September 23
1928(9th of Tishrei, 5689): Erev Yom Kippur
1928: On the second day of the Massena (NY) Blood Libel, the state police questioned a Jew named Morris Goldberg about the disappearance of four year old Barbara Griffiths who had been reported missing yesterday. Goldberg was lacking in any real knowledge about his religion and may have left the police with the impression “that there might be some truth to the rumors that Jews engage in ritual murder. The police then interrogated Berel Brennglass, the rabbi at Adath Israel Synagogue “When asked about the allegations of ritual murder, Brennglass told the police and the town's mayor, who was present, that they should be ashamed for asking such questions. He expressed outrage that people believed such lies in the United States in the 20th century.” “Barbara Griffiths was found in the woods later that afternoon roughly a mile from her home. She told authorities she had become lost during her walk and slept in the forest. Nevertheless, some citizens of Massena continued to believe that Griffiths had been kidnapped by the Jews. They attributed her safe return to the discovery of the Jews' plot. The Massena blood libel drew national attention. Through the efforts of Rabbi Brennglass, the American Jewish Committee and the American Jewish Congress denounced the town's leaders, prompting apologies from the mayor and the state police to the rabbi, the town's Jews, and all Jews of the United States.In his apology, the mayor wrote:
2012: Hundreds of mourners arrived in Modi'in early this morning to participate in the funeral of IDF Corporal Netanel Yahalomi, who was killed along the Egyptian border the day before yesterday. The 20-year-old Artillery Corps soldier was shot in the head by terrorists as he and his unit was reportedly giving water to African migrants who had arrived on the border. A second soldier was wounded in the attack. (As reported by Yaakov Lappin)
2013: In Washington, DC, the Historic Sixth & I Synagogue is scheduled to host Café Night which will including “Basics and Beyond or Crash Course in Hebrew Reading” and class on “Your Adult Bar or Bat Mitzvah”
484 BCE : Birthdate of the very influential Greek playwright Euripides. Wherever Greek culture spread, writers attempted to create drama in the manner of Euripides. During the time of Hellenization of the Jews, a Jewish playwright by the name of Ezekiel re-wrote Exodus as a Greek tragedy. Written in Greek, it was in the style of Euripides and presents the story of Exodus slightly differently. Here Moses not only was educated in the Jewish traditions, but had a wide range of knowledge of Egyptian spiritualist wisdom. A central part of the Pagan Mysteries was a Pagan god-man, mortal yet immortal, god yet man. One who died yet was resurrected, a figure that often came to save mankind and offered spiritual teachings. If the Jews could Hellenize Exodus into a Greek tragedy, might a Hebrew version of Euripides'The Bacchae be far off?
63 BCE : Birthdate of Octavian who would reign as Caesar Augustus from 27 BCE to 14 CE. Augustus continued to follow the comparatively benign policies of his great-uncle Julius Caesar in dealing with the Jews. He allowed Herod to rule a Kingdom of Judea Judea into a province but he instructed the governors not to do anything that would be offensive to the Jewish population such as parading the Roman Eagle through the streets of Jerusalem
1122: Signing of the Concordat of Worms. It was an agreement between Pope Calixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V that brought to an end the first phase of the power struggle between the Papacy and the Holy Roman Emperors. The Jews of Worms may have had a special affection for Calixtus II. In 1120, he had issued Sicut Judaeis, a Papal Bull that reiterated the Church’s protection of the Jews in the wake of the persecutions of the first Crusade. The Jewish community of Worms had been wiped out by Crusaders traveling to the Holy Land during the First Crusade. Unfortunately, Christians ignored the words of the bull since the community was again slaughtered during the Second Crusade.
1529:Siege of Vienna
1658(2ndof Tishrei): Nathaniel, son of Benjamin, son of Azriel Trabotti who was born in 1576 passed away today in Modena.
1672: The Cossacks captured Satanow , Poland
1720: In New York, Jacob and Abigal Franks gave birth to their youngest son, David who would side with the British during the American Revolution.“As a young man, he moved to Philadelphia, where he became a successful merchant, engaging in land speculation, shipping, and fur trading; he was also a member of the Congregation Mikveh Israel. He was elected a member of the provincial assembly in 1748. Franks, with his wife Margaret Evans a member of one of Philadelphia's Christian families, was socially prominent in the city. During the French and Indian War, he was engaged by the government to supply the army with provisions. In 1755, upon the defeat of General Braddock, he helped to raise a fund of £5,000 for the further defense of the colony. He signed the Non-Importation Resolution of 1765, but eventually his loyalist tendencies won over. During the revolution, he was the king's agent for Pennsylvania. Perceived as a threat to the security of the United States, he was jailed briefly in 1778 by order of Congress, and then imprisoned again in 1780. He for a time owned and inhabited Woodford, a mansion in Germantown, now a National Historic Landmark. His nephew, Col. David Salisbury Franks, a revolutionary who served as aide to Benedict Arnold, came under further suspicion because of his relationship with his loyalist uncle. He died in October, 1794 in the United Kingdom
1726: The torture of António José da Silva “a Portuguese-Brazilian dramatist, known as "the Jew" (O Judeu)” intensified. Eventually he confessed to having followed Jewish practices, a confession that saved his life.
1776(10th of Tishrei, 5537): Yom Kippur – American Jews fast for the first time as citizens of the newly independent United States
1786(1stof Tishrei, 5547): Rosh Hashanah
1795(10thof Tishrei, 5556): As the Russians, Prussians and Austrians negotiate the treaty that will result in the third and final partition of Poland, Jews observe Yom Kippur
1820(15thof Tishrei, 5581): For the first time during the reign of King George IV of the UK, Jews observe Sukkoth
1828(15thof Tishrei, 5589): Sukkoth is observed for the last time during the Presidency of John Q. Adams.
1837 (13 Tishrei, 5598): On the secular calendar Rabbi Akiva Eiger of Posen passed away. Born in 1761, he was a renowned scholar and leading Talmudist. He was also a leading opponent of the Reform movement sweeping across German, one of the leading Talmudists in the first half of the nineteenth century. His devotion to the sick during a cholera epidemic earned him the recognition of Frederick III Rabbi Akiva Eiger not only taught Torah, he lived it as well. It was his custom to invite poor people to his Seder and treat them as honored guests and not mendicants. According to one story, a guest once accidentally spilled a cup of wine on the new white Pesach tablecloth. Seeing how embarrassed the poor man was, the Rabbi quickly knocked over his own cup and then announced, "It seems that the table is not very steady. He interpreted many parts of the liturgy and the Torah as warnings against false leaders - a topic of great importance to him given what was happening in Germany
1837: Birthdate of Russian Jew Joseph Rabinowitz.
1839(15thof Tishrei, 5600): Sukkoth
1842:Caroline A. Carvalho and Emanuel Nunes Carvalho gave birth to David Nunes Carvalho
1844(10thof Tishrei, 5605); Yom Kippur is observed for the last time during the Presidency of John Tyler, the first Vice President to become President following the death of the President.
1845: In New York, Abigail and Asher Kursheedt gave birth to Frederick Adolph Kursheedt.
1854(1stof Tishrei, 5615): Rosh Hashanah
1854: In Cleveland, Ohio, the Marshall arrested two men named Cohen and Freehart for stealing valuable silks from several stores. Both of them have been identified as English Jews.
1860(7thof Tishrei, 5621): Caroline Steckler, the second wife of California merchant Charles Steckler passed away today.
1863(10th of Tishrei, 5624): Yom Kippur
1863: Rabbi Samuel M. Isaacs delivered the Yom Kippur sermon at the synagogue on Wooster Street in NYC.
1863: Rabbi Jacob M. Raphall gave the Yom Kippur sermon at the Greene Street Synagogue in NYC
1863: Rabbi Samuel Adler delivered the Yom Kippur Sermon at Temple Emanu-El on 12thstreet in NYC.
1863: Rabbi J.J. Lyons delivered the Yom Kippur Sermon at the Nineteenth Street Synagouge.
1863: An article styled "Local Intelligence...The Yom Kippur" published today reported that
Last night commenced the most solemn festival known to the Jewish faith -- the Yom Kippur, or Day of Atonement. From the most ancient down to the present time, it has been religiously and strictly observed by them and the Solemn warrant for its celebration is found in Leviticus, xvi., 29, where Moses, by the express command of God, designates the formula the festival. The great fast of 24 hours duration, there prescribed, commenced last evening at sunset, and will continue until sundown to-day. This morning all the synagogues in the City will be thronged with worshippers. every orthodox Jew deeming it absolutely indispensable to go this day at least, if upon no other in the year, to the conventicle of his people, and with full confession, make solemn and earnest atonement for his sins during the past twelvemonth. This, too, is the only day on which, according to the ancient rite in Judea, even the high priest dared to enter the "holy of holies,'' the inner sanctuary of the temple.”
1864:“Hebrew congregation Shaaray Tefila, which for fourteen years past has occupied a house of worship in Wooster-street, dedicated a new synagogue this afternoon with the usual ceremonies of the Jewish ritual. The new edifice erected by this congregation is situated in Broadway, between Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth streets, and is in every way a suitable and comfortable building. The interior is fitted up with great taste and at considerable expense. The woodwork is grained in imitation oak. The altar, the ark and the veil are of beautiful workmanship, and elaborately ornamented with gold and silver bullion letters and embroidered. The service of dedication in the Hebrew church is very solemn and imposing. After the psalms had been chanted by an excellent German choir under direction of Mr. Woolf, and the prescribed passages of Scripture had been read, the priest and deacons carried the scrolls of the law, in procession, three times around the synagogue, finally depositing them in the ark. The services concluded with an impressive address by the Rev. S.M. Isaacs, minister of the congregation. The building was crowded by a large and attentive audience.”
1865: An association dedicated to building the first Jewish hospital in Philadelphia, PA was incorporated today.
1868:El Grito de Lares (The Cry of Lares), the first major revolt against Spanish rule and call for independence in Puerto Rico began today in Lares, Puerto Rico. Among the participants were Mathias Brugman and his son Hector who had formed a revolutionary committee code named: "Capa Prieto" (Black Cape). The revolt failed. The Spanish executed the Jewish revolutionaries who had refused to surrender to the authorities. Mathias Brugman was the son Pierre Brugman and Isabel Duliebre, two Dutch Jews who met and married in New Orleans where they raised their son. The family moved to Puerto Rico as part of the Spanish government’s attempt to get non-Hispanics to settle on the island. Brugman’s participation in the revolution was a product of his setbacks as a coffee grower and disgust with the abusive rule Spanish rule.
1871: As France continues to wrestle with the aftermath of the Paris Commune, it was reported today that an unidentified Jew has been passing himself off as a destitute refugee when in fact he had several hundreds of thousands of francs in his possession. This has led to speculation that he is working for the government as spy informing the authorities of the activities of the communists.
1873(2nd of Tishrei, 5634): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1875: Leyser Lazarus began serving as president of the Jewish Theological Seminary of Breslau. He succeeded the legendary Zacharias Frankel who had passed earlier in the year.
1876:Birthdate of Moshe Zvi Segal
1881(29th of Elul, 5641): Erev Rosh Hashahnah
1881: “The Jewish New Year” published today described the upcoming Jewish holiday season that begins with the start of “Rosh Hashono” this evening. Business will be almost entirely suspended among the Jewish community during these holidays; all will united in welcoming the new year in a becoming manner.”
1881: “Mourning For The Dead” published today described various plans to honor the late President Garefield including the plans of the “Young Men’s Hebrew Association to hold a memorial meeting in honor of the late President.”
1882(10th of Tishrei, 5643): Yom Kippur
1882: “The Fast of Yom Kippur” published today describes the importance of what “is regarded as the holiest day in the year.” While for most Jews “neither food nor drink of any kind is allowed to pass” their lips, “among Reformed Jews the fast is not so strictly kept.”
1883: A Jew named Henry Stern was reported today to have “swindled several persons at Asbury, NJ” including the cashier at the National Banking Company of Freehold and the owner of Patterson’s Opera House whom he convinced to cash fraudulent checks, one for $100 and the other for $80.(Obviously there has been a change in the idea of what constitutes a newsworthy financial crime in the last 100 years.)
1883: Mrs. P. J. Joachaimsen was elected today to serve as President of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society in New York City.
1883: “The Late Leon Halevy” published today, relying on information that first appeared in the Paris American Register described the death and career of the Leon Halevy, the son of playwright and novelist Ludvoic Halevy.
1884: In New York City, the family of Sarah Schuer received telegrams that had been sent the young bride and her new husband, Henry C. Friedman from Saratoga saying that they were on their way to Niagara Falls. The couple had eloped last night and had gone to Saratoga to solemnize their marriage. The bride is the 19 year old daughter of millionaire merchant Solomon Scheuer. The 28 year old groom is a member of the New York Mining stock and National Petroleum Exchange.
1884(4th of Tishrei, 5645): Sixty-seven year old Hermann Edler von Zeissi, the Austrian dermatologist who became an authority on skin diseases and syphilis while work at the General Hospital in Vienna passed away today.
1887: Birthdate of Max Drob the Polish-born Rabbi with a most distinguished lineage, who became one of the major leaders of the Conservative Movement, "making it a bridge between the excesses of Reform and the rigidity of Orthodoxy."
1887: Justice White presided over an unusual child custody case to at the Harlem Police Court. Mr. and Mrs. William Lee, an African American couple, and Mr. and Mrs. Hirsch Brodcki, a Jewish couple each claimed that a nine year old girl now known Annie is there daughter. According to the Brodcki, their daughter disappeared three years ago. According to the Whites the child was given them by an unwed African domestic whose father was a white.
1887(5th of Tishrei, 5648): Sixty-eight year old Samuel Rossin, a resident of New York who was head of S. Rossin & Sons, a tobacco importing firm passed away today while visiting his daughter in the Adirondack Mountains. A native of Bavaria who began his business in Toronto, he was a Director of the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews.
1888: “Jerusalem As A Trade Center” published today relies on information that first appeared in the London Times to provide a snapshot of conditions in Palestine. During the past year that in the past year exports from Jerusalem have exceeded imports, due in part to the good harvest in the area. Two thirds of the goods that pass through Jaffa go on to Jerusalem which has become a market center for the Bedouins and villages farther to the east. There has been a significant increase in the export of religious related art most of which goes to the United States and Europe. While Jewish immigration has been limited by new Turkish regulations, the price of land has increased significantly due to the arrival of so many Jews from abroad.
1889: A United States Deputy Marshall brought a prisoner before Immigration Commissioner Hitchcock in New York who will probably be deported if he proves to Simon Baruch, the Jewish swindler who is charged by Austrian authorities with making off with the equivalent of $150,000.
1889: Birthdate of Walter Lippmann. Born in New York City America
1890(9thof Tishrei, 5656): Erev Yom Kippur
1890: Anarchist Johann Most is scheduled to hold a mass meeting this evening at the Labor Lyceum on Myrtle Avenue for the purpose of mocking Yom Kippur and the Jewish religion.
1890: In Brooklyn, Captain Ennis of the 6th Precinct and 100 reserves to possession of the Labor Lyceum and locked the doors to prevent Anarchist Johann Most from delivering a speech attacking Yom Kippur using language that “very much shocked” Mayor Chapin
1890: A rabbi from a South Brooklyn congregation represented by Joel Krone will appear as plaintiff in a proceeding before the New York Supreme court seeking an injunction that will prevent Johann Most from holding a mass meeting tonight. Speaking on behalf of Orthodox Jews, he is basing the request on the part of the Penal Code making “it a misdemeanor for person to assemble in such a manner as is adapted to disturb the public peace” and another section that defines “a public nuisance any act which annoys, injures or endangers the comfort, repose, health or safety of any consider number of persons.”
1890: Jews in New Rochelle, NY will close their stores today in preparation for the observance of Yom Kippur.
1892(23rdof Tishrei, 5653): 2nd Day of Rosh Hashanah
1892: Four women died and untold hundreds more were injured when a fire broke out today at 27 Ludlow Street, a tenement building meant to hold 200 hundred people but that was filled with over a thousand Jews who were worshipping with one of the five congregations that were using the building for Rosh Hashanah services.
1892: For the second day in a row, the Erie Street congregation of Russian Jews held services in the assembly room of the new Young Men’s Christian Association building despite the fact that there were two crosses on the front of the building.
1892: According to statements by his son who is a physician, Dr. Gustav Gottheil, the rabbi at New York’s Temple Emanu-El is very sick and may be suffering from typhoid fever.
1892: A fire broke out on Ludlow Street that left so many Jewish victims Jacob H. Schiff and the United Hebrew Charities would take a leading role in collecting funds to aid them.
1893: Three Hebrew Anarchists – Carol Feldman (editor of the Freie Arbiter Stimme), Bernard Packman and Arthur Press were arraigned in the Essex Market Police Court for their role in a small riot sparked by their Anti-Yom Kippur Demonstration. Feldman was discharged but Press and Packman were each fined $10.
1893: Miss Clara Perry Thomas and David Solomon were married this evening by the rector of the Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Harlem after she had gained his release from the Bloomingdale Asylum over the objections of his family. They had asked Rabbi Maurice Harris of Temple Israel in Harlem but he refused.
1894: Birthdate of Benjamin V. Cohen, a member of the administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, had a public service career that spanned from the early New Deal through and beyond the Vietnam War era. He passed away 1983.
1894: “In all the synagogues” in New York the prayers offered before “the ten penitential days” known as Selicoth were offered today.
1895: In Paterson, NJ, a Russian Cossack riding the parade of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show attacked an 18 year old Jewish spectator, Bernard Benes, “severely lashing him” before being forced to stop several spectators.
1896: Clara, Baroness von Hirsch, widow of Baron Moritz von Hirsch, signs the first copy of her last will and testament.
1898: The Hebrew Infant Asylum of the City of New York was reported today to have purchased “a new home at 161st Street and Eagle Avenue” which it will soon be dedicating.
1899: Birthdate of Louise Nevelson, one of the most important American sculptors of the twentieth century
1899: Max Regis, the former Mayor Algiers and a notorious anti-Semite boarded a ship bound for Spain as he tries to escape from French authorities in North Africa who have arrested eight of his fellow anti-Semites.
1899: Three thousand Jews met tonight in Chicago where they heard Leon Zolotkoff who had been a delegate to the Congress at Basel, declare “Palestine will be secured to us and the Zionist will colonize it. The movement is under way, and I believe it will be a success.”
1899: “Mark Twain and the Jews” published today takes issue with the humorist’s paper on the Jews that was published in Harper’s Magazine in which he says that “Jews constitute but one per cent of the human race.” Reportedly there are seven million Jews in the world, meaning “they constitute less than one-half of l per cent” of the population. “Making due allowance for the number of Jews who conceal their religion Mark Twain’s estimate is twice as large as it should be.”
1901(10th of Tishrei, 5662): Yom Kippur takes on an extra solemnity as the nation mourns the recent death of President McKinley who died at the hands of an assassin.
1903(2nd of Tishrei, 5664): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1904: In Siauliai, Lithuania Nathan Menachem Schapiro and Fanny Adelman Schapiro gave birth to Meir Schapiro. When he came to the United States in 1907, a government worker at Ellis Island changed his name from Meir to Meyer. As Dr. Meyer Schapiro became a professor at Columbia University, a multi-disciplinary critic and historian, galvanic teacher, lifelong radical and a pre-eminent figure in the intellectual life of New York.
1907(15thof Tishrei, 5668): As a wave of foreign bank runs continue which will lead to the Panic of 1907 in the United States, Jews observe Sukkoth
1911(1st of Tishrei, 5672): Rosh Hashanah
1911: Arabs attacked Jewish worshipers in Jerusalem
1912: Anti-Jewish demonstrations took place in Sophia , Bulgaria
1914: In London, Baron Édouard Alphonse de Rothschild and his wife, the former Germaine Alice Halphen gave birth to Baroness Bethsabée de Rothschild
1914: “Peace Prayers in Chicago” published today described the prayerful response on Rosh Hashanah of the Jews in Chicago to the war raging in Europe.
1914: In Washington, “officials expressed the view that Russia’s reported modification of stringent regulations against the Jews because of their loyal to the Government in the present European war might pave the way for an understanding” that would lead to the signing of a new treaty of commerce and navigation between the two countries.”
1915(15thof Tishrei, 5676): As the French prepare to try and retake Champagne for a second time and Sukkoth and the British are fighting the Turks in Mesopotamia, the Jews observe Sukkoth.
1918: Five hundred British cavalrymen captured Haifa Acre , much to the joy of the Jews who must have sensed that each British victory brought the Balfour Declaration that much closer to implementation.
1919: Birthdate of Dr. Maurice M. Rapport, “a biochemist who helped isolate and name the neurotransmitter serotonin, which plays a role in regulating mood and mental states, and who first described its molecular structure, a development that led to the creation of a wide variety of psychiatric and other drugs..” (As reported by William Grimes)
1920: In Baghdad, Yaakov Ben and Gorgia Ovadia gave birth to Ovadia Yoset “the spiritual leader of the ultra-Orthodox Shas Party.” (As reported by Isabel Kershner)
1922(1stof Tishrei, 5683): Rosh Hashanah is observed for the last time during the Presidency of Warren G. Harding.
1926(15thof Tishrei, 5687): As Jews observe Sukkoth, Gene Tunney defeated Jack Dempsey to become world Heavyweight Champion
1927: U.S. Premiere of “Two Arabian Knights” an Oscar winning comedy directed by Lewis Mileston (Leib Milstein) and co-starring Louis Wolheim.
1928: An article entitled “Random Note on Summer Art Season in Paris,” describes the works of Ruben of Palestine whose works are on display at the Galerie Druet. His canvases capture secenes from Dan to Beersheba including paintings of the new towns (Tel Aviv) and old cities (Jerusalem, Safed and Jaffa.)
1928(9th of Tishrei, 5689): Erev Yom Kippur
1928: On the second day of the Massena (NY) Blood Libel, the state police questioned a Jew named Morris Goldberg about the disappearance of four year old Barbara Griffiths who had been reported missing yesterday. Goldberg was lacking in any real knowledge about his religion and may have left the police with the impression “that there might be some truth to the rumors that Jews engage in ritual murder. The police then interrogated Berel Brennglass, the rabbi at Adath Israel Synagogue “When asked about the allegations of ritual murder, Brennglass told the police and the town's mayor, who was present, that they should be ashamed for asking such questions. He expressed outrage that people believed such lies in the United States in the 20th century.” “Barbara Griffiths was found in the woods later that afternoon roughly a mile from her home. She told authorities she had become lost during her walk and slept in the forest. Nevertheless, some citizens of Massena continued to believe that Griffiths had been kidnapped by the Jews. They attributed her safe return to the discovery of the Jews' plot. The Massena blood libel drew national attention. Through the efforts of Rabbi Brennglass, the American Jewish Committee and the American Jewish Congress denounced the town's leaders, prompting apologies from the mayor and the state police to the rabbi, the town's Jews, and all Jews of the United States.In his apology, the mayor wrote:
In light of the solemn protest of my Jewish neighbors, I feel I ought to express clearly and unequivocally ... my sincere regret that by any act of commission or omission, I should have seemed to lend countenance ... to what I should have known to be a cruel libel imputing human sacrifice as a practice now or at any time in the history of the Jewish people. “
1929: Judge William M. Lewis national chairman of the United Palestine Appeal, who has just returned from Palestine, addressed the Men’s Brotherhood of the First United Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia. Judge Lewis expressed the belief that the turmoil was based in economics not religion. He told the attendees that “envy of Arab landowners” and not the Wailing Wall “is at the basis of the conflict between Arabs and Jews in Palestine…” “’the real trouble in Palestine is with the Arab landowners who still work their ground under the old feudal system with primitive methods... The Jews have introduced modern machinery and working conditions with the result that the Arab workers have shown dissatisfaction with their lot. Racial and religious hatred has been inflamed as a consequence.”
1930(1stof Tishrei, 5691): As the economy continues to spiral downward, Jews observe first Rosh Hashanah of the Great Depression.
1933(3rdof Tishrei, 5649): No fast since it is Shabbat Shuvah
1934: Outfielder Fred Sington made his major league debut with the Washington Senators.
1936 (7th of Tishrei, 5697) Meier Dizengoff, one of the founders of Tel Aviv and its first and only Mayor, passed away at the age of 75. Born in a village in Bessarabia where he received a typical Cheder/Yeshiva based education, Dizengoff moved to Kishineff with his parents and it is there he further his secular education at State run school. Dizengoff first went to Palestine in 1891 where he failed in an attempt to start a glass factory that was intended to provide bottles for wine grown in Eretz Israel. Dizengoff returned to Russia but left in 1905 when he made Aliyah. Dizengoff was one of those seemingly mythic figures who stood on a stand dune in 1909 and turned it into a modern metropolis that numbered 100,000 citizens on the day he passed away.
1936: A concentration camp opens at Sachsenhausen , Germany
1937: The Palestine Post reported that Palestinian Arabs indicated that they would refuse to Commission on Palestine
1938: Synagogues are burned to the ground in Cheb and Marienbad, ethnic-German towns in the Sudeten region of Czechoslovakia.
1938:Fritz Löhner-Beda was transferred to the Buchenwald concentration camp” where “together with his fellow prisoner Hermann Leopoldi, he composed the famous anthem of the concentration camp, Das Buchenwaldlied ("The Buchenwald Song"):
1939(10th of Tishrei, 5700): Yom Kippur
1939(10th of Tishrei, 5700): Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, died at the age of 83.
1939: On the Jewish Day of Atonement, Jews across Poland are publicly humiliated by SS troops: forced labor, coerced shavings of beards, destruction of property, beatings, and forced dancing. At Piotrków , Poland
1939: As the Nazis completed their conquest of Poland
1939: Polskie Radio was bombed by the Nazis today “shortly after broadcast the last Chopin recital played by Władysław "Wladek" Szpilman.”
1940: SS chief Heinrich Himmler authorizes a special SS Reichsbank account to hold gold (including gold extracted from teeth), silver, jewelry, and foreign currency stolen from interned Jews. The account is held by the fictitious "Max Heiliger."
1941(2nd of Tishrei, 5702): Rosh Hashanah
1941:Meir Binem (Beniek) Wrzonski arrived at the Lodz ghetto and found out that his father Noah Wrzonski had passed away earlier in the day.
1941: Gassing tests are conducted at Auschwitz .
1941: 3500 Jews unable to escape from Ejszyszki , Lithuania
1942: Over 2,000 Jews were deported from the "show ghetto" at Theresienstadt to the extermination camp of Maly Trostenents in the Soviet Union . Approximately 200,000 to 500,000 were murdered at the camp. There were no known survivors.
1942: Three of Sigmund Freud’s siblings – Regine Debora, Maria and Pauline Regine – were deported to Treblinka
1942(12th of Tishrei, 5703): Twenty-four year old Soviet poet Paul Davidovich Kagan was killed by the Germans while leading a reconnaissance mission.
1942(12th of Tishrei, 5703): Hundreds of Jews from Slovakia and 641 from France are gassed at Auschwitz.
1942(12th of Tishrei, 5703): At the Treblinka death camp, 10,000 Jews from Szydlowiec, Poland, are killed.
1942: British Home Secretary and Minister of Home Security Herbert Morrison opposed any further admission of Jewish immigrants into Britain Britain
1942:New Yorker cartoonist William Steig and Liza (Mead) Steig, head of the fine arts department at Lesley College gave birth to Jazz flutist Jeremy Steig.
1943: The Nazis liquidated the Vilna Ghetto. Eight thousand of the remaining 10,000 Jews were beaten, robbed and gathered in Rosa square. One thousand, six hundred were selected to go to the labor camps in Estonia
1943: Birthdate of Henk Brink son of Henk Drogt,a Dutch policeman who joined the resistance movement after being ordered to round up Jews. Drogt, who was executed by the Nazis in 1944, was already recognized as a hero by former U.S. Britain Netherlands Holland
1943: Birthdate of Ariel Zilber, the native of Tel Aviv who gained famed as a singer and songwriter who composed “Yes Din ViYesh Dayan (there is a judge and there is judgment)
1944: Warner Bros. released “Arsenic and Old Loss” a comedy with a screenplay by Julius and Philip Epstein with music by Max Stiener
1947(9thof Tishrei, 5708): Erev Yom Kippur – Jews hear Kol Nidre as the U.N. prepares to decide on the fate Palestine in its upcoming vote on partition.
1951: Shortstop Al Richter made his major league debut with the Boston Red Sox.
1951: Tonight, acting Egyptian minister of war Abd el-Fatha Hassahn charged Israel with unspecified violations in the area of Gaza on September 19. The minister would not specify the nature of the violation saying only that they “did not constitute ‘armed aggression.’”
1951: Today Menachem Begin was granted a six’s months leave of absence from his position as chairman of the Herut Party Center so that he can complete his studies for the upcoming bar examinations and complete a book on his World War II experiences focusing on his time in the Soviet Union.
1951(22nd of Elul, 5711): Eighty-four year old Mrs. Annie Nathan Meyer, chief founder and trustee of Barnard College, died today of a coronary thrombosis in her residence at the Hotel Croydon, 12 East Eighty-six Street.
1952:Agudat Yisrael and Poalei Agudat Yisrael left the coalition today shortly after disagreements over the conscription of women into the IDF leaving the government with only 60 of the 120 seats in the Knesset
1952: The Jerusalem Post reported that two Israeli soldiers were wounded by Jordanians. Infiltrators from Jordan stole animals and irrigation pipes in the Jerusalem Corridor during Yom Kippur.
1956: Shimon Peres met with French Defense Minister Bourges-Manouy to discuss increased shipment of French arms to Israel Egypt Syria Egypt Suez Canal which had been nationalized by Egyptian President Nasser.
1956(18th of Tishrei, 5717): A Jordanian soldier at a border post north of Bethlehem opened fired on a group of a hundred Israeli archaeologists who were examining the ancient ruins excavated at Rmat Rahal, the southernmost point of Jewish Jerusalem. Four of the archaeologists were killed. One of the four was the daughter in law of Golda Meir.
1959: In Newark, NJ, Ruth Minnie (née Simon), a nurse and health care administrator, and Alexander B. Greenspan, an accounting manager gave birth to Jay Scott Greenspan who gained fame as Jason Alexander best known for his portrayal of “George” on Seinfeld.
1960(2nd of Tishrei, 5721): In his first year in Washington, DC, Rabbi Stanley Rabinowitz delivered th sermon at Adas Israel on the Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1961: “Milk & Honey” finished its pre-Broadway run at the Colonial Theatre and headed for its opening in New York City.
1962: Leonard Bernstein led the inaugural concert of the New York Philharmonic in Philharmonic Hall (later renamed Avery Fisher Hall), Lincoln Center, NYC.
1964: The Paris Opera unveils a stunning new ceiling painted as a gift by artist Marc Chagall, who spent much of his life in France.
1968(1st of Tishrei, 5729): Rosh Hashanah
1968: Jewish students who notify the proper authorities at the University of Minnesota are excused from the opening day of classes which coincided with the Jewish New Year.
1972(15thof Tishrei, 5733): As McGovern and Nixon enter the last six weeks of the Presidential campaign, Jews observe Sukkoth.
1974: Birthdate of Oscar nominated director Joshua Lincoln Oppenheimer who “is a 2014 recipient of the MacArthur "Genius" Award”
1974: A Broadway revival of Gypsy – a product of Jule Styne, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents – opened at the Winter Garden
1978: American actor Jay Adler passed away today at the age of 81. He was the oldest child of Jacob and Sara Adler, leading actors in the Yiddish theatre. He was the brother the famous acting duo, Luther Adler and Stella Adler.
1979: An article entitled “What’s Doing in Tel Aviv” describes the various events planned for celebrating the 70th anniversary of the establishment of Israel’s largest city.
1983: NBC begins to broadcast the second season “Family Ties,” the sitcom created by Gary David Goldberg.
1987(29thof Elul, 5747): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1987: In Berlin, Isaac Newman became rabbi of the Rykestrasse Synagogue,
1990: Saddam Hussein announced that he would destroy Israel.
1991(15thof Tishrei, 5752): Sukkoth
1996(10thof Tishrei, 5757): Yom Kippur
2001: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest including The Popes Against the Jews: The Vatican's Role in the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism by David I. Kertzer, Canaries in the Mineshaft: Essays on Politics and Media by Renata Adler and Total Recallby Sara Paretsky
2003(26th of Elul, 5763): Simcha Dinitz, the Israeli ambassador to the United States during the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, who played a crucial but disputed role in arranging an airlift of American military supplies to Israel, passed away today in Jerusalem at the age of 74. (As reported by Paul Lewis)
2005:Tibor "Ted" Rubin a Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor, who immigrated to the United States in 1948, received the Medal of Honor today for his actions in the Korean War.
2005: Loretta Weinberg won another round in her court battle to have all the ballots counted in her race for a seat in the New Jersey State Senate when the Appellate Court ruled that the challenged votes should be counted.
2005: The Jerusalem Post reported that the price of lulavs may triple this year after Egypt, in an attempt to prevent damage to its date trees, prohibited the export of palm branches, causing a severe shortage.
2006 (Tishrei I, 5767): Rosh Hashanah
2006: Louisa.Schoenbuam, granddaughter of Dr. David and Tamara Schoenbaum makes her first appearance in the world. This is a real reason to sound the Shofar!
2007: The Sunday New York Times book section featured the following reviews of books with Jewish authors or Jewish subject matter: The Coldest Winter:America and the Korean WarbyDavid Halberstam, The Israel Lobby and U.S Foreign Policy by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt and and a study of the lives Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Tolkas entitled Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice by Janet Malcolm.
2007: The Sunday Washington Post book section section featured the following reviews of books with Jewish authors or Jewish subject matter: A Drive in the County by Michael J. Rosen, The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World by Alan Greenspan and The Coldest WinterAmerica and the Korean War by David Halberstam.
2007: Iran announced that Christine and Dan Levinson, the wife and oldest son of the imprisoned Robert Levinson would be allowed to visit the country – a trip they hope will help him gain his freedom.
2008: In Washington, D.C., the Chaim Kempner Author Series hosts a discussion with journalist Ariel Sabarfor his new memoir My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq.
2008: Thomas Friedman discusses and signs his new book, Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--And How It Can Renew America, at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, which is the original site of Adas Israel, the only Conservative Congregation in the Washington, D.C. city limits.
2008: A voting body of 150 rabbis and public servants convenes to vote for the Chief Rabbinate's governing council (moetzet harabanut harashit), the final authority on issues such as criteria for kosher supervision, deciding who is a Jew for the purpose of marriage and the appointment of new rabbis and marriage registrars.
2008:Russian archaeologists said they had found the long-lost capital of the Khazar kingdom in southern Russia AFP by telephone from Astrakhan State University after returning from excavations near the village of Samosdelka, just north of the Caspian Sea.
2008(23rd of Elul, 5768):Eighty-three year old Joel N. Bloom, “who in his 21 years as director of the science museum and planetarium at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia transformed a lackluster exhibition space into a bright and appealing one with hands-on experiments and walk-through exhibits, including a giant, pulsing human cell” passed away today. (As reported by Dennis Hevesi)
2009: The Center for Jewish History presents a lecture entitled “Lessons and Legacies in Holocaust Survivor Families: Innovations in the Investigation of Intergenerational Responses” in which Dr. Hannah Kliger, Pennsylvania State University, Abington College describes the findings from her research that show the contribution of new methodologies for studying communication about trauma within Holocaust survivor families.
2009: Sara Paretsky reads from and signs her new V.I. Warshawski novel, “Hardball,” at Barnes & Noble in Bethesda, MD
2009: The Virginia Tech Hillel sponsors a lecture entitled “Looking for Jessica: Picturing the Jewish Woman in English Medieval Art” during which Carlee Bradbury, Radford University art history professor talks about how Jewish women were looked at by Christians during the Middle Ages.
2009 Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is scheduled to meet with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today in New York.
2010(15th of Tishrei, 5771): Sukkoth I
2010: The first Kleztival is scheduled to open today in Sao Paulo. The event will mark the inauguration of the Instituto da Música Judaica Brasil, or Brazilian Jewish Music Institute.
2010: When They Come for Us, We'll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry by Gal Beckerman was published today
2011: The head of the Palestinian Authority presents its statehood bid to the Security Council and then addressed the General Assembly.
2011: Cantor Larry Paul and Robyn Helzner are scheduled to lead a Carlebach-inspired service at the Historic 6th& I Synagogue in Washington, DC followed by a communal Shabbat dinner.
2011:Jurors found 10 Muslim students guilty today of disrupting a lecture by the Israeli ambassador at a California university in a case that stoked a spirited debate about free speech. Jurors delivered the verdicts in Orange County Superior Court in the case involving a speech by Ambassador Michael Oren in February 2010 at the University of California, Irvine.
2011: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said today that the Palestinians must first make peace with Israel, and only after get their state, during his address to the UN General Assembly in New York.
2011:The IDF announced that forces on the Israel-Egypt border had been placed on high alert after threats were received that Hamas was planning terror activity in the area, the IDF spokesman's office stated.
2011: Israel responded positively today, and the Palestinians negatively, to a formula for restarting negotiations issued by the Quartet that would place a December 2012 deadline on reaching an agreement
2012: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors or of special interest to Jewish Readers including All Gone: A Memoir of My Mother’s Dementia: With Refreshments by Alex Witchel and the recently released paperback edition of The Escape Artists: How Obama’s Team Fumbled the Recovery by Noam Scheiber.
2012: The headstone unveiling for Sue Katz, of blessed memory, the wife of Bert Katz, an honored pillar of the Cedar Rapids Jewish community, is scheduled to take place this afternoon at Eben Israel Cemetery.
2012:Rabbi Alana Suskin and Rabbi Moshe Faierstein are scheduled to lead a study session on Yom Kippur at Tikvat Israel in Rockville, MD
2012: The YIVO Institute for Jewish Present is scheduled to commemorate the lost Jewish community of Vilna at the Nusakh Vilne Memorial Lecture and Concert
2012: Hundreds of mourners arrived in Modi'in early this morning to participate in the funeral of IDF Corporal Netanel Yahalomi, who was killed along the Egyptian border the day before yesterday. The 20-year-old Artillery Corps soldier was shot in the head by terrorists as he and his unit was reportedly giving water to African migrants who had arrived on the border. A second soldier was wounded in the attack. (As reported by Yaakov Lappin)
2012(14th of Tishrei, 5773): Erev Sukkoth
2012: Jewish Musical Tradition Echoes Through Ages by Jon Kalish
2012(14th of Tishrei, 5773): Eighty-nine year old gerontologist Dr. Reubin Andres passed away. (As reported by Leslie Kaufman)
2013: In Washington, DC, the Historic Sixth & I Synagogue is scheduled to host Café Night which will including “Basics and Beyond or Crash Course in Hebrew Reading” and class on “Your Adult Bar or Bat Mitzvah”
2013: Israeli pianist Roman Rabinovich and the Jupiter musicians are scheduled to perform work by several Czech composers at the Good Shepherd Church in NYC.
2013: At the Haifa Military Cemetery hundreds of mournours including comrades from the Givati Brigade attened the funderal of Tirat Harcamel native Sgt. Gal Gabrial who had been murdered yesterday by a Palestinian terrorists as he stood guard over a group of Jews who had gone to Hebron as part of their celebration of Sukkoth.
2013: Today Lithuania marked 70 years since Nazi Germany wiped out the Vilnius ghetto, all but obliterating the vibrant Jewish culture of a capital once known as the "Jerusalem of the North".
2014: “The House of Rothschild,” “Gentleman’s Agreement,” “Crossfire” and “Focus” are scheduled to be shown this evening when TCM presents the fourth in its series “the Jewish Experience on Film.”