This Day, September 5, In Jewish History in Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
September 5
394:
Battle of Frigidus between Emperor Theodosius who ruled the eastern Roman
Empire and Eugenius, ruler of the western part of the empire. Theodosius’
victory brought the two halves of the empire back under on ruler for one last
time. This is viewed as battle between Christianity (Theodosius) and a
resurgence of pagan worship (Eugenius). The victory did ensure Christianity’s
hold on the Roman Empire, much to the detriment of the Jewish people. But
Theodosius was not anti-Semitic or particularly opposed to the Jewish people.
For example, in 388 when a Christian mob burned a synagogue in a town on the
banks of the Euphrates River. Since the local bishop had had a hand in the
arson, the governor was afraid to act and turned to Theodosius for help. The
Emperor “reprimanded” the governor and ordered the official “to demand that the
bishop build a new synagogue.” By now, though, the Church had gained so much
power that Ambrose, the bishop of Milan, “forced the emperor to publicly
withdraw his orders.”
1187: Birthdate of Louis VIII of France whose attempts to exploit the Jews for
his personal gain brought him into a major conflict with Theobald IV the
powerful Count of Champagne, who had his plans for extorting money from his
Jewish subjects.
1236:
“In a letter written to the archbishop of Bordeaux, Pope Gregory IX expressed
his outrage at the ant-Jewish atrocities perpetrated in France” and “issued
orders to several archbishops and bishops of southwestern and western France to
compel the crusaders to make good the losses the Jews had suffered at their
hands.” (Jewish Virtual Library)
1236:
Pope Gregory IX sent a “Request to Louis IX, king of France, to punish the
crusaders, murderers and despoilers of the Jews, and to compel them to make
restitution.”
1288: Nicolas IV issued “Turbato corde,” a papal bull that dealt with the
conversion of Christians to Judaism. Any Jew thought to be involved in such an
action could be held by the authorities who could confiscate their property,
among other penalties.
1319:
Birthdate of Peter IV of Aragon during whose reign the “Ordinance of the Jews
of the Crown of Aragon” was adopted.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1354ordinance-aragon-jews.asp
http://www.sephardicstudies.org/ordinance.html
1566: Suleiman the Magnificent passed away.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0019_0_19345.html
1638:
Birthdate of the Sun King, Louis XIV of France. During his long reign the
French monarch’s towards the Jews vacillated based primarily on economic need.
But in the end, the real Louis shone through when “he ordered the Jews ‘to
leave the kingdom without any belongs,’ and told the local officials to take
any and all means to expel Jews ‘because that is our wish.’”
1654: Twenty-three Sephardic Jews, seeking sanctuary from the Spanish
Inquisition, arrive in New Amsterdam [New York], from Pernambuco, Brazil. They
had arrived at their final destination on the ship St. Catherine (also referred
to in the literature as the St. Charles).
1708:
In Lisbon, Portugal, Abraham Mendes Seixas and Abigail Mendes Seixas gave birth
to Isaac Mendes Seixas who would settle in Newport, Rhode Island.
1708: In Lisbon, Portugal, Abigail M. Seixas and Abraham Mendes Seixas gave
birth toe Isaac Mendes Seixas, the husband of Rachel Franks Levy whom he
married at New York in 1740 and with whom he had nine children.
1725:
King Louis XV of France married Maria Leszczyńska. Jews may well have taken
part of the wedding celebrations since Louis XV had publicly guaranteed the
rights of the Jews living in southern France when he came to throne in 1723.
This change in policy from his father Louis IV may have been the result of
110,000 livres payment made in honor of “the joyous event of his Majesty’s
coronation.”
1726:
In New York City, Moses Raphael Levy and Grace Mears gave birth to Benjamin
Levy.
1736: Many leading Jews of Posen, Poland were imprisoned and tortured a
following blood libel.
1738:
Solomon Mendes wrote to Thomas Birch that will have “defer” their proposed
journey.
1764:
In Berlin, Esther and Benjamin de Lemos gave birth to Henriette Herz née De
Lemos, the emancipated Jewess who converted after the death of her husband.
1766(2nd
of Tishrei, 5527): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah observed for the first time
since Parliament adopted the Declaratory Act which was one of the steps that
led to the American Revoltuion.
1774(29th of Elul, 5534): Erev Rosh Hashana
1781: During the American Revolution, General George Washington rode into
Chester, a town on Chesapeake Bay where he found out that French Admiral de
Grasse had arrived with his fleet; a decisive event in defeating Cornwallis
made possible because Admiral Sir George Rodney had opted to continue looting
St. Eustatius where he displayed an anti-Semitic animus toward the Jewish merchants
instead of intercepting the French Fleet as he had been ordered to do.
1783:
In Charleston, SC, Moses Cohen and Judith De Lyon gave birth to Rinah Cohen.
1784:
Birthdate of Reinah Abrahams, the daughter of Emanuel Abrahams who was the wife
of David Mordecai and the mother of Moses, Isaac, Zipporah and Reinah Cordelia
Mordecai.
1785(1st
of Tishrei, 5564) Rosh Hashanah observed as John Adams serves his first term as
U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom and Thomas Jefferson served his first
term as U.S. Ambassador to France
1789:
In New York City, Jacob Naphtali Hart and Leah Nathan gave birth to Zipporah
Hart.
1791:
Birthdate of Giacomo Meyerbeer. Born Jacob Liebmann Beer, Meyebeer was a
successful German- born composer for opera. Unlike some of his contemporaries,
Meyerbeer saw no need to give up his Judaism to gain artistic success. He
passed away in 1864.
http://www.meyerbeer.com/whois.htm
1793: In the wake of the French
Revolution, The Reign of Terror began today during which Alsatian born Jewish
businessman and philanthropist Herz Cerfbeer of Medelsheim (Naphtali Ben
Von-Geer) was imprisoned for a year on charges that he had been a supporter of
the Ancien Regime.
1797:
Simon Medex married Elle Cert in Eysden, Holland.
1800: Malta was conquered by Great Britain. According to legend the Jewish
community on Malta began over 3,000 years ago when members of the tribes of
Zebulon and Asher arrived on the island with the Phoenicians. The Jewish
community of Malta had its ups and downs over the centuries. The British
conquest found the community at an “up point.” In 1789, Napoleon had conquered
Malta on his way to Egypt and Palestine bringing the French laws abolishing
slavery and establishing liberty and equality for all to the citizens of Malta
including the Jewish population.
1804(29th
of Elul, 5565): Erev Rosh Hashana
1807:
After twenty days, the British bombardment of Copenhagen, during which 24 year
old Ludwig Lewin Jacobson “served as a military surgeon at the lazaretto of the
Freemasons’ academical lodge” came to an end following which the Danish Jewish
surgeon obtained permission to “inspect the British field-hospitals” as a
matter of scientific inquiry.
1807:
The Battle of Copenhagen, which destroyed the family property Danish Poet
Henrik Hertz who had been raised by the newspaper M.L. Nathanson after the
death of his father, came to an end
1810:
John Pesman married Esther Capua at the Great Synagogue today.
1811:
In Frankfurt am Main David Philipp Schloss and Malchen Schloss gave birth to
Adelheid Goldschmidt the wife of Herz Simon Goldschmidt.
1816: Louis XVIII has to dissolve the Chambre introuvable (“Unobtainable
Chamber”). Jews remember Louis XVIII as the French monarch who would not
renew the rights the Jewish people had won under the Republic and Napoleon thus
forcing them to revert to the status they “enjoyed” prior to the French
Revolution.
1816:
Five years after being appointed rabbi at Glogua a royal rescript was issued
making him chief district rabbi at Breslau, a position he held until his death
in 1820.
1818(4th
of Elul, 5578): Joseph Haltern “who wrote ‘Esther,’ a Hebrew adaptation of
Racine’s drama of the same name” passed away today in Berlin.
1823(29th
of Elul, 5584): Erev Rosh Hashana
1825:
In Amsterdam, Sara da Costa and Isaac David Levie Montezinos gave birth to
David Levy Montezinos, the husband of Abigail Levy Montezinos.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/montezinos-david
1828:
In Charleston, SC, Henry Hyams, the London born son of Rebecca and Solomon M. Hyams,
and his wife Judith Hyams gave birth to future Mississippi resident Mordecai Hyams, the husband of Josephine Hyams
with whom he had eight children.
1832:
Birthdate of Austrian native Anna Kanner who became Anna Zeisler when married
Ignatz Zeisler with whom she had two sons, Joseph Zeisler and Northwestern trained attorney Sigmund
Zeisler.
1838:
In Amsterdam, Hester Goudsmit, the “daughter of Levie Emanuel Goudsmit and
Magdalena Hartog Goudsmit” and her husband Salomon Abraham van Raalte gave
birth to
Margaret
/ Margaretha van Raalte,
1841:
In Edinburgh, Scotland Sidney and Nancy Hart Aloe gave birth to Albert Sidney
Aloe who in 1856 came to the United States where he worked as a building
engineer before settling in St. Louis
where opened a string of optical goods stores and married Isabella Prince/
1842(1st
of Tishrei, 5603): Rosh Hashanah observed for the second time during the
Presidency of John Tyler, the first person to become chief executive because of
the death of the sitting president.
1848: The Jews of Hanover, Germany, were granted equality.
1848:
Nassereddin Shah Qajar, whose personal doctor was Bohemian born Jewish
physician Jakob Eduard Polak, began his reign as King of Persian today.
1853:
Sixty-nine-year-old Georges Bernard Depping, the author of Les Juifs dans le moyen âge, essai historique sur leur état civil,
commercial et littéraire (History of the Jews during the Middle Ages) which
was written in an attempt to win a prize offered by the French Royal Academy
“for a work describing the condition of the Jews in France during the medieval
period” passed away today.
1858(26th
of Elul, 5618): Sixty-three-year-old “Austrian satirical writer and journalist
Moritz Gottlieb Saphir uttered his final words “Now all is over, I have to
go” as he passed away today at Baden.
1859: “Quarrel Over a Jewish Bible” published today described a dispute over
ownership of a Bible by the Jews of Troy, NY. On one side is led by a tailor
named Herman Levy, a Jewish tailor, Julius Lawrence, his son-in-law. Levy
claimed to have bought the Bible for $34 in 1858. His opponents claim that they
paid $80 for it eleven years ago. The disputants came to blows and Levy was
twice imprisoned – first on charges of assault; second on charges of perjury
for having lied about his claim to the sacred text.
1860:
Lewis Hart married Elizabeth Hart today at the New Synagogue.
1861(1st of Tishrei, 5622): Rosh Hashanah finds Jews wearing Blue and Gray
facing each other across the battle lines of the Civil War.
1861:
In Prague, Leopold and Sofie Sara Pick gave birth to Franziska Fanny Kun /Kohn
1865:
In New York City, Betty Loeb and Salomon gave birth to their daughter Guta who
married Isaac Seligman making her Guta Seligamn
1865: In New York City, “J. Daniel and Fannie (Marshuetz) Mayer” gave birth to
Columbia Law School graduate Julius M. Mayer, the Attorney General for the
State New York and U.S. District Court Judge.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1925/12/02/100033844.pdf
1865: It was reported today the Mr. R. J. De Cordova, the humorist and author,
has lately received a legacy from a deceased relative in England, amounting to
quite a fortune. It is to be presumed, therefore, that Mr. C. will have no
further occasion to be amusing. [The presumption was in error since Mr. De
Cordova, who was Jewish remained humorous and popular.]
1867:
Birthdate of Russian native and future New Yorker Max Mayerson, the husband of
Annie Jacobs Mayerson with whom he had three children – Samuel, Harry and
Roslyn.
1869(29th of Elul, 5629): Erev Rosh Hashana observed for the first
time during the Presidency of U.S. Grant.
1870: It was reported today that a group of German Jews in Philadelphia have
just finished building a new synagogue.
1872: The investigation of the mistreatment of the passengers aboard the SS
Charles H. Marshall, which included numerous Jewish immigrants from Russia, was
scheduled to continue today at Castle Garden, NY.
1874(23rd
of Elul, 5634): Parashat Nitzavim-Vayeilech; Leil Selichot
1874(23rd
of Elul, 5634): Seventy-one-year-old Mary Ann Knapp Ancona, the Newburgh, NY
born daughter of Silas and Bathsheba Knapp and the wife of Moses Montefiore
Acona passed away today after which she was buried in Reading, PA.
1875: In
Hungary, Leah Lichtmann and Rabbi Morris Wechsler gave birth to CCNY alum and
NYU trained attorney Martin Wechsler, the husband Nellie Waldman with whom head
two children – Leah and Daniel – and vice president of Congregation Tifereth
Israel in Brooklyn, president of the
Flatbush Jewish Center and vice president of the United Synagogue of America.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1942/07/20/88110403.html?pageNumber=13
1876: Birthdate of Silesian born journalist turned movie producer Lothar Stark
who was among the Jews living in Denmark that was saved during the Holocaust by
being spirited away to Sweden.
1877:
In Cincinnati, OH, Amelia Hyman and Emile Kahn gave birth to University of
Cincinnati and College of Music award
winning graduate Cora Kahn, the instructor in public speaking at HUC and drama
class instructor at the Wise Center at Cincinnati’s Plumb Street Temple.
1878:
It was reported that Thomas Fallon, a Roman Catholic, and his wife, a 15 year
old Jewess named Rachel Cohen have gone to live in their home on Baxter Street,
after a judge had dismissed the complaint by the bride’s father, Lowenthal
Cohen that the girl had been kidnapped and not married.
1879: It was reported today that the Skuptschina, the National Assembly of
Serbia, which was supposed to settle the issue of Jewish emancipation will not
be meeting as scheduled. This has led to speculation that the so-called great
powers of Europe will bring pressure on the Serbian cabinet to resolve the
issue.
1880(29th
of Elul, 5640): Erev Rosh Hashana
1880:
“The Passion Play at Ober-Ammergau” published today gives a detail description
of the performance the anti-Semitic drama.
1880:
It was reported today Baron Sunzburg is the President of the “society for the
diffusion of Jewish knowledge among the Jews of Russia.” The society supported 25 schools and supplied
“various…libraries, societies, and writers” with a variety of Jewish
literature.
1881: Alfred Marks, alias Charles Sarridge, a handsome well-dressed Jewish
“flim flam” man whose con involves getting merchants to change his larger bills
for smaller ones was arrested in New York City today.
1881:
“State Affairs In Europe” published includes a description of conditions in
Russia where the anti-Jewish riots are seen as “the prelude to other
disorders. The attacks on the Jews of
Kiev and Tchernigoff are “chronic” and
the authorities “do not even attempt” to bring them to an end. Eventually, “the nineteenth century will
witness a return to the ages of barbarism in Russia.”
1882:
The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City. While Jews
have been active in the American labor movement for more than a century, Labor
Day has taken on a new meaning for at least some Jews. Labor Day weekend is the
now the time when the The Ball – “biggest Jewish singles event of the year” –
takes place.
1882:
In New York, the Board of Health heard a report from its inspectors the
building occupied by the female department of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum which is
home to 125 children is not connected to a sewer system. After hearing Mr. Myer Stern’s statement that
the Asylum has not had any response from the Department of Public Works to its
application for sewer connection, the board adopted a resolution asking the
Department of Public Works to cooperate with the Jewish organization in this
matter.
1883:
Birthdate of Kiev native Harry Rosenberg, the business partner of Isaac Rudolph
and the husband of anna Mahel who in 1901 came to Montreal before eventually
settled in Reading, PA where he has a successful iron and metal business and
supports numerous Jewish organizations including the Farm School of
Philadelphia and the Immigration Society of New York.
1884:
It was reported today that at Coventry the fundraising effort to restore St.
Michael’s Church has been an ecumenical affair with Jewish citizens having
contributed to the $130,000 raised so far.
1884:
“Paupers Coming Back” published today described plans to send 3,000 Jewish
immigrants from Romania to the United States that are being organized by Edward
A. David on behalf of Romanian bankers.
1885:
It was reported today that a figure of Sir Moses Montefiore will be added to
the large collection at Eden Musee.
1885:
Birthdate of Long Branch, NJ native and NYU Law School graduate Montifiore
Grant Kahn, “a consulting economist and adviser to immigrants in New York who
got in trouble when it was discovered he had overstated the acreage of a plot
of land he gave to the American Immigration and Distribution League and who
“pleaded guilty to smuggling forty
thousand dollars’ worth of gems into” the United States.
1886:
As New York experiences a series of strikes amongst various trade groups, 700
Jewish tailors are schedule to go on strike today which is Sunday, the first
day of their workweek.
1886:
In New York Rosalie Jacobs and Leonard Lewisohn gave birth to Irene Lewisohn
“the founder of the Neighborhood Playhouse and the Museum of Costume Art who
was the sister of Alice Lewisohn.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9A0CEED61F3CEE3BBC4D53DFB266838F659EDE
1888(29th
of Elul, 5648): Erev Rosh Hashana observed for the last time during the
Presidency of Grover Cleveland.
(Cleveland is the only split term president who won re-election after
losing his attempt to get re-elected in 1888)
1888:
In Hurley, WI, Rachel Wolfe and Casper Lewis gave birth to University of Chicago trained attorney and
realtor Leon Lawrence Lewis the husband of Ruth Lowenberg who was the executive
secretary of the of the Anti-Defamation League for twelve years, the founder
and first editor the B’nai B’rith Magazine while being “active in all Jewish
philanthropic, educational and charitable movements in Chicago.”
1889:
In Warsaw, Poland, Sam and Adela (Newmark) Grossbard gave birth University of
Colorado trained electrical engineer Sol Grossbard, the General Electric
employee who went on to serve as the
vice president of the Hus Sheng Trading Company in Shanghai and a member of the
Chinese-American Engineering Association.
1889:
In New York Judge Van Hoesen was scheduled to rule on motions related to a
squabble between S.D. Levy and Alexander S. Rosenthal, the lawyers involved in
the divorce proceedings between Simon and Anne Weinstein which have lasted for
more than 5 months. (All of the parties are Jewish except the Judge.)
1889(1st
of Tishrei, 5660): Rosh Hashanah
1889:
In “Bella, Czechoslovakia,” Jacob and Charlotte Newgeboren Drachsler gave birth
to Julius Drachsler, who, at the age of 14 came to the United States where he
earned a BS at CCNY and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia after which he became
an Assistant Professor of Sociology and CCNY and wrote Democracy and
Assimilation and Intermarriage in New York City.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/253331
1889:
In Vilan Edna Rayman and Samuel Nathanson gave birth to Jonas Bernard Nathanson,
the husband of Rose Marbleston, who in 1896 came to the United States earned a
Ph.D. at Ohio State, taught at Carnegie Tech and authored such works as The
Reflecting Power of the Alkali Metals.
https://archive.org/details/reflectingpowero00nath
1890:
In Bialystok, Louis Leib Surazski Zuro, the son of Arke (Aaron) Surazski and
Pesza Sourasky and his wife “Leah Sourasky
gave birth to William “Wolf” Zuro
1890:
In the Czech part of the Austria-Hungary Empire, Jacob and Charlotte Newgeboren
Drachsler gave birth to Julius Drachsler who, at the age of 14 came to the
United States where he earned a BS at CCNY and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia
after which he became an Assistant Professor of Sociology and CCNY and wrote Democracy
and Assimilation and Intermarriage in New York City
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/253331
1890:
As of today, Adolph Eisner who has been Superintendent of the Hebrew Orphan
Asylum for the past six years has been missing for over a week amidst
allegations about his “conduct toward several young girls in his charge.” However, a committee has investigated the
charges and said that at worse he “had been very indiscreet in his language to
some of the older girls.”
1891:
Mr. Bauman who runs a training school for people working the garment industry
financed by the Baron Hirsch Fund and managed by the United Hebrew Charities
denied charges that his trainees were taking jobs away from experienced
workers. He said that if the immigrants
were not trained they would become peddlers or go out without work. He said that his trainees could not compete
with experienced workers because the latter were not as skilled, and the school
did everything it could to send its graduates to work in cities outside of New
York.
1892:
Birthdate of Hungarian born violinist Joseph Szigeti
1892:
“Rabbi Sonnenschein’s Problems” published today described the marital problems
of prominent St. Louis Rabbi Solomon H. Sonnenschein who is seeking a divorce
from his wife Rosa who is currently in Chicago and has announced her attention
to cross file. (While may not know their
names today, they were a Jewish Power Couple, and she would go to found The American Jewess.)
1892:
The body of an unidentified Jewish peddler thought to be a cousin of Harris
Glckman was found in New Utrecht
1893:
In Norma, NJ, “Yocheved Perski and Aaron Rovine gave birth to Sarah Rovine, the
future wife of Abraham Brodsky.
1893:
It was reported today that Herr Paasch the “notorious anti-Semite” who
persistently attacks government officials for “showing a leaning toward the
Jews” “has been pronounced a dangerous lunatic and has been sent to an asylum.”
1893:
A hearse containing the body of a Jewish infant under the care of undertake
Solomon Goodman and driven by Moses Bernstein and David Rich was struck by a
trolley in Brooklyn on its way to the Hebrew Cemetery at Flatbush.
1894:
Wolf Siegel petitioned Judge McAdam to issue a writ of mandamus ordering the
“Society Chevia Gwat Aushi Poland” reinstate him as a member. Siegel claimed he
had been dismissed from the organization because he trimmed his beard, a claim
denied by the Society.
1894:
“Kaybles War On Jews” published today described the attacks by this tribe of
Berbers on Jews living in several communities in Morocco where the synaogues
have been looted, men tortured and killed and the children “outraged and sold
into slavery.”
1895:
John Reilly and Patrick Finn were arrested and jailed today for having attacked
Cohen Friedman
1897:
The Hebrew Free School Association sponsored a free entertainment for 500
children at the Education Alliance Building at East Broadway and Jefferson
Street.
1897:
Birthdate of Morris Carnovsky, the St. Louis native whose acting career was
interrupted by being placed on the infamous “blacklist.”
1897(8th
of Elul, 5657): Thirty-year-old Abraham Moss fell from his bicycle in Brooklyn
today and died.
1897:
“A Jewish State in Palestine an Impossibility” based on information that
originally appeared the American
Israelite provided Rabbi Isaac M. Wise’s reasons why the conflict between
religion and rationalism would doom Dr. Herzl’s dream of creating a Jewish
state Palestine.
1898:
Comte de Bejon de Larouziere who just arrived in New York from France where he
has watched events concerning the Dreyfus Affair first hand said that it did
not matter if Colonel admitted that the letter used against Dreyfus was a
forgery, there would never be a rehearing of the case because “the
aristrocratic element and great masses of Frenchmen would be opposed to it;”
that there would be a revolution if a new trial were granted while no
revolution will take place if a new trial is not granted and that the leaders
of the French military are against a new trial.
1898:
A despondent Polish Jew who had been swindled by Peter Brume is hospitalized at
St. Mary’s Hospital after having tried to drown himself by jumping off the bow
of a ferry boat.
1899(1st
of Tishrei, 5660): Rosh Hashanah is observed for the last time in the 19th
century.
1899:
Dr. Rudolph Grossman will deliver a Rosh Hashanah sermon entitled “What Does It
Mean to Be a Jew?”
1899:
Congregants at Temple Beth-El will hear a sermon entitled “The Kingdom of God.”
1899:
At B’nai Jeshurun, Rabbi S.S. Wise will deliver a sermon entitled “New Year
Thoughts and New Year Hopes.”
1899:
In Rennes, during the second Dreyfus trial, the court did not hear testimony
from a Serbian expatriate testifying for the Prosecution because it spent most
of the day reviewing an “espionage dossier” in a secret session.
1900:
Birthdate of Muscovite filmmaker Yelizaveta Svilova, “lifelong collaborator and
wife of Dziga Vertov” and sister-in-law of cinematographer Mikhail Kaufman who
in own right was most famous for her filming of the liberation of Auschwitz and
the creation of a documentary about the Holocaust using that footage.
1900:
Herbert Stern, 1st Baron Michelham, the son Hermann, Baron de Stern and Julia
Goldsmid and his wife Aimee Geraldine Bradshaw gave birth to Herman Alfred Stern, 2nd Baron Michelham
http://www.npgprints.com/image/1130837/bassano-ltd-herman-alfred-stern-2nd-baron-michelham
1900:
Birthdate of Polish born Canadian Jewish writer Shmuel-Leyzer Abello.
http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2015/12/shmuel-eliezer-abello.html
1901:
Today, President William McKinley who had been overwhelming supported by Jews
when he ran against Williams Jennings Bryan addressed the people attending the
Pan-American Exposition on “President’s Day.”
1902:
Eighty-year-old award-winning German scientist Rudolf Carl Virchow who
“attempted to provide a rationale for the sense of Jewish acculturation” (in
Germany) but who “still assumed that Jews were a separate and distinct racial
category” passed away today.
1902: In a letter to Wenzel von Plehve Herzl reports on the just completed
meeting of the Zionist Congress
1902: Birthdate of Darryl F Zanuck Hollywood producer and motion picture
executive. Zanuck was not Jewish. He was of Greek ancestry. But he made the
Academy Award winning film Gentlemen’s Agreement. Filmed in 1947, this
controversial movie dealt with the subject of anti-Semitism in the United
States; not the goose-stepping, brown-shirted variety of the Nazis, but the
culturally accepted American variety of quotas and “the unwritten,
gentlemen’s agreement” that Jews should be excluded from certain clubs, hotels,
business opportunities, law firms, etc. Jewish film makers at Warner Brothers
and MGM did not want Zanuck to make this movie. They knew how real certain
forms of anti-Semitism were and they feared a backlash. They also cautioned
Zanuck that in the unsettled political environment of the late 1940’s, such a
film might be detrimental to his career. Their fears proved to be unfounded as
Gregory Peck gave one his signature performances and helped the film win three
Oscars.
1903: It was reported today that in Australia, Solomon Cohen, “the managing
director of Cohen and Co Ltd” “obtained a divorce decree nisi from his wife.”
1904:
M.N.Leve, the President of the Alliance Israelite said today “the reforms which
the Czar has proclaimed for the amelioration of the condition of the Russian
Jews, said the new regulations were little more than a hint of a better
disposition.”
1904:
Miami, FL. Realtor Isidore Cohen the Bialystock born son of Pearl Bashinsky and
Lazarus Cohen, who was “one of the founder Congregation Beth David, the first
synagogue in Miami married Ida Hershkowitz today.
1905:
The Russo-Japanese War comes to an end with the signing of the Treaty of Portsmouth.
President Theodore Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end
the fighting. In additional to the Medal, there was a cash award four thousand
dollars some of which TR donated to the Jewish Welfare Board. Today’s Japanese victory was due, in part of
the efforts of loans made by Jewish financers to Japan which made it possible
for the Empire of the Rising Sun to buy the munitions needed for victory. As a
result of the loan that Jacob Schiff procured for Japan through Kuhn, Loeb
& Co, the Jewish financier received the Japanese Order of the Sacred
Treasure and the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star which he
received from Emperor Meiji in the Imperial Palace. One can only wonder if Schiff’s efforts were
driven, in part, by the vicious anti-Semitism of the Czarist regime. On the other hands, Joseph Trumpeldor, who
would become one of the early heroes of the Zionist movement, was a highly
decorated soldier serving in the Russian Army who lost his arm during the
ill-fated fight at Port Arthur. (Jewish
history is never a simple affair)
1905:
In Budapest, Henrik Koestler and Adela Jeiteles Koestler gave birth to Arthur
Koestler. Koestler was a journalist and
author who wrote about everything from Communism to the origins of European
Jewry to Yoga and Zen Buddhism. His life is so richly textured that it reads
like a character out of a piece of fiction. Two of his most famous works are Darkness
at Noon and The God That Failed, which deal with his disillusionment
with Communism, a doctrine he had embraced before World War II. He wrote at least
three books dealing with Jewish topics. Thieves in the Night was based
on his experiences living on Kibbutz before the war. Promise and Fulfillment
is a history of Palestine from the Balfour Declaration to the founding of the
state of Israel. Thirteenth Tribe is based on the Khazars and Koestler’s
belief that most European Jews are descended from them. Koestler suffered from
Leukemia and Parkinson’s Disease and passed away under tragic circumstances in
1983.
1906:
As of today, “the governors of the principal towns and provinces of Russia have
been instructed not to permit Jews, Poles or Armenians to carry arms.”
1906:
The “shochtim” who belong to the 90 member Shechter Union led by Jacob
Roberwitz went on strike today in a battle over their system for compensation
which means that “Orthodox Jews on the East Side and in Brooklyn will dine
without chicken” until the matter is resolved.
1906:
Today, “Premier Stolypin and Council of Ministers in Russia” issued an official
communication containing the government’s program” that included “an article
promising the immediate abolition of useless restrictions on the Jews.
1906:
Today, in Russia, The Council of Ministers sanctioned “the plan permitting the
Jews to open elementary and secondary schools under the same conditions as the
adherents of other creeds.”
1907:
“Want Holiday Cards Mailed Early” published today described special requests
made by Postmaster Morgan for Jews to mail their holiday day cards early and to
allow for extra days for delivery because “many of the clerks are Jews and
desire to observe their holidays which fall on September 9, 10 and 18.”
1908:
Birthdate of Caraglio, Piedmont native and historian who Arnaldo Dante
Momigliano who “became Professor of Roman History at the University of Turin,
but as a Jew soon lost his position due to the anti-Jewish Racial Laws enacted
by the Fascist regime in 1938” after which he taught at Oxford and the
University of Chicago.
1908(9th
of Elul, 5668): Parashat Ki Teitzei
1908(9th
of Elul, 5668): Sixty-five-year-old Julius Levine, the Polish born son Lieb and
Hinda and Johanna Lewin and husband of Clara Levine passed away today in
Manhattan after which he was buried in Brooklyn.
1909:
Birthdate of Old Testament scholar and biblical archaeologist George Wright who
led digs at Shechem and Tell Gezer.
1909:
Birthdate of Detroit native Harry Lawrence Newman the star quarterback for the
Michigan Wolverines who led them to three Big Ten Championships that included
an undefeated season and national championship in 1932 before going on to a
successful NFL career in the late 1930’s.
1910:
Marie Curie, who had supported Dreyfus and whose enemies attempted to block her
membership in the French Academy with false claims that she was Jewish
“announced….that she had found a process to isolate pure radium from its
naturally occurring salt, radium chloride, making large scale production of the
rare element feasible.”
1911:
In Long Branch, NJ, Rabbi Harry Abram Merfeld the graduate of the University of
South Carolina and University of Maryland Law School and the Baltimore born son
of Katie Bottigheimer and Isidor Merfeld married Amy E. Haas who starting in
1922 became the spiritual leader of Temple Beth-El in Ft. Worth, TX.
1911:
In London, George W. Seligman married Mrs. R.C.W. Wadsworth a widow who was the
daughter of James Benedict of New York City.
1912:
“Judge Leon Sanders, just returned from Europe, where he has been making
arrangements for a world-wide movement in the interests of Jewish immigration,
was honored this evening by a dinner at the Hotel Astor” which was attended by
more than 450 persons.
1913:
The eastern portion of Hot Springs, AR, the resort community that Jews began to
settle in the 1830’s and which at this time was home to many stores owned by
Jews including Simon Meyer, Morris Moscowitz and David Lockwood, went up in
smoke today in fire that brought engines from as far away as Little Rock.
1914:
During WW I, the pivotal Battle of the Marne, which represented the last chance
for the Allies to halt the advance of the Germans on the Western Front began
with armies that came to include tens of thousands of Jews on both sides.
1914: During World War I, “on the Eastern Front, the first award of the Cross
of St George, the equivalent of the Victoria Cross in Britain,” went to Leo
Osnas, a Jewish soldier, “for exceptional bravery on the field of battle.”
1914:
Forty-one-year-old French Roman Catholic author Charles Peguy, an ardent
Dreyfusard (supporter of the French Jewish military officer)
1914:
Stoker William Stern was among the 250 British sailors who died today when the
HMS Pathfinder was sunk today by the U-21 in what was the first sinking of a
surface vessel by a submarine using a motor powered torpedo.
1915(26th
of Elul, 5675): Orthodox Jews in New York and other cities in the United States
observed a special fast day which had been called for by a group of rabbis
meeting at the Henry Street Synagogue to express sympathy for suffering being
experienced by the Jews of Europe because of the World War and to pray for
peace at special services being held on this day.
1915:
Rabbi M.S. Margolis conducted services from five until 8 this morning during
which he delivered “ a sermon on the sufferings of the European Jews” and
called for financial contributions from American Jews to aid their co-religionists in the war zones.
1915:
In Toledo, Ohio, founding of Anshe Sfard Synagogue
1915:
“Jacob Panken, the attorney for the Hebrew Trades acted as the temporary
Chairman of today’s meeting in Beethoven Hall where delegates from “a number of
Jewish trade unions and the National Workmen’s Committee on Jewish Rights” met
“to consider ways and means by which American Jews can assist European Jews
during and after the war.”
1915:
The American Jewish Relief Committee a cable message from the Jewish
Colonization Committee at Petrograd stating “Referring our cable fifth June,
seeing daily increasing acutest, indescribable distress. Sums collected and
half million Government contribution completely exhausted.”
1915:
“Speaking before the Council of the Empire” today “Baron Rosen former Russian
Ambassador to the United States declared that it was the duty of the
legislature to take the initiative in introducing bill abrogating all
legislation restricting the rights of Jews.”
1915:
In Atlantic City, NJ, the Fourth Annual Convention of the Associated Young
Men’s and Young Women’s Hebrew Associations opened today at Beth Israel Temple
with a speech by Joseph Brenner of New York who declared “that young Jews are
growing up in ignorance of the history and the achievements of the great men of
the race.”
1915: Leon Trotsky attended an International Socialist conference in
Zimmerwald, Switzerland that issues a manifesto demanding immediate peace and
civil war between the classes throughout Europe.
1915:
The bazar sponsored by the Galician and Boukowinian Jews which has a member of
60,000 is scheduled to continue for a second day.
1916:
“Asks Jews To Drop Congress Program” published today described efforts by the
Jewish Congress of Committee of Brooklyn under that leadership of Chairman
Professor Isaac A. Hourwich and Vice Chairman Joseph Barondess to get its
counterparts throughout the United States to repudiate “the peace agreement”
that is designed to lead to the meeting of an American Jewish Congress because
of disagreement over the method of electing delegates and choosing members of
the executive committee.
1916:
Northwestern University-trained physician Alexander Aaron Goldsmith, the Auroa,
Il born son of Bertha Buxbaum and David Goldsmith who was an assistant
professor at his alma mater a member of Chicago’s Sinai Congregation married
Corinne Rosenfeld today.
1916:
In New York, Sidney Benjamin Cardozo, Sr., the son of Clara and Daniel Henry
Cardozo Sr and his wife Eva Cardozo gave birth to Sidney Benjamin Cardozo, Jr.
1916:
Birthdate of Canadian comedian Frank Shuster, the Shuster in the team of “Wayne
and Shuster” who was the cousin of Jos Shuster, one of the creators “Superman.”
1916:
Today, the New York Times published a list of friends or relatives of Jews
living in the New York area supplied by acting general manager Jacob Fain whom the Hebrew Sheltering
and Immigrant Aid Society of America is trying to find on behalf of needy Jews
living in Russia.
1917:
Pavel Axelrod of the Organization committee of the Russian Social Democratic
Party and Karol Radek and Jacob Hanecki of the Social Democracy of the Kingdom
of Poland and Lithuania were among the delegates attending the “Third
Zimmerwald Conference” – a meeting of anti-War Socialists – that opened today
in Stockholm.
1917:
In Greensburg, PA, a suburb of Pittsburg, furniture salesman David Goldberg and
his wife Anna gave birth to Arthur Newton Goldberg who gained fame as “Art
Rupe, the founder of Specialty Records, an innovative independent label based
in Los Angeles that brought rhythm and blues into the mainstream and helped set
the table for the rock ’n’ roll era with singers like Little Richard and Lloyd
Price.” (As reported by William Grimes)
1918:
Prior to the Battle of Nablus, in Palestine “the New Zealand Mounted Rifles
Brigade took over the left sector of the valley defences, continuing active
patrolling.”
1918:
“In the ravine de L’Homme Mort, near Vauxcere between the Vesle and Aisne
Rivers,” after a bursting shell blew off both of this feet, William Shefrin, a
cook serving with Company C, 306th Infantry, “although mortally
wounded, cooly directed the work of rescuing and caring for other wounded men
of the kitchen department” who had been injured with their transport was
struck.
1919:
The 1919 Emergency National Convention of the Socialist Party of America in
which Jacob Panken played a vital role as the chairman of the Credentials
Committee came to an end today.
1919:
It was reported today that “the campaign to raise $500,000 for the purpose of
covering the cost of the new home of the Hebrew National Orphan House on
Tuckahoe Road will be inaugurated by a dinner at the Hotel Astor: on September
15th.
1920:
Seats for the upcoming High Holiday services are on sale today at Congregation
Kehilath Jeshurun and the West End Synagogue (Congregation Shaaray Tefillah)
1920:
Grand Rabbi Meilech Horowitz and Cantor Marcus Ornoff are scheduled to
officiate this afternoon “at the dedication ceremonies of the new gate to be
opened at Mt. Carmel cemetery by the Congregation Beth H’Kneseth Anshee Mieletz
of which Mendel Z. Schapiro is president.”
1920:
Birthdate of Ontario, Canada, native Selma Diamond who wrote comedy for radio
and television before establishing herself as a comedic character actress.
http://articles.latimes.com/1985-05-14/local/me-19057_1_night-court-actress-selma-diamond
1921:
In Brooklyn, Harry Gotbaum and the former Mollie Bernstein gave birth to labor
leader Victor Harry Gotbaum. (As reported by Steven Greenhouse)
1922:
Birthdate of Istanbul native Mordecai Weinstein who gained fame as Mordechai
Gazit, the older brother of Shlomo Gait, Haganah veteran and “an adviser to
Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir., ambassador to France, and as
Director-General of the Israeli Foreign Ministry.”
1922:
Rabbi Sol Bezalel Friedman, the Cleveland Law School trained attorney the New
York City born son of Joseph and Rose Friedman married Clair Goldstein today
while living in Pittsburgh where he was a founder of the Agudath Kehillath and
the Women’s League for Traditional Judaism.
1922:
Today, Hyman Rickover “joined the destroyer La Vallette” where “he impressed
his commanding officer with his hard work and efficiency.”
1922:
Three days after he passed away, funeral services are scheduled to be held in
Jersey for Joseph Morris, the husband of Jeannette Morris who was lodge brother
of Hiram Cohen.
1923:
In the aftermath of the Earthquakes that struck Japan in August, “Rabbi Abram
Simon, the President of the Central Conference of American Rabbis…issued a call
to all members to obtain subscriptions to the Japanese relief fund of the
American Red Cross.”
1924:
“Another message from President Coolidge praising the Jews in” the United
States was made public today in which he said that “the Jewish New Year which
begins on the evening of September is one of the most notable anniversaries in
the Jewish calendar” and “it is an occasion too, of much interest to non-Jewish
people.”
1925(16th
of Elul, 5686): Parashat Ki Tavo
1925(16th
of Elul, 5686): Seventy-one-year-old Caroline “Carrie” Lebensberger Trost, the
Ohio born daughter of Joseph and Rosina Leopold Lebensberger and the wife of
Samuel W. Trost whom she married in 1878 passed away today aft which she was
buried at the Walnut Hills Jewish Cemtery in Evanston, OH.
1925:
Birthdate of Justin Kaplan the Pulitzer Prize winning biographer whose subjects
included Mark Twain, Walt Whiteman and Lincoln Steffens.
1926(26th
of Elul, 5686): Walter Pulitzer, the son of Albert
Pulitzer and the nephew of publisher Joseph Pulitzer who was the president of the Pulitzer Publishing
Company, the author of Chess Harmonies and composer of songs for light opera who
married Caroline Englehart and divorcing Lillian Hearne passed away.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1926/09/06/101682844.html?pageNumber=15
1926:
Rabbi David de Sola Pool, the spiritual leader of the Spanish and Portuguese
Synagogue, reported on his recently completed trip to Palestine. He said that
one of the things that impressed him the most was the “complete public security
in Palestine and Transjordan.” He reported that he and his family traveled
between the two entities with the same sense of security one would have in
traveling from New York to Montreal. He was also impressed with the economic
growth in the region which was exemplified by the newly completed public works
project in Jerusalem that will bring “copious” amounts of water to the City
David; a change that will benefit Jews, Moslems and Christians.
1927(8th
of Elul, 5687): Fifty-seven-year-old movie mogul Marcus Loew who formed MGM and
Loews Theatre Chain passed away.
http://www.immigrantentrepreneurship.org/entry.php?rec=88
1927:
Thirty-two-year-old Samuel Holtzman the lightweight boxer who fought under the
name of Frankie Callahan passed away today.
1927:
“The Master of Nuremberg” starring Julius Falkenstein and featuring Maria
Matray and Hermann PIcha was released today in Germany.
1927: Three
quarters of the houses in the town Kotsk or Kock in Eastern Poland were destroyed by a fire which broke
out tonight. The town was the home of Menachem Mendel Morgensztern of Kotzk,
better known as the Kotzker Rebbe.
1928:
A group of Jews from Wembley, in the London Borough of Brent, held their first
meeting at which it was decided to form the Wembley Hebrew Congregation and Mr.
H Hooberman was appointed Chairman of the Congregation.
1928; The body of Dr. Leon Harris, the rabbi of Temple Israel in St. Louis “was
killed” today “by a subway train when he fell from the platform at 116th
Street and Broadway is scheduled to lie in state today in St. Louis prior to
his burial at Mt. Sinai.
1929: As Arab violence abated, a large number of Arab leaders met in Jerusalem
under the auspices of the Arab Executive.
1929: In Haifa, Jewish shops remained closed while casualties from the fighting
at Safed , where the British repulsed invading Bedouin forces, arrived in the
northern port city.
1929: “Under the Greenwood Tree,” a cinematic version of the novel by the same
name directed by Harry Lachman who co-authored the script was released today in
the United Kingdom.
1929: A committee of leading physicians of Jerusalem today issued a strong
denial of a government official statement that there were no mutilations of the
bodies of Jews massacred at Hebron. The physicians emphatically asserted that
among the fifty-nine slain Jews buried at Hebron a great number of unspeakable
mutilations were disclosed. The committee demands the exhumation of these
victims in the presence of European doctors and the Consular Corps for the
purpose of proving their contention. The committee also states that many Jews
are being treated in Jerusalem hospitals for mutilations and that these are
still available for inspection.
1930:
It was reported today that Felix W. Warburg, the American philanthropist gave
an interview in Berlin in which he emphasized the need to continue aide “for
translating the hopeful and optimistic outlook in Palestine into reality in
order to lay a safe foundation for te Jews there and for their progress in the
future.”
1931:
A week after premiering in New York City, : “Street Scene” the movie version of
the Pulitzer Prize winning play Elmer Rice, produced by Samuel Goldwyn and with
music by Alfred Newman was released today in the rest of the United States.
1931:
In Alexandria, Egypt, “Dora and Haim Victor Mizrahi, a store clerk” gave birth
to Moshe Mizrahi the Egyptian born, award winning Israeli film director Moshe
Mizrahi
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/15/obituaries/moshe-mizrahi-dead.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well
1931: Birthdate of Amnon Rubinstein, the native of Tel Aviv who became a legal
scholar, politician, columnist and member of the Knesset serving from 1977
through 2002.
1932:
In Atlantic City, the annual encampment of the Jewish War Veterans of the
United States where payment of the bonus to World War Veterans and the
immigration quotas which affected Jews were topics of conversation is scheduled
to come to an end today.
1932:
In San Francisco, CA, Mortimer Fleishhacker, Jr. the San Francisco born son of
Mortimer and Florence Fleishhacker gave birth to Mortimer Fleishhacker, III
1932(11th of Elul, 5692): Forty-two-year-old director Paul Bern, a
colleague of Irving Thalberg and the new husband of film star Jean Harlow was
found dead today, with a gunshot in his head and gun by his side. For more see http://www.historictruecrime.com/how-did-paul-bern-die-the-mysterious-death-of-jean-harlows-husband/
1933: First baseman Phil Weintraub made his major league debut with the New
York Giants.
1934(24th of Av, 5694): Baevski Myer passed away. Born Simcha Myer Baevski in
Russia, in 1878, the Australian businessman and philanthropist, best known for
creating Myer, Australia’s largest chain of department stores.
1934:
In Elmira, NY, Dr. Alexander Lyons, the Rabbi of the Eighth Avenue Temple in
Brooklyn is scheduled to deliver the main address today during the dedication
of the People’s Temple.
1935:
Artist Lucienne Bloch, the daughter of composer Ernest Bloch, married Stephen
Pope Dimitroff today.
1936:
“The Arab Supreme Committee decided today to continue the general strike
against Jewish immigration and the sale of land to Jews…” which so far has
claimed the lives 300 people including
seventy-nine Jews.
1936:
The American Committee for the Relief of Jews announced today that “leading
rabbinical and synagogue organizations throughout” the United States “have
joined in the committee’s High Holy Days’ appeal which is aimed at ameliorating
“the distress of about 3,500,000 Jews in Poland.”
1936:
The Democratic State Committee announced that “a resolution endorsing President
Roosevelt and Governor Lehman has been adopted delegates representing about
50,000 owners and workers in the cleaning and dyeing industry.”
1936:
During the Spanish Civil War, Robert Capa photographs “The Falling Soldier.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Capa,_Death_of_a_Loyalist_Soldier.jpg
http://life.time.com/history/robert-capas-falling-soldier-the-modest-birth-of-an-iconic-picture/#1
1937(29th of Elul, 5697): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1937(29th
of Elul, 5697): Seventy-four-year-old “tobacco manufacturer and philanthropist”
Sir Albert Levy, the son of Moses Levy, founder Adrath Tobacco Company, a
member of the West London Synagogue and supporter of “a wide range of Jewish
causes who was knighted in 1929 passed away today leaving an estate of
£130,000.
http://www.jta.org/1937/09/08/archive/sir-albert-levy-british-philanthropist-dead-at-74
1937:
“One Hundred Men and a Girl” a musical comedy directed Henry Koster, produced
by Joe Pasternak, with a score by Charles Previn and featuring Mischa Auer as
Michael Borodoff was released in the United States by Universal Pictures.
1937:
“In a message to Jewish communities throughout the United States, Louis J.
Moss, president of th United Synagogue of America, voiced a plea for peace,
happiness and goodwill.”
1938:
The Racial Laws were passed today in Italy which excluded all those of Jewish
background from universities, schools, academies and other institutions.
1938:
When the National Socialist Party held its annual convention in Nuremberg
today, Nazis did not have to look on “the old synagogue and administrative
buildings of the Jewish Cultural Society on Hans Sachs Platz” because in August
Julius Streicher had ordered that the demolition of these buildings that he
called “the disgrace of Nuremberg” were to be destroyed before the party
faithful gathered.
1938:
After a two-day hiatus, “You Can’t Take It with You” by George S. Kaufman and
Moss Hart continued its Broadway run when it re-opened at the Imperial Theatre.
1939: As the Nazis continued their sweep through Poland, the Germans tried to
set fire to the predominantly Jewish section of Sulejow, Poland. Six Jews died
in the flames while five were shot as they fled.
1939: Germany asked Russia to invade Poland from the east in accord with the
pact that Hitler and Stalin had signed in August of 1939. Molotov, the Soviet
Foreign Minister replied that they would “at a suitable time.”
1939: “Golden Boy,” a film version of the play by Clifford Odets, with a script
by Daniel Taradash and Lewis Meltzer, music by Victor Young and filmed by
cinematographer Karl Fruend was released in the United States today.
1940:
Today, Gustav
Simon, the senior Nazi administrator announced the extension of the Nuremberg Laws
to Luxembourg.
1940: Assistant Secretary of State, Breckinridge Long, a proponent of curbing
Jewish immigration, sent a memo to his consulates that stated in part:
“The list of Rabbis has been closed and now it remains for the President’s
Committee to be curbed.” Long’s attitude was typical of many officials in
the US State Department and helps explain why so little was done to help the
Jews escape Nazi persecution both before and during the war. His “genteel
band of anti-Semitism” was but another form of the “gentlemen’s
agreement” only this time with deadly consequences
1941:
U.S. Premiere of Citizen Kane, which had premiered in New York last May, with
music by Bernard Hermann and which earned Herman Mankiewicz earned an Academy
Award for Best Original Screenplay.
1942(23rd of Elul, 5702): Parashat Nitzavim-Vayeilech; Leil Selichot
1942: Eight hundred women were gassed at Birkenau.
1943(5th
of Elul, 5703): Seventy-seven-year-old Julian W. Mack who served a judge on the
United States Court of Appeals for 38 years and whose leadership of the Jewish
community included serving as President of the Zionist Organization of America
passed away today.
http://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/biography/73
https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/mack-julian-william
1943: An old shoe warehouse in the Lódz (Poland) Ghetto takes delivery of 12
freight cars filled with shoes stolen from murdered Jews
1944:
Bernhard Bästlein a German Communist who was active in the anti-Nazi resistance
“was sentenced to death today for the crimes of conspiracy to commit high
treason, aiding the enemy and undermining military strength.” (He was not Jewish,
but we should remember that there were those who risked their lives to combat
the Nazis,)
1944: The SS closes the concentration camp at Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands.
1944:
At Kibbutz Ein-Harod, Atara and Nachman Prag gave birth to Zvi Prag who
perished about the Submarine Dakar in January of 1968.
1945:
Of his meeting this morning with Herman B. Baruch, the brother of financier
Bernard Baruch, President Harry S. Truman said, “Flatterer. Wants to be
ambassador to France. Conniver like his brother.”
1946:
“978 Jews Reach Cyprus” published today described the delivered of the arrival
of the British transport Empire Heywood at Cyprus where it unloaded its cargo
of 978 Jews deported from Palestine who were “unauthorized immigrants.”
1946:
As the British prepare for their “conference on the Holy Land” which is
scheduled to open next week, their “policy as stated tonight by an
authoritative Government official will be to ease the Arab States off their
rock-like opposition to all Zionist aspirations and thus to increase the
Zionist moderates’ influence.”
1946:
An Arab leader in London declared today that “the Arab states will demand the
establishment of an Arab constitutional government in Palestine.”
1947:
Rusztem Vámbéry, the son of famed orientalist Armin Vambery began serving as
Hungarian ambassador to the United States.
1948(1st
of Elul, 5708): Rosh Chodesh Elul – the Shofar is sounded for the first time In
a Jewish state since 70 CE.
1948:
Leon Blum completed his term as Vice-Premier in the cabinet of Andre Marie.
1948: Betty and Jacob Levin are married in Chicago, starting a fifty-nine-year
life-time partnership that was a blessing and inspiration to all who came to
know them.
1949:
During a debate on conscription in the Knesset, “Prime Minister David
Ben-Gurion said tonight that Israeli armies would invade neighboring Arab
states if the Palestine war was renewed by an attack on Israel.”
1949:
It was announced today in Tel Aviv that “plans made by Israeli engineers and
approved by American experts who visited Haifa recently will enable the port to
handle to handle” two million of tons of cargo.
1950:
Funeral services are scheduled to be held this morning at “The Riverside” for
one of the founders of Luft and Luft Equipment Corporation Ira Luft, the
husband of Gussie Luft and father of Julian D. Luft who was an officer of The
Congregation of Throgs Neck Jewish Center.
1951:
In Los Angeles, premiere of “The Blue Veil” directed by Curtis Bernhardt,
produced by Jerry Wald and with music by Franz Waxman.
1951: Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion greeted the delegates of the 12th annual
conference of The Women’s International Zionist Organization at its opening
meeting in Jerusalem. The organization has 180,000 members in fifty-one
countries. The organization which focuses on social work activities does not
have branches in the United States, since Hadassah already fills that niche.
1951: At the end of four days of war games in the Negev watched by
representatives of the U.S. and U.K., Major General Yigal Yadin, the IDF’s
Chief of Staff expressed unbounded confidence in the ability of his troops to
repel attacks by an aggressor.
1951:
As America is gripped by a right-wing witch hunt, former Communist Karl
Wittfogel told the House Un-American Activities Committee that Rutgers
University professor Moses Finkelstein was a communist. This accusation would touch off a series of
events that would lead to Finkelstein losing his position, moving to England
where his career led to a knighthood.
1951:
The funeral for Abraham Cahan the retired editor of the Forward is scheduled to
take place today.
1952:
After having premiered in the United States in 1948, “Gallant Bess” co-produced
by Mathew Rapf who also wrote the screenplay was released today in Sweden.
1954(7th of Elul, 5714): Ninety-four-year-old Eugen Schiffer, a long
time German political leader who survived the Holocaust living in a ghetto in
Berlin passed away today.
1954:
Twenty-five-year-old southpaw Morris “Moe” Savransky pitched his last game for
the Cincinnati Reds in his one and only major league season.
1956(29th
of Elul, 5716): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1956(29th
of Elul, 5716): Forty-nine-year-old society photographer Sterling Henry Nahum,
“known professionally as Baron, a friend of Prince Phillip and a “Court
Photographer to the British Royal Family passed away today.
http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp60452/baron-sterling-henry-nahum
1957(9th
of Elul, 5717): Seventy-four-year-old St. Louis native Evelyn Scharff passed
away today in New York City.
1958:
Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago was published in the US. Born in 1904,
Pasternak became something of a hero during the 1930’s when he refused to write
in a manner consistent with the rules laid down by Stalin. He actually began
writing Doctor Zhivago during the 1930’s. Pasternak won the Nobel Prize for
Literature but was forced to reject the award. If he had accepted, he would
have been exiled.
1960(13th of Elul, 5720): Sixty-six-year-old William I Teichner, “an
engineer for the New York Board of Transportation and the Transit Authority,”
“a vice president of the Sea Gate Jewish Congress and a trustee of the Coney
Island Lodge of B’nai B’rith” who was the husband of Sonya Teichner and the
father of “Dr. Victor J. Teichner” passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/09/06/99794504.pdf
1961:
In Tel Aviv, the Sixth Maccabiah Games came to a close.
1961
Milk and Honey, “a musical story centers on a busload of lonely American widows
hoping to catch husbands while touring Israel and is set against the background
of the country’s fight for recognition as an independent nation” began a
pre-Broadway run at the Colonial Theatre in Boston, MA.
1962(6th
of Elul, 5722):Eighty-three-year-old Michael Lurie, the Russian born son of
Abraham Luie, the husband of Johanna Becker and the father of Joseph and Adeliade
Lurie passed away today in Los Angeles.
1962:
In Haifa, Leah and Benjamin Ga-Or, both of whom “are professors at the
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, gave birth to Amir Gal-Or who “served
as pilot in the Israeli Air Force” for almost a quarter of a century before
becoming a successful entrepreneur who founded Maayan Ventures.
1963(16th
of Elul, 5724): Eighty-one-year- NYU trained attorney Isidor Wels, the New York City born son of Tillie Roth and
Simon Wels and the husband of Belle
Hoffman and senior part of the law firm of Moss, Wels and Marcus who belonged
to Temple B’nai Israel and the American Jewish Committee passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1963/09/07/82148048.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1964(28th
of Elul, 5724): Parashat Nitzavim – last Shabbat of 5724
1966:
Today British author David Irving filed a libel suit concerning Deobrah Lipstadt’s
book, Denying the Holocaust, in English court
1967:
CBS broadcast the first episode of “Good Morning, World,” a sit-com created by
Carl Reiner and Sheldon Leonard and starring Goldie Hawn.
1969:
Today, Peter Max was featured on the cover of Life magazine “under the heading
‘Peter Max: Portrait of the artist as a very rich man/”
1971:
“Consecration of the first Canberra Community Centre (the ACT Jewish Memorial
Centre), featuring both an orthodox synagogue and provision for liberal
services in the Dr. Fanny Reading Auditorium.”
1971:
CBS broadcast the last episode of “The Six Wives of Henry VIII” featuring Wolfe
Morris as Thomas Cromwell.
1972: Palestinian guerrillas attacked the Israeli delegation at the Munich
Olympic Games; 11 Israelis, five guerrillas and a police officer were killed in
the siege. The group who carried out this outrage was called “Black
September.” Their name had nothing to do with Jews or Israelis. Rather,
their named commemorated the violent expulsion of the PLO from Jordan at the
hands of the Jordanian government. The hostage crisis moved from the Olympic
Village to the Fürstenbruck airport near Munich. That is where the Israeli
Olympic sportsmen were killed by eight Arab gunmen. Israel never forgot Yosef
Gottfreud, Ze¹ev Friedman, Ya¹acov Springer, Moshe Weinberg, Eliezer Halfin,
Mark Slavin, Kehat Shorr, Andre Spitzer and Amihud Shapira. The Israeli
government promised that it would pursue and punish the murderers and those who
aided them. How did the world respond to this first act of terror in what is
now called the War on Terror? The Olympic Games continued at Munich. The UN
would condemn Zionism as a form of racism. The General Assembly would applaud
wildly as Yassar Arafat, the father of this terror, stood with pistol on his
hip addressing the international body dedicated to peace.
http://life.time.com/history/munich-massacre-1972-olympics-photos/#1
1972(26th
of Elul, 5732): Eighty-eight-year-old thrice married Columbia trained architect
Ely Jacques Kahn, the New York
City
born son of New York Jacques and Eugenie Maximilian Kahn the father of author Ely Jacques Kahn, Jr.
whose fifty year career included the development of a style called Beaux Arts
and whose projects included the renovation of “Manhattan’s Central synagogue
and the design for Municipal Asphalt Plant as well as serving as the employer
for co-religionist Any Rand whose work in his office was part of her research
for the novel The Fountainhead passed away today.
Ely Jacques Kahn,
Leading Architect, Dies at 88 – The New York Times (nytimes.com)
1972(26th of Elul, 5732): Yossef Romano, a Libyan-born, Jewish Israeli
weightlifter with the Israeli team that went to the 1972 Summer Olympics in
Munich, Germany, was the second of eleven Israeli team members murdered in the
Munich massacre by Black September terrorists during that Olympics today. He
was the Israeli weight-lifting champion in the light and middle-weight
divisions for nine years. Romano competed in the middleweight weightlifting
division in the 1972 Olympics but was unable to complete one of his lifts due
to a ruptured knee tendon. He was due to fly home to Israel on September 6,
1972, to have an operation on the injured knee.
1972:
Israeli race-walker Shaul Paul Ladany was awakened by wrestling Coach Yoseef
Gutfreund enabling him to escape from the terrorists and sound the alarm to
officials that the attack was underway.
1973(8th
of Elul, 5734): Sixty-one-year-old clinical professor of oral surgery at the
New York University Bellevue Medical Center Dr. Julius F. Miller the husband of
the “former Estelle Stern” with whom he had two sons – Barry and Stepehen —
“who was a dentist for 35 years” passed tonight at Beth Israel Hospital
1973:
Five Palestinians were arrested in Rome thwarting a planned attack that was to
be made on an El Al plane flying over room using ground-to-air rockets supplied
by the Soviet Union, Egypt, Iraq and Syria.
1973:
In Paris, Arab terrorists attacked the Saudi-Arabian Embassy following which
“French authorities allowed the terrorists to fly from France with six Saudi
diplomats as hostages aboard a Syrian plane which landed in Kuwait.
1975(29th
of Elul, 5735): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1975:
During New Year’s Eve services Jews clashed with militia outside Moscow
synagogue
1976:
The cabinet decided to appoint Aldin Yadlin, former head of the Histadrut’s
economic enterprises, governor of the Bank of Israel to succeed Moshe Sanbar
1976:
Today’s Mass Market Paperbacks Best Sellers list included, #2 The Eagle Has
Landed, Jack Higgins’ novel about a Nazi plot to assassinate Churchill, #5 Ragtime
by E. L. Doctorow and #10 Ninety Minutes to Entebbe by William
Stevenson.
1977:
In order to qualify as the 22nd member of the Arab League, Djibouti barred all
Israeli shipping from its port.
1977: Kibbutz Kfar Etzion celebrated the 10th anniversary of its
re-establishment.
1978: Sadat, Begin and Carter began the peace conference at Camp David,
Maryland. These talks would produce the first peace treaty between Israel and
one of its Arab neighbors. The treaty has lasted. The peace may be
“cold” but there have been no “hot” wars.
1978(3rd of Elul,
5738): Seventy-five-year-old Brooklyn native and Junior Lightweight boxer Joe
Glick whose twenty-three year career “included over two hundred bouts” two of
which were fights for the Junior Lightweight Title which he lost passed away
today.
1985(19th
of Elul, 5745): Eighty-four-year-old Margareta Nyiszli who along with her
husband Mikilos, the author of Auschwitz: A Doctor’s Eyewitness Account
and her daughter Susanna survived the Holocaust, passed away today.
1986(1st
of Elul, 5746): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1986:
Sixty-eight-year-old Reverend John Stanley Grauel, a Methodist Minister who
supported Zionism and served as a crewman on the S.S. Exodus in 1947 passed
away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/1986/09/10/obituaries/rev-j-s-grauel-68-a-supporter-of-israel.html
1987: An exhibition entitled ”Boris: The Studio Photographer 1900-1985,”
documenting the life and work of the portrait photographer Boris Bennett, which
is part of the Jewish East End Celebration is scheduled to come to an end.
1988(23rd
of Elul, 5748): Ninety-two-year-old Leo Henry Rosenberg, the son of Joseph and
Rosa Rosenberg, and graduate of the Armour Institute of Technology who was one
the first announcers best known for his groundbreaking broadcast of the
Harding-Cox election in 1920 which was followed by a successful career in
advertising passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1988/09/07/issue.html
1988:
Jerry Lewis’ 23rd Labor Day telethon raises record $41,132,113
1991:
First performance of The Death of Klinghoffer an opera based on the murder of
Leon Klinghoffer which was controversial because of its portrayal of his
killers took place at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
1991:
Two weeks after the rioting in Crown Heights, Anthony Graziosi, an Italian
sales representative with a white beard dressed in dark business attire, was
driving in the neighborhood “six blocks away from where Yankel Rosenbaum had
been murdered” was surrounded by “a group of black men, one of whom shot and
killed him” leading to allegations “State Attorney General Robert Abrams,
former Mayor Ed Koch, and a number of advocacy organizations, that Graziosi’s
resemblance to a Hasidic Jew precipitated his murder.”
1992(7th of Elul, 5752): Author Fritz Leiber passed away. He was best known for
his science fiction works several of which won Hugo Awards.
1993(19th
of Elul, 5753): Seventy-seven-year-old Irma (Silverbach) Seligmann the wife of
Werner Julius Seligmann passed away today in Montevideo, Uruguay.
1996:
Holocaust denier David “Irving filed a libel suit concerning Deborah Lipstadt’s
book Denying the Holocaust naming the author and her publisher, Penguin Books
as defendants” while also suing “Holocaust historian Gitta Sereny for libel for
an article” she had written about him.
1997(3rd of Elul, 5757): Hungarian born conductor Sir George Solti passed away.
1997(3rd of Elul, 5757): Twelve Israeli naval commandos were killed in an
attack against a Hezbollah installation.
1998:
Seventy-seven-year-old actor and director Leo Penn who had the unique
distinction of risking his life as a bombardier in WWII only to be blacklisted
and who was the “father of musician Michael Penn and actors Sean Penn and
Christ Penn, passed away today.(As reported by Kathryn Shattuck)
1998:
Premiere of Radu Mihăileanu’s Train of Life (Train de Vie) one of the most
off-beat movies ever made about the Holocuast.
1999(24th of Elul, 5759): Alan Funt, creator of Candid Camera, the original
television reality show passed away.
1999:
A Hamas bombing at Egged bus 960 at Tiberias failed to murder anybody.
1999:
A Hamas bombing at the Haifa Central Bus Station failed to murder anybody.
1999: The
New York Times
included reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish
interest including The Last Survivor: In Search of Martin Zaidenstadt by
Timothy W. Ryback, Jafsie and John Henry: Essays by David Mamet, Modern
Girls, Shining Stars, The Skies of Tokyo: Five Japanese Women by Phyllis
Birnbaum and American Odyssey: Letters and Journals, 1940-1947 by
Wilhelm Reich.
2000: “Evan and Jaron” the second album by twin brothers Evan Mitchell
Lowenstein and Jaron David Lowenstein was released today.
2001:
An explosion from a bomb ignited by a terrorist disguised as Jew “rocked
downtown Jerusalem and “sent Sergeant Major Mugrabi and his partner, Officer
Natan Sandaka, flying at least 10 feet.”
2002:
Otto Schily, the interior minister “said today that vigorous police work by the
authorities here had disrupted a militant Islamic group that was plotting
attacks on Jewish and Israeli targets throughout” Germany.
2003:
David “Blaine began his 44-day endurance stunt sealed inside a transparent
Plexiglas case suspended 9 metres (30 ft) in the air next to Potters Fields
Park on the south bank of the River Thames, the area between City Hall and
Tower Bridge in London. The case, measuring 3 feet (0.9 m) by 7 feet (2.1 m) by
7 feet (2.1 m), had a webcam installed so that viewers could observe his
progress. During the 44-day period, Blaine went without any food or nutrients
and survived on just 4.5 litres of water per day.”
2003(8th
of Elul, 5763): Twenty-seven-year-old Mordechai Laufter of Netanya died today
of wounds suffered during a bus bombing in the Shmuel HaNavi Quarter of
Jerusalem.
2004:
The
New York Times
included reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish
interest including Heir to the Glimmering World by Cynthia Ozick and
Secrets of the Soul: A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis by Eli
Zaretsky
2004:
“Focus on the Soul: The Photographs of Lotte Jacobi” closes after three months
of being on displayed at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in
Washington, DC.
2005: In Little Rock, AR, the bris of Rabbi and Estie Ciment newborn son.
2005(1st of Elul, 5765): Rosh Chodesh Elul; the Shofar will be sounded at the
end of all morning services except on Shabbat until the penultimate day of the
month. Psalm 27 is recited daily from this date until Shemini Atzeres.
2005:
Haaretz
reported that the opening of the Israeli diplomatic mission in Dubai several
weeks ago was the culmination of a series of elaborate contacts Israel has been
developing with the United Arab Emirates for years. By using secret diplomacy,
the Foreign Ministry has succeeded in adding the Emirates to the list of Arab
countries that have diplomatic ties with Israel.
2006: In its first-ever public recruiting drive, the Shin Bet security service
is calling on high-tech geeks to join the anti-terror battle. “If you
thought the only way to fight terror was with Arabic, think again,” says
the campaign’s slogan. Shin Bet sources admit the ad campaign is also intended
to change the organization’s image. For many, the first thing that springs to
mind at the mention of Shin Bet is torture. The people in the service are tired
of that. They want the Shin Bet to be associated with advanced technology and
software development. “We want the public to know other sides [of the
service], not only the investigations and dark rooms,” a Shin Bet source
said on Monday. “The public doesn’t know the service’s technological side,
which is an essential tool of preventive security. Part of the campaign’s aim
is to bring that to mind.”
2006:
The BBC reported that Randy Lerner now owned 85.5% of the Aston Villa football
club.
2006: Once the scene of Nazi pogroms and massacres against Jews, the Polish
city of Kielce changed colors. Sixty years after the Holocaust, it opened its
doors to 16 Israeli defense industries exhibiting their wares at the 14th MSPO
International Defense Industry Exhibition taking place in the city. Located in
southeastern Poland, Kielce was once home to 24,000 Jews who were all – except
two – killed during the Holocaust. In 1941, a ghetto was built in the city, and
most of the Jews were moved there before being transferred to Nazi
concentration camps. In July 1946, local Poles murdered 46 Jews who had
returned to the city after the war to rebuild the destroyed Jewish community.
2007(22nd of Elul): Yahrzeit of Joseph B. Levin; still remembered
and still missed after 22 years.
2007)22nd
of Elul, 5767): Eighty-six year old Charlotte Zucker, the wife of Burton
Charles Zucker and the mother of “directors Jerry and David Zucker and actress
Susan Breslau” who was often cast in a small bit parts in her son’s movies
(like one of the Lucille Ball impersonators in Rat Race, and Vincent Ludwig’s
secretary, Dominique, in The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!) passed
away today.
2007: Norman Finkelstein announced his resignation from DePaul after coming to
a settlement with the university on generally undisclosed terms.
2007: In Highland Park, Illinois, the funeral of Dr. Jacob Levin; more could be
said but there would never be enough room to say it all! He is loved and
missed. Ironically, Jacob Levin is buried on the same day as the Yahrzeit of
his brother Joseph is observed.
2007:
Eighty-six-year-old Charlotte Zucker, the wife of Burton Charles Zucker, “the
mother directors Jerry and David Zucker and actress Susan Breslau passed away
today.
http://articles.latimes.com/2007/sep/08/local/me-passings8
2007:
After premiering at Tribeca, “I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With” starring Sarah
Silverman and Jeff Garlin who also directed, produced and wrote the film was
released today in the United States.
2008:
“The Wrestler” a sports film directed and co-produced by Daniel Aronofsky,
written by Robert Siegel and featuring Mark Margolis, Todd Barry and Judah
Friedlander premiered today at the Venice Film Festival.
2008:
NBC aired a segment on “Dateline” convicted hedge fund manager Samuel Israel
III.
2008: “A Secret” (a Holocaust themed film) opens in New York. Claude Miller’s
haunting new movie, called “A Secret” (“Un Secret”) opens in New York. The
Holocaust themed film is based on a novel by Philippe Grimbert.
2009:
In another one of those cases of Jews vs. Jews, for the first time Anthony
Oliver “A.O.” Scott appeared as one of the critics on “At the Movies” replacing
Ben Lyons and Ben Mankiewicz.
2009:
In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Temple Judah hosts its annual Hebrew Labor Day
Traditional Shabbat Service featuring Hebrew prayers and Hebrew National Hot
Dogs at a “Completely Kosher Kiddush.”
2009: NiCad, an international rock band featuring Israeli vocalist and drummer
Gilad Woltsovitch appears at Talking Head Club in Baltimore, MD.
2009: Today “an Associated Press story quoted legal
experts as saying that filing for bankruptcy reorganization might offer Annie
Leibovitz her best chance to control and direct the disposition of her assets
to satisfy debts.”
2009: At the Jerusalem Theatre a performance of “Yerid Hamizrach” a
collection of songs that is a polished, dramatic mix of the personal biography
of the poet Haim Guri and his Israeli experiences, from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv
and Yaffo, and onwards. The names of David Ben Gurion, Yosef Trumpledor, Y. H.
Brenner, Yonatan Ratush, Natan Alterman, and others, are an inseparable part of
the historical events that defined the stormy period in Israel and the personal
lyric of Guri’s life in the land. In “Yerid Hamizrach” has drama,
parody, is many faceted, and fascinating. Guri himself and the show’s creators participated
in the event.
2010: BuckUSY a United Synagogue Youth (USY) Chapter, based out of Congregation
Tifereth Israel in Columbus, Ohio is scheduled to begin its road trip to
Sandusky, Ohio.
2010: The
Los Angeles Times
featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to
Jewish readers including The Sonderberg Case by Elie Wiesel.
2010: The
New York Times
featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to
Jewish readers including Wherever You Go, Joan Leegant’s “first novel,
in which three American Jews suffering from various shades of misguidedness
visit Israel in search of meaning (or closure or salvation or . . . you get the
picture) and their lives collide in (what else?) an act of terror.”
2010: The
Washington Post
featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to
Jewish readers including Bob Dylan In America by Sean Wilentz.
2010: At the U.S. Open, third-seeded Venus Williams defeated Israeli Shahar
Peer, who was 16th-seeded, 7-6 (3), 6-3 on the second straight windy day in
Arthur Ashe Stadium
2010:
Last Night at Chateau Marmont by Lauren Weisberg, the “debuted today at No. 9
on the New York Times Bestseller List.
2010: Yona Metzger, great-rabbi of Israel and Zsolt Semjen, Hungarian
vice-prime minister, attended the rededication of Óbuda Synagogue in Obuda,
Hungary. Jews had been living in the area since the early decades of the 18th
century. The synagogue was originally built in 1820.
2011: “Hansel and Gretel: The End of the Fairy Tale” is scheduled to
be performed by Florence Fisch-Hacham at Bet Avi Chai in Jerusalem.
2011: The Yad Elie Benefit Concert is scheduled to take place at Waimann’s
house in Jerusalem.
2011: The Brit of Rabbi and Estie Ciment’s son is scheduled to take place at
the Chabad Jewish Center in Little Rock, AR. The “tribe” of a true Tzaddik
continues to increase.
2011: On Labor Day in the USA, The DC Beit Midrah is scheduled to sponsor a
“Labor on the Bimah” event at the DC Jewish Community Center.
2011:
The civil administration with the help of hundreds of border police destroyed
three homes at the Migron outpost in the West Bank early Monday morning. In so
doing they made good on a pledge by the state to the High Court of Justice that
the three would be taken down in September
2012:
The Alexandria Kleztet is scheduled to perform at the Peabody Institute in
Baltimore, MD.
2012: 40th
Anniversary of the Munich Massacre
2012: Rabbi David Wolpe of
Sinai Temple in Los Angeles is scheduled to deliver the invocation at a session
of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.
2012:
The Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) of Greater Washington and The
Embassy of Israel is scheduled to sponsor a tribute and commemoration on the
40th anniversary of the 1972 Olympics massacre –“ A Memorial: Remembering the
Munich 11.” 2013
2012:
Democrats amended the party platform this afternoon to include language
supporting Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The last-minute change came in
the wake of mounting criticism from Democratic members of Congress incensed
that the 2008 platform’s declaration backing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel
had been removed from the 2012 text. Sources close to the platform drafting
process said US President Barack Obama personally intervened on reinstating the
Jerusalem language.
2012:
Relatives of the Israeli Olympians slain by Palestinian gunmen during the 1972
Games in Munich today marked the 40th anniversary of the attack with Israeli
and German officials at the air base where most of the 12 victims died.
2012:
The Air Force struck a terror cell that was about to launch rockets into
Israel, the IDF said tonight. The cell had been involved in past rocket fire on
southern Israel, the IDF added.
2013:
A clash between commerce and Kavanah takes place with the opening of New York
City’s Fashion week on the first day of Rosh Hashanah (As reported by Eliora
Katz)
2013:
Anthony Weiner, the disgraced former congressman who has seen his mayoral
prospects dwindle in light of embarrassing revelations regarding his behavior
on Twitter, once again made headlines early today, this time over controversial
remarks directed at him by a prospective Jewish voter in Brooklyn
http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=325316
2013:
Sixty-six-year-old Stephen Chron passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/15/health/stephen-crohn-who-furthered-aids-study-dies-at-66.html?_r=0
2013(1st
of Tishrei, 5774): Rosh Hashanahh
2014:
Two members of the University of Haifa faculty, Dr. Efraim Lev and Dr. Moshe
Lavee, complete a week-long series of meetings and presentation at The Center
for Judaic Studies at the University of Connecticut.
2014:
Comedian Lewis Black is scheduled to appear at the Music Hall in Portsmouth,
NH.
2014:
Hundreds of mourned gathered today for a memorial service at a Miami synagogue
for slain journalist Steven Sotloff, who was executed by Islamic State
extremists it was reveal earlier this week. Nearly a thousand mourners paid
their respects, filling to capacity the Temple Beth Am synagogue that housed
the somber ceremony, according to the Miami Herald. (JPost)
2014:
Israel radio reported today that “a Nigerian visiting Israel was quarantined in
Jerusalem for fear she may have contracted the Ebola virus.” (JTA)
2015(21st
of Elul, 5775): Parasaht Ki Tavo; Leil Selichot
2015: In Jerusalem, Rav Yaakov Moshe Poupko is scheduled to his
lecture T’shuva with the Flick of the Wrist?” at the Orthodox Union’s Israel
Center.
2016: It was reported today that Katrina Lantos Swett, “the
daughter of the late, Hungarian-born US Congressman Tom Lantos” was among 100
recipients of the Knight’s Cross who returned their award “to Hungary to
protest the bestowing of the same award on journalist and writer Zsolt Bayer
who has made anti-Semitic and racist references in his articles.”
2016: The 2nd Annual Red Beans and Rice Cook-off
sponsored by the Crescent City Jewish News, Torah Academy and the Jewish
Community Day School is scheduled to be held this afternoon in Metairie, LA.
2016: Starting today “radio shows with the Israel Story podcast
will be brought to St. Andrew’s Church as part of this year’s Jerusalem Season
of Culture or Medkdeshet.
2016: “Rabin, The Last Day” is scheduled to be shown at JW3, also
known as Jewish Community Centre London
2016(2nd of Elul, 5776): Eighty-eight-year-old “Eliyahu
Yosef She’ar Yashuv Cohen, a former chief rabbi of Haifa known for his Torah
scholarship, interfaith work and strict vegetarian lifestyle” passed away
tonight,
http://www.timesofisrael.com/rabbi-shear-yashuv-cohen-scholar-and-warrior-dies-at-88/
2016: On Labor Day, American Jews can reflect on their role in the
American Labor Movement:
http://www.csjo.org/resources/essays/jews-in-the-american-labor-movement/
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/labor-movement-in-united-states
http://www.ajcarchives.org/ajc_data/files/1952_3_specialarticles.pdf
2017:
In Memphis, TN, the Temple Israel Sisterhood is scheduled to host an evening
devoted to “Women’s Health Issues and Breast Cancer.”
2017:
In London, JW3 hosted a screening of “The Venice, Ghetto, 500 Years of Life.”
2017:
The Hebrew Congregation of St. Thomas is scheduled to offer the first session
of three week course – An Introduction to Judaism.
2017: 45th
Anniversary of the Munich Massacre
2018:
Beit Avi Chai is scheduled to host “the Israeli Klezmer in a performance
dedicated to the month of Elul” featuring “guest musicians Mark and Peretz
Eliyahu.”
2018:
The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host an evening with Pulitzer
Prize winner Linda Greenhouse, author of The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very
Short Introduction and “ACLU National Director David Cole” as they discuss
issues surrounding the Supreme Court.
2019:
“New York Fashion Rediscovered 1982-1992,” an exhibit curated by Ya’ara Keydar
is scheduled to open today.
https://www.zaz10ts.com/nyfashionrediscovered
2019:
In Jerusalem, The Train Station is scheduled to host its interactive “Our IDF”
interactive exhibit.
2019:
In London, JW3 is scheduled to host the final two screenings of “Blinded by the
Lights.”
2019:
Shiva ends this morning for Deb Levin, Devorah Elisheva https://www.crescentcityjewishnews.com/deb-levin-supporter-of-this-day-in-jewish-history-passes-away-in-iowa/
2020:
The Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival is scheduled to come to an
end today.
2020:
After reaching a record high of 42 degrees Celsius, residents of Jerusalem are
expected to enjoy temperatures of a brisk 39 degrees Celsius today “according
to the Yerushamayim weather forecasting website.”
2020:
In Jerusalem, the Eden Tamir Music Center is scheduled to “Mozart – The Best of
Chamber Music” as performed by the Toscanini Quarter with clarinetist Jonathan
Hadas.
2020:
B’nai Jeshurun is scheduled to host its week Torah study program “Starbucks,
Bread and Torah” online.
2020:
The Axelrod Israel Jewish Film Festival in Partnership withThe American
Sephardi Federation
Is
scheduled to continue to present The Virtual Sephardic Film Festival
2020:
Temple Israel of Boston is scheduled to host online “Clergy Havdalah, Cocktails
and Mocktails.”
2020(16th
of Elul, 5780): Parashat Ki Tavo;
2021:
Jewish Baby Network and PJ Library East Bay are scheduled to host an outdoor event with song, dance, puppets,
apples and honey and shofar-blowing as part of an erev Rosh Hashanah event.
2021:
OFJCC and BINA: The Jewish Movement for Social Chang are scheduled to host
“Rosh Hashanah: The New Basics” where in an outdoor setting attendees can learn
about “the origins of customs such as shofar blowing, apples and honey and
tashlich, and why there are so many Jewish holidays all in one month.”
2021:
In London, S&P Sephardi Senior Rabbi Joseph Dweck is scheduled to give a
lecture “Mind Your business: The role of mental health in Teshuvah.”
202:
The online version of the 16th Arthur Rubenstein International Piano
Master Competition is scheduled to come to an end today.
2021: The
Paralympic Games in Tokyo, during which swimmer Iyad Shalabi made history by
becoming the first Israeli-Arab athlete
to win a medal in the Olympics or Paralympics” are scheduled to come to an end
today.
2021: On the eve of the Jewish new
year, world Jewry numbered around 15.2 million people, the Jewish Agency said
in a report published today. (As reported by Itamar Eichner)
2021: The New York Times features reviews of books by
Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readings including Reign
of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump by
Spencer Ackerman
2021:
The final showing of “Untitled (inflatable house, zip ties, blower), a solo
project by New York-based artist and 2020-2021 A.I.R. Fellow Bat-Ami Rivlin” is
scheduled to take place today.
2022:
In San Ramon, CA, “Limmud Bay Area,” a two day learning event is scheduled to
come to an end today.
2022:
In Lawrence, MA, the Bread and Roses Heritage Festival is scheduled to present
the internationally acclaimed klezmer ensemble Ezekiel’s Wheels Klezmer Band.
2022:
Fiftieth anniversary of eleven Israeli athletes being taken hostage by 8
members of the Palestinian terrorist organization, Black September who had
broken into the quarters of the Israeli delegation at the Olympic Village in
Munich.
2022:
As Labor Day is celebrated in the United States, Jews, who are commanded to
Labor for six days before they can rest, might want to contemplate their
changing views and roles in the history of the American Labor Movement (Lest we
forget, in the garment industry it was often Jewish owners versus Jewish
sweatshop workers
http://www.csjo.org/resources/essays/jews-in-the-american-labor-movement/
https://www.marxists.org/subject/jewish/herberg-labor.pdf
http://www.jewishlaborcommittee.org/2006/01/readings_on_the_american_jewis_1.html
http://www.ajwnews.com/archives/14322
http://magazine.discoverjcc.com/the-jewish-people-and-the-american-labor-movement/
2023:
URJ is scheduled to host a panel on climate justice.
2023:
Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture by Trudy Gold on “Lloyd
Geroge and the Jews.”
2023:
The exhibition “Etrog: The Wandering Fruit” is scheduled to open at the Bernard
Museum of Judaica.
2023:
Kościuszko Foundation Art Show in Connection with the New Film “A
Pocketful of Miracles” in which “Aviva Kempner chronicles her mother Hanka
and uncle Dudek Ciesla’s lives before and during World War II” is scheduled to
reopen today.
2023:
Sgt. Maksym Molchanov, an off-duty Israeli soldier killed in a truck-ramming
terror attack near the central city of Modiin last week, is scheduled to be buried “5 p.m. at the Kiryat Shaul
military cemetery in Tel Aviv.” (As reported by Emanuel Fabian)
2024:
Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture by Trudy Gold on “Foundation
Course: The Jews and the Crisis of Modernity: Part 1.”
2024:
In partnership with Tribe 12, connecting
20s/30s to Jewish Life and community, The Weitzman Museum is scheduled to
present a performance by Hadar McNeil.
2024(2nd
of Elul, 5784): In Little Rock, AR Rabbi Pinchas Ciment, the Lamplighter Par Excellence
and his wife Estie Ciment are scheduled to host the Bar Mitzvah celebration for their son Moshe.
2024:
Friends and family look forward to celebrating the natal day anniversary of the
coolest nephew in the world Joel Rosenstein
2024:
In Cedar Rapids, the unveiling of the monster mural by Edward Bruns which was painstakingly restored by Kathryn Levin is scheduled to take place this evening
2024:
The Yeshiva University Museum is scheduled a guided tour of the exhibition “Tapestries
by Shoshana Comet: From Survival to Strength” led by Curator Ilana Burstein
Benson.
2024:
JWA is scheduled to host Zilka Joseph, the author of Sweet Malida: Memoirs of a
Bene Israel Woman.
2024:
The Streicker Center is schedule to present “It Takes Two to Torah” during
which “an Orthodox Rabbi and Reform Journalist discuss and debate their way
through the Five Books of Moses.”
2024:
The Marlene Meyerson, JCC is scheduled to host the opening reception of
“Hamas,” an “ exhibition that explores the iconic motif of the open hand
with five outstretched fingers, a widely prevalent symbol across visual, folk,
and popular culture.”
2024:
As September 5th 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 335 in captivity. (Editor’s note: this situation is too fluid
for this blog to cover so we are just providing a snapshot as of the posting at
midnight Israeli time)
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