed
away today.
1969:
“The Secret of Santa Vittoria” a film version of the novel of the same name
directed and produced by Stanley Kramer and with music by Ernest Gold was
released today in the United States.
1970:
The life of the great English sleuth is brought to the screen by two Jews as
“The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes,” a creation of I.A.L. Diamond and Billy
Wilder which premiered in the United States.
1970(29th
of Tishrei, 5731): Sixty-two-year-old Brooklyn born hospital administrator Dr.
Irvin Joseph Cohen passed away today in Rockville, MD
1971:
In Olmstead County, Minnesota, Cynthia Palmer and Michael Horowitz gave birth
to Winona Laura Horowitz who gained fame as actress Winona Ryder “who has
described herself as Jewish.”
1971(10th of Cheshvan, 5732): Seventy-year-old
Victoria, BC born University of Washington graduate Addis Gutmann, a fur
merchant in Settled who served in the office of the Quartermaster General in
Alaska during WW II passed away today.
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv78515
1972:
“Nearly 8 weeks after the Munich Massacre, a Lufthansa jet was hijacked by two
Black September members, who demanded the release of the three” surviving
terrorists.
1972:
Jamal Al-Gashey, Adnan Al-Gashey, and Mohammed Safady the 3 surviving Munich
terrorists were released in exchange for the hostages onboard hijacked
Lufthansa Flight 615 and travelled to Libya, where they went into hiding.
1973:
“The Homecoming,” the film version of Harold Pinter’s play produced by Ely
Landau was released today in the United States.
1974:
Shlomo Hillel completed his Internal Affairs Minister of Israel.
1974:
Yosef Burg began serving as Israel’s Internal Affairs Minister.
1975:
In Ann Arbor, MI, Warren M. Schur and Anne Herbert gave birth to Harvard
educated “television producer, director and screenwriter Michael Schur who
began his career writing for “Saturday
Night Live.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/20/books/michael-schur-how-to-be-perfect.html
1975(24th
of Cheshvan, 5736): Seventy-one-year-old Charles Isaac Grossberg, the Polish
born son of Morris and Rachel Miriam Grossberg, the husband of Ruth Evelyn
Sherman Tucker with whom he had three daughters passed away today in Southfield,
Michigan after which he was buried at Hebrew Memorial Park in Clinton Township,
Michigan.
1976(5th
of Cheshvan, 5737): Fifty-four-year-old Irving M. Cohen, the “President of the
Fifth Avenue Card chain” founded by his father Isidore and the husband of Vera
Cohen with whom he had two sons – Eugene and Arthur – lost his battle with
cancer and passed away today.
1977(17th
of Cheshvan, 5738): Parashat Vayera
1977(17th
of Cheshvan, 5738): In one of those inexplicable tragedies, twelve year old
Joshua Berman the son of Sarah and Shelley Berman passed away today.
1981:
NBC broadcast the first episode of “Gimme A Break” a sitcom created by Mort
Lachman and Sy Rosen and co-starring Jonathan Silverman.
1982:
“Q” a “fantasy horror film directed, produced and written by Larry Cohen was
released in the United States today.
1982:
In Monmouth County, NJ, Rabbi Jerome Malino, the immediate past president of
the Central Conference of American Rabbis, was the guest speaker at the formal
dedication of the new sanctuary which was named in memory of Rabbi Aaron
Lefkowitz.
1986:
“Several months before his death,” Buddy Rich and his big band appeared for the
last time on the Terry Wogan Show.
1987(6th
of Cheshvan, 5748): Ninety-seven-year-old World War I Veteran and Medal of Honor Winner
Phillip Carl Katz passed away.
1987:
“Dark Tower,” a horror film with music by Richard Einhorn and co-starring
Theodore Bikel was released today in the United States.
1988(18th
of Cheshvan, 5749): Parashat Vayera
1988(18th
of Cheshvan, 5749): Eighty-four-year-old Baltimore born major league baseball
player and coach Andrew “Andy” Cohen who played baseball for the University of
Alabama before moving on to a career that included playing the infield for the
New York Giants and managing the Philadelphia Phillies.
1989:
In Bozman, MD, Rabbi Joy Levitt officiated at the wedding of Audrey Sue
Feinberg and David Andrew Kaplan, the son Alan William Kaplan, a surgeon and
Erna Kaplan, a social worker who after graduating from Cornell, NYU and
Stanford went on to a career in journalism that included twenty years at
Newsweek and five years at Forutne.
1990(10th
of Cheshvan, 5751): Seventy-seven-year-old producer Herbert Brodkin whose
career encompassed the “golden television” when he gave us such quality
dramatic programs as “Playhouse 90” passed away today.(As reported by Eleanor
Blau)
1991:
Today, the Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel was founded on the
hospital grounds, the largest such facility in Israel. It opened to the public
in April 1992. It spans an area of 35,000 sq. meters.
1992(2nd
of Cheshvan, 5753): Ninety-three-year-old Eugene Albert Aschaffenburg the son of Elivine Schafter Aschaffenburg and
the son of Albert Aschaffenburg, “a prominent New Orleans Capitalist and Real
Estate Developer who had planned to build the Pontchartrain Hotel next door to
the Orpheum Theater and the husband of Janet Jacobs Aschaffenburg passed away
today after which he was buried in Gates of Prayer Cemetery#2 in New Orleans.
1993(14th
of Cheshvan, 5754): Chaim Mizrahi, resident of Beit-El, was kidnapped by three
terrorists from a poultry farm near Ramallah. He was murdered and his body
burned. Three Fatah members were later convicted of the murder
1993(14th
of Cheshvan, 5754): Seventy-nine-year-old Latvian-American mathematician Lipman
Bers passed away in New Rochelle, America.
http://www.ams.org/notices/199501/bers.pdf
1993:
“The Nightmare Before Christmas” starring Danny Elfman who also wrote the music
was released today in the United States.
1996(16th
of Cheshvan, 5757): Eighty-five-year-old New York born and University of
Chicago graduate and HUC ordained rabbi, Paul Gorin, the husband of Dorothy
Mathes and recipient of the Bronze Star earned while serving as Chaplain in WW
II with the rank of major who served
several congregations including Temple Beth El in Chicago and Temple Israel in
Canton passed away Canton, OH.
1998:
Hurricane Mitch the most powerful hurricane of the 1998 Atlantic hurricane
season makes landfall in Honduras. (If
you know the name of the guy who does this, you will understand how this storm
rates a mention in a Jewish history blog.)
1998(9th
of Cheshvan, 5759) One Israeli soldier was killed when a terrorist drove an
explosives-laden car into an Israeli army jeep escorting a bus with 40
elementary school students from the settlement of Kfar Darom in the Gaza Strip for
which Hamas “claimed responsibility.”
1998:
“Susan’s Plan” directed by John Landis and featuring Rob Schneider and Lisa
Edelstein “was screened at the AFI Film Festival” today.
1999:
Being John Malkovich, directed by Spike Jonze, co-produced by Sandy Stern and
written by Charles Kaufman, the New York born so of Helen and Myron Kaufman was
released in the United States today.
2000: The New York Times book section features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or on
topics of special Jewish interesting includingGhost Light: A Memoir by Frank Rich and Susan Sontag:The Making of an Icon by
Carl Rollyson and Lisa Paddock.
2001: Funeral services are scheduled to be held for seventy-five-year-old
Harry Gerard Bissinger this morning.
2001: “Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys performed at
the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City” today.
2002: Random House published David Blaine's Mysterious
Stranger: A Book of Magic
2003: Andrew Wilkie, “an Oxford University professor
who rejected a student for graduate work last summer because he was an Israeli
has been suspended without pay for two months and ordered to attend
anti-discrimination training.”
2004: “Palaces of Prayer, a new exhibit at the Angel
Orensanz Foundation on New York’s Lower East Side, includes 70 superb color
prints of synagogues that should convince even the most book-bound skeptic that
Jews really do love to build, and have built very well when given the chance”
opened today at the Angel Orensanz Center on Norfolk Street in New York City.
2004:In Toronto, Avi Lewis and Naomi
Klein release a big screen documentary entitled “The Take.”
2004: At the Municipal Building in New York Nobel
Prize winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz married Anya Schiffrin of Columbia
University.
2004: Newspapers and sports programs continued to
sing the praises of Theo Epstein, the young, Jewish, General Manager who played
a key role in Boston Red Sox’s first World Series victory since 1918.
2005(26th
of Tishrei, 5766): Parashat Bereshit
2005:
“The Israelis continued their attacks in the Gaza Strip and sweeps of West Bank
towns in response to a suicide bombing on October 26, claimed by the militant
faction Islamic Jihad, that killed five civilians and wounded 20 more in the
Israeli town of Hadera.
2006:
Benjamin "Ben" Weider announced his retirement as President of the
International Federation of BodyBuilders
2006:
As the investigation into allegations of sexual harassment continued, Moshe
Katsav was advised to step down from his position of President of Israel.
2006:
The seventh International Poetry Festival opens at Jerusalem's Mishkenot
Sha'ananim. with a reading of "Kol Koreh," accompanied by students
from the Rimon School of Jazz. The artistic directors of the Jerusalem festival
are the poet Agi Mishol and Prof. Ariel Hirschfeld.
2006:
The Washington Post book section
features Haim Watzman’s review of Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the
Middle East Divide by Jeffrey Goldberg.
2006: The New York Times book section features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or on
topics of special Jewish interesting includingJourney to a Revolution: A Personal Memoir
and History of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 by Michael Korda and
the paperback version Wickett’s
Remedy by Myla Goldberg.
2007:
The Bank Leumi hosts a West End Gala as
part of the UK Jewish Film Festival sponsoring a showing of the The Band's Visit.
2007:Jon Entine discusses his
new book, Abraham's Children: Race,
Identity, and the
2007(17th
of Cheshvan, 5768): St.-Sgt. Maj. (res.) Ehud Efrati, a 34-year-old father of
three and the IDF's third casualty in Gaza this year, was killed in clashes
with Palestinian gunmen near the Sufa Crossing in southern Gaza.
2007(17th
of Cheshvan, 5768): Sixty-six-year-old Israeli comedian and actor Yisrael
"Poli" Poliakov who was a member of “HaGashash HaHiver” passed away
today
2007:Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced he has been
diagnosed with prostate cancer.
2007(17th
of Cheshvan, 5768): Israel “Poli” Poliakov, actor, singer and member of the
legendary comedy trio Hagashash Hahiver (The Pale Scout) died of cancer at
Petah Tivkva’s Rabin Medical-Beilinson Campus at the age of 66.
2008:
In Montreal, the demolition of Bens De Lux Delicatessen & Restaurant
continued as the “vertical red Bens sign that was visible for several blocks,
was taken down.”
2008:
The "Nextbook" series and the D.C. Jewish Community Center present a
reading and discussion with Israeli writer David Grossman, author of The Yellow Wind, the novel Someone to Run Withand the newly published Writing in the Dark: Essays on Literature
and Politics, at American University, in Washington, D.C.
2008:
“The First Basket,” a documentary about Jews and basketball opens in New York
City.www.thefirstbasket.com.
2008:
The Twenty-Third Israel Film Festival opens in New York
with a gala event at the Ziegfeld Theater featuring the US premiere of the film
"Lost Islands” the biggest Box Office Success in Israel in 2008.
2008(30th of Tishrei, 5769): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
2008:Agriprocessors,
the largest kosher meat company in the country until recently, has been hit
with nearly $10 million in fines for withholding workers’ wages
2008: The 2008
Chicago Festival of Israeli Film opens tonight with the debut screening of
"Waves Of Freedom." .
2008:Plans for a
Jerusalem museum dedicated to tolerance and coexistence got the final go-ahead
to from Israel's Supreme Court, which rejected an appeal by Muslims who
complained the site covers part of an ancient Muslim cemetery.
2009: David Sax comes to Manny’s
Deli in Chicago to discuss the fate of Jewish delicatessen and promote his new
book Save the Deli: In Search of Perfect Pastrami, Crusty Rye, and the Heart
of Jewish Delicatessen. One question
that might come up is can a Jewish delicatessen really be Jewish if it is not
Kosher?
2009:The Greater
Washington Council of NA'AMAT USA is hosting its Annual Book and Author
Luncheon at Temple Emanuel in Kensington Md., featuring journalist Naftali
Bendavid, author of "The Thumpin': How Rahm Emanuel and the Democrats
Learned to Be Ruthless and Ended the Republican Revolution," Barbara
Graham, editor of "Eye of My Heart: 27 Writers Reveal the Hidden Pleasures
and Perils of Being a Grandmother" and Washington Post writer Steve
Luxenberg, author of the memoir "Annie's Ghosts: A Journey Into a Family
Secret."
2009: In Houston, TX, Heroes &
Legacies presents a Kinky Friedman Cigar Event, featuring a visit by Texas’
greatest living Jewish iconoclast, Kinky Friedman.
2009: The New York Times
featured a review of Eating:A Memoir by Jason
Epstein
2009: Stephen Tobolowsky, the character
actor best known for his portrayal of “Ned Ryerson” in “Groundhog Day” “started
a new podcast on /Film called The Tobolowsky Files, where he tells stories, in
a similar fashion to Tobolowsky's film Stephen Tobolowsky's Birthday Party.”
2010:Tamar
Eisenman is scheduled to perform at the BAMcafe in Brooklyn NY
2010:Two packages
addressed to Chicago-area synagogues containing explosive devices that were
shipped from Yemen were intercepted today
2010:The Jewish
Museum in New York is opening a new exhibition, “Houdini: Art and Magic,” today
and curator Brooke Kamin Rapaport says the entrance gallery will feature a
replica stage projecting a life-size image of the great Jewish magician
performing his water torture act.
2010: Dwight Garner reviewed “Must
You Go? My Life With Harold Pinter” Antonia Fraser’s fond and affecting new
memoir of the late playwright with whom she spent the last decades of his life.
2011(1st of Cheshvan):
Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan and Parshat Noach
2011: Nathan Abramoff is scheduled
to be called to the Torah as a Bar Mitzvah at Agudas Achim in Iowa City, Iowa.
2011: The
Best of Chamber Music – Woodwinds Fest featuring Esti Hfafa (flute) Tibi Zeiger
(clarinet), Miki Zohar (oboe), Alon Reuven (horn) and Mauricio Paez (bassioon)
is scheduled to take place at the Tamir Music Center, Ein Kerem-Jerusalem
2011: The
Hyman S & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival is scheduled to present
an evening with Ursula Hegi, whose newest novel “Children and Fire “is set in
the fictional town of Burgdorf, Germany in the early days of the Third Reich”
2011: 55th anniversary
of the Sinai Campaign, Israel’s first successful major military operation
against an Arab state dedicated to her destruction.
2011: 67th anniversary
of the broadcast of a Jewish service at Aachen, Germany which was described as
the first Jewish service to be held publicly on German soil since the rise of
Hitler.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZihm6VlYjo
2011: The IAF struck an Islamic Jihad training
camp today in southern Gaza Strip, killing a commander of the Palestinian
faction and four of its munitions experts, officials on both sides said..
2011:
Some 20 rockets and mortar shells were fired from Gaza into southern Israel
today, killing one man and wounding four others.
2011:Some 20,000 people gathered
tonight for a social protest at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, almost two months
after the largest protest in Israel's history took place. In Jerusalem, about
3,000 people gathered and 200 gathered in Rishon Letzion. The social protest in
Be'er Sheva was canceled after the Home Front Command forbade public gatherings
of more than 500 people, in light of the barrage of rockets being fired from
the Gaza Strip toward southern Israel.
2012: A
Hebrew version of “Arsenic and Old Lace” written by Joseph Kesselring, the New
York born son of Henry and Frances Kesselring, opened today at the Habima
Theatre.
2012:
Swedish Ambassador Hans Magnusson is scheduled to deliver a lecture entitled
“Raoul Wallenberg, 100 years: will the riddle ever be solved?” at the Wiener
Library in London.
2012: As
Hurricane Sandy made its way up the East Coast of the United States the Jewish
Federation of Greater Washington and area day schools were closed today as were
the offices of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia.
2012(13th
of Cheshvan, 5773): Jessie Streich-Kest, 24, who worked as a high school teacher in
New York City, and Jacob Vogelman, a student at Brooklyn College were killed
tonight “in Brooklyn by a falling tree during superstorm Sandy. (As reported by
March Oster)
2012:U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff
Chairman Martin Dempsey was in Israel today to discuss a joint missile defense
drill that began a week ago.
2012:
Twenty Kassam rockets were fired into southern Israel early this morning,
shortly after the Israeli Air Force struck terrorist targets in the Gaza Strip.
2013: The 25th annual Kosherfest is
scheduled to open in Secaucus, NJ.
2013: The Arava Insitute Hazon Israel Bicycle
Ride is scheduled to begin at Jerusalem.
2013: J.J. Abrams is scheduled to release S,
a novel by Doug Dorst.
2013: Members of the Israel Philharmonic
Orchestra and conductor/violinist Julian Rachlin are scheduled to return to New
York for a jubilant one-night benefit engagement at Alice Tully Hall.
2013: At Temple Solel, Naomi Ragen is scheduled
to discuss her latest novel, The Sisters Weiss.
2013: Signs purporting to be from the Israeli
government were placed on dozens of military graves at the Mount Hertzl
cemetery in Jerusalem today, in protest of the impending release of 26
Palestinian prisoners later today. (As reported by Gavriel Fiske)
2013: As Israel prepares to release 26 more
terrorist prisoners as a "gesture" to the Palestinian Authority,
Arutz Sheva presents a partial list of those slated for freedom.
2014: “Gett, the Trial of Vivian Amsalem” is
scheduled to be shown at the Sydney Opening Night of the Jewish International
Film Festival.
2014: The opening reception for “L’Chaim – To
Life!” is scheduled to take place today in Portland, Oregon.
2014: Gal “Mekel was waived by the Mavericks.”
2014: The Twin Cities Jewish Film Festival is
scheduled to host “Jewish Food For Thought” “featuring animated shorts and
graphic novels by Hanan Harchol.
2014: The Center For Jewish History is
scheduled to host “The Lost Jewish Music of Belarus.”
2014: The Wiener Library for the Study of the
Holocaust & Genocide is scheduled to host the launch event for “The 1984
Anti-Sikh Pogroms Remembered.”
2014: The Tulane University Jewish Studies
Department under the leadership of Dr. Brian Horowitz is schedule to host a
“Panel on the Jewish Life in the Mississippi Delta” with Michael Cohen, Carol
Mills and Anny Bloch-Raymon.
2014: In Washington, DC, the annual Hyman S.
& Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival is scheduled to come to an end.
2014: “Democrats and administration officials
rushed to distance themselves today from profane anti-Netanyahu remarks
attributed to a senior administration official one day earlier – and argued
against the conclusion that US-Israel relations were in an unprecedented
crisis.” As reported by Rebecca Shimoni Stoil)
[Editor’s note: Based on media coverage, this “crisis” is a one-sided
affair because there has been no coverage on any of the major outlets.]
2014: “Israel Police raised the level of
preparedness across the country tonight following the attempted murder of
prominent right wing activist Rabbi Yehuda Glick earlier this evening in
Jerusalem.” (As reported by Lazar Berman and Ilan Ben Zion)
2015: Faird Abdouch, “an Arab-Frenchman accused
of assaulting a rabbi and his son after stabbing a Jewish man in Marseille” was
charged today “with aggravated assault” “according to Michele Teboul, a leader
of the Jewish community of Marseille.”
2015: The Catholic Center at NYU is scheduled
“to host Cilia and Hadasa Bau, the daughters of Holocaust survivors Rebecca and
Joseph Bau, the original couple whose wedding is featured in the film “Schindler’s
List.”
2015: The Tulane University Jewish Studies
Department is scheduled to host a “Panel on the Jewish Life in the Mississippi
Delta” with Michael Cohen, Carol Mills and Anny Bloch-Raymond.
2015: “Above and Beyond: The Birth of the
Israeli Air Force” and “The Last Mentsch” are scheduled to be shown at the
Jewish Arts & Film Festival of Fairfield County, CT.
2015: Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson is scheduled
to discuss his latest work, Renewing the Process of Creation: A Jewish
Integration of Science and Spirit at Temple Emanu-El.
2015: “Egypt: faith after the pharaohs” an
exhibition that includes “the Gaster Bible, a 9th-century Torah from Egypt
featuring one of the oldest Hebrew illuminated text” and “fragments of
documents from the Cairo Geniza containing Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic, Aramaic and
Arabic texts detailing Jewish life in Cairo during the Middle Ages” is
scheduled to open today at the British Museum.”
2016(27th of Tishrei, 5777): As the
Torah cycle begins again with Parasha Bereshit Jeremiah Collins is scheduled to
be called to the Torah as a Bar Mitzvah at Agudas Achim.
2016(27th of Tishrei, 5777): Eighty-nine-year-old
William Morris talent agent Norman Brokaw passed away today. (As reported by
Sam Roberts)
2016: Marguerite MIshkin, who along with her
older sister Annette, were hidden by a rural Belgian Catholic family during WW
II is scheduled to deliver a “Survivor Talk” at the Illinois Holocaust Museum
and Education Center.
2016: “Soviet and Russian stage and film
legend, Vladimir Zeldin was hospitalized today in Moscow’s Sklifosovsky
Institute of Emergency Medicine>
2016: “Not That Jewish” starring Emmy®
Award-winning and Golden Globe® nominated writer, actress and comedian Monica
Piper stars in this autobiographical ride of a Jew-“ish” woman’s life is
scheduled to open at New World Stages in Manhattan.
2016: In Chicago, the Cubs led by President
Theo Epstein are scheduled to take on the Cleveland Indians led by General
Manager Mike Chernoff in the fourth game of the World Series.
2017: The
New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including The Power by Naomi Alderman,
Keep Her Safe by Sophie Hannah and the recently released paperback edition
of A Gambler’s Anatomy by Jonathan Lethem and Ike’s Gamble: America’s
Rise to Dominance in the Middle East by Michael Doran as well as interview
with author Ron Chernow.
2017: Today, “two Palestinians, Youssef Khaled
Mustafa Kamil, 20, and Muhammad Ziad Abu al-Rub, 19, were indicted on charges
of premeditated murder for their role in the stabbing to death of sixty-nine
year old Reuven Schmerling whose body was dismembered after he was killed on
October 4, “the day before the start of Sukkot.” (As reported by Judah Ari
Gross)
2017(9th of Cheshvan, 5778): Ninety-six-year-old
Tzipora Jochsberger, the refugee from Nazi Germany and founder of the “Hebrew
Arts School Music and Dance,” now known as the “Kaufman Music Center” passed
away today in Jerusalem. (As reported by
Richard Sandomir)
2017(9th of Cheshvan, 5778): Eighty-six-year-old
Linda Nochlin, the Crown Heights raised “art historian” passed away today. (As
reported by Roberta Smith)
2017: The Illinois Holocaust Museum and
Education Center is scheduled to open the “Take a Stand Center--named by
Smithsonian Magazine as one of the top 12 fall exhibitions in the world—which
takes visitors on a journey about the dangers of hatred, prejudice, and
indifference-and the power of individual voices-in a new multi-million-dollar
exhibit.”
2017: “Wonder Woman” star Gal Gadot will not be
presenting the Tree of Life Award to director and producer Brett Ratner “at
dinner for the Jewish National” today “at Lowes Hollywood Hotel as previously
planned.
2017: At Temple Israel in Memphis, TN, the
Sisterhood is scheduled to host a class on “Cooking Like Bubbie Did” while the
Brotherhood is scheduled to host a board meeting followed by dinner and a night
of poker. (Editor’s Note – Personally, I would rather join the Sisterhood
event)
2017: In Australia, the Sydney Jewish Museum is
scheduled to host “Beyond Empathy: Responsibility in a post-truth World.”
2017: The Yeshiva University Museum is
scheduled to host an “international conference, featuring scholars from Israel,
Italy, Sweden and the United States,” who will explore “the historical context
and cultural significance of the Arch of Titus from Imperial Rome to modern-day
Israel.”
2017: The Jewish Federation is scheduled to
host Super Sunday.
2018: In Des Moines, IA, the Jewish community
is scheduled to “hold a vigil, memorial and healing service for the victims of
the mass shooting at Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh led by “our rabbis
and invited speakers from the interfaith community” at Tifereth Israel
Synagogue
2018: In Jerusalem, the Eden-Tamir Music Center
is scheduled to host the first program in the Concert Lecture Series where the
question is “Bach on the Piano or on the harpsichord?”
2018: The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is
scheduled to host a lecture by Professor David Biale on “Was the Baal Shem Tov
the founder of Chasidism?” as part of the course on “Chasidism: A New History.”
2018: The Museum of Jewish Heritage is
scheduled to host a lecture by Eric Vuillard, the author of The Order of the
Day, on “the extraordinary sequence of events and individual acts that led to
the catastrophe of the Anschluss.”
2018: Sara J. Bloomfield, director, United
States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Daniel Greene, historian and curator,
Americans and the Holocaust special exhibition at the New York Tribute dinner
of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
2019: The Sonoma County Jewish Film Festival is
scheduled to present a program of five short films, including comedy “Jewish
Blind Date” and Oscar-nominated “Joe’s Violin.”
2019: Symphony Space is scheduled to host
“Yemen Blues Plays Hallel” featuring the group that “blends Yemenite Jewish and
ancient Arabic music with Afro-funk.”
2019: The Center for Jewish History is
scheduled to host “the legal genealogist, Judy G. Russell as she lectures on
“DNA and the Golden Rule – The Law and Ethics of Genetic Genealogy.”
2019: In Palo Alto CA, the Oshman Family JCC is
scheduled to host the “Street Corner Cabaret” that includes lunch “and a
concert with vocalist Deborah Rosengaus, accordionist Ron Borelli and dancers.”
2019: The Illinois Holocaust Museum is
scheduled to host the opening of the Karkomi Holocaust Exhibition” that offers
displays on Jewish resistance during the Shoah.
2019: One hundredth anniversary of the birth of
University of Chicago graduate Deborah Dorfman Levin, the wife of Joseph B.
Levin and the mother of Judy, David and Mitchell Levin
2019(30th of Tishrei, 5780): Rosh
Chodesh Cheshvan I
2020: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is
scheduled to host Fran Lebowitz and Frank Rich discussing the “State of the
Union” and “Election 2020.”
2020: The Office of Cultural Affairs and the
Museum of Jewish Heritage are scheduled to co0spons a reading from the play
“You Will Not Play Wagner” by Victor Gordon.
2020: In Palm Beach Gardens, FL, Temple Judea
is scheduled to host a Concert with Rabbi Or Zohard and Feliza Zohar (Live from
the Galilee in Israel).
2020: The Illinois Holocaust Museum is
scheduled to host a Lunch and Learn with Linda R. Hirshman, the author Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O'Connor and
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World.
2020: The online UK
Jewish Film festival is scheduled to begin making available an online screening
of “Ganef.”
2020: As the Pandemic
worsens, it was reported today that Senator Chuck Schumer supports the plan of
the New York Taxi Workers Alliance which asks New York City “to guarantee loans
up to a ceiling” to help them get through the crisis which is costing them
livelihoods.
2021: “Finding New
Ways to Write About and Grapple With Israel” published today provides a review
of Can We Talk About Israel? A Guide for the Curious, Confused and
Conflicted by Daniel Sokatch.
2022: Three days prior to election day, the
Israel Labor party is scheduled to hold a rally in memory of former prime
minister Itzhak Rabin in Jerusalem’s Zion Square.
2022: The Eden Tamir Music Center is scheduled
to host a concert Flute Sounds in Ein
Kerem – Noam Buchman and Friends this morning.
2022(4th
of Cheshvan, 5783): Parashat Noach
2023: In New Jersey,
the Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth Country is scheduled to host a talk by
Sude Addlestone on “The Leo Frank Story.”
2023: In Jerusalem,
the Agnon House which has had to cancel in-person lectures because of the
terrorist attacks is scheduled to host a new online lecture series with
Professor Adamiell Kosman on “Human Encounters: Stories about the ‘Other and
the ‘Stranger” from a Jewish perspective.”
2023: The Museum at
Eldridge Street is scheduled to host “All-of-a Kind Family” a walking tour in
which participants can “follow in the footsteps of Ella, Henny, Sarah,
Charlotte, and Gertie, the beloved sisters depicted in Sydney Taylor’s
children’s classic All-of-a-Kind Family.”
2023: Today, during “From
Field to Frontline: Leket Israel's Vital Support in Wartime” Joseph Gitler is
scheduled to present updates on Leket’s immediate response to the war in Israel.
2023: The Nashville
Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “Farewell Mister
Haffmann.”
2023: As part of its
“Jewish Values and Strategy in Wartime” series Tikvah Online Academy is
scheduled to host a lecture by Rabbi Shlomo Brady on “Jewish Ethics of War,”
Dr. Gabe Sheinmann on “The Gaza Strip: Past, Present , Future,” and Matthew
Continetti on “Left, Right and Israel: A Political Overview.”
2023 KISS, featuring Haifa-born
and former Israeli lead singer Gene Simmons is scheduled to begin its latest
final tour in Austin, TX today.
2023: Tikvah is
scheduled to present the Jewish Leadership Conference 2023 at the Mandarin
Oriental Hotel in New York City.
2023: The Stav
Festival which features performances of over 100 Israeli artists at the 14th
Street Y is scheduled to come to an end.
2023: A Historic
Jewish Atlanta Walking Tour is scheduled to take place at Oakland Cemetery.
2023: The New York
Times features books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish
readers including The Witch of Woodland, Laurel Snyder’s novel that
“features a depiction of Yom Kippur services so lovely it brought tears” to the
eyes of the reviewer.
2023: In the NFL,
A.J. Dillion and the Green Back Packers are scheduled to play host to Greg
Joseph and the Minnesota Vikings. (JTA)
2023: As October 29 begins in Israel, while there are
on-going demands for Israel to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza, the New York
Times is being told that Hamas is
stockpiling food and fuel in the Gaza Strip, keeping it from residents who are
in desperate need,” the IDF is increasing its ground incursions in Gaza and the
hundreds of hostages including the elderly and children are starting day 22 of
their 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)
2024: In New Orleans ,JCRS (Jewish-Children's-Regional-Service)
an organization that really deliver the goods is scheduled to hold its Board-Meeting
2024: The Israel Defense and Security Forum is scheduled to
host a second 30-minute briefing on the
“War in Israel, hosted by Moshe Davis.”
2024: The Jewish Theological Seminary's "Zionism
Today, Tomorrow and Beyond" two-day conference which will bring together
scholars, religious leaders, practitioners and writers to grapple with the ways
in which North American Jewish relationships to Zionism are affected by current
and ongoing political and security developments in Israel. Forward editor-in-chief
will join a panel discussion on “Zionism and the Challenges of Power” is
scheduled to begin today.
2024: Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture by
Helen Fry on “Jesus: A Jewish Hero?”
2024: The Streicker Cultural Center is scheduled to an “Introduction
to Jewish Genealogy” with Moriah Amit.
2024: The National Educators’ Institute is scheduled to
host “American Jewry’s Response to Israel’s War of Independence” with Jenna
Weissman Joselit
2024: Rediscover Isreal “A Journey for the Mind, the Heart
and the Spirit” supported by the Streicker Center is scheduled to come to an
end today.
2024: Jewish Women’s Archive is scheduled to host “Genealogies
of Jewish Lesbian Novels: A Panel Discussion on Identity-Based Narrative.”
2024: The American Jewish Historical Society is scheduled
to present a book talk with Jason Friedman, the author of Liberty Street: A
Savannah Family, Its Golden Boy and the Civil War and moderator Laura
Arnold Leibman.
2024: As October 29th 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 388 in captivity while Israelis brace for more rocket attacks by
Hezbollah, Iran and terrorists based in Iraq
(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)