This Day, April 7, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L

April 7

180: Saint Hegesippus, the second
century historian who was an opponent of various “heresies” and whom Eusebius
contended was a “convert from Judaism” because “he quoted from the Hebrew, was
acquainted with the Gospel according to the Hebrews…and also cited unwritten
traditions of the Jews” passed away today.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Hegesippus

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07194a.htm

451: Attila the Hun sacked Metz in what
is now Germany as he pillaged his across Europe.  Based on the Thirteenth Tribe, there
are those who contend that a large proportion of Europe’s Jews were descended
from the Khazars a warrior people connected to Attila.

529: The Roman Emperor Justinian issued
the first draft of the Corpus Juris Civilis. Justinian codified the anti-Jewish
imperial view of the world that began under Constantine. The code made “anyone who was not
connected to the Christian church a non-citizen.” More specifically, the
principle of “Servitude of the Jews” (Servitus Judaeorum) was
established by the new laws and determined the status of Jews throughout the
Empire for hundreds of years. The Jews were disadvantaged in a number of ways.
Jews could not testify against Christians and were disqualified from holding a
public office. Jewish civil and religious rights were restricted: ‘they shall
enjoy no honors.’ The use of the Hebrew language in worship was forbidden.
Shema Yisrael sometimes considered the most important prayer in Judaism
(“Hear, O Israel, YHWH our God, YHWH is one”) was banned, as a denial
of the Trinity. A Jew who converted to Christianity was entitled to inherit his
or her father’s estate, to the exclusion of the still-Jewish brothers and
sisters. The Emperor became an arbiter in internal Jewish affairs. Similar laws
applied to the Samaritans.”

1285: After a journey of almost two
years “German Talmudist Judah ben Asher” arrived in Toledo, Spain today.

1348: 
In the first year of the reign of Charles IV, Charles University is
founded in Prague. Charles was an enlightened ruler whose years on the throne
were good ones for the Jews of Prague. “The long reign of Emperor Charles IV brought
the Prague Jews new privileges and relative calm even. The king ensured
protection and, among others, offered a chance for them to settle inside the
walls of the arising New Town. A sign of the status of the Jewish community is
a banner that has survived, given to the Jews of Prague by Charles IV in 1375. From
that year on the Jews would, over the centuries, come to the gates of the
ghetto to welcome the kings of Bohemia in Prague. The banner was a shield and
legacy of the favors of the ruler’s predecessor, a symbol of ambition and sign
of hope.” Today Charles University is the home base for a Jewish Studies
program offered to American college students that examines the history of
Central European Jewry

1486:  The first prayer book (Siddur) was printed in
Italy by Soncino. This was the only time that the Siddur was published during
the 15th century. For the most part hand copied manuscripts (of which there
were plenty) continued to be used.

1498: Louis
XII who ordered the expulsion of the Jews from Provence began his reign today.

1506: In
Portugal, a group of New Christians was arrested when they were caught
conducting a Seder.  Although they were
released two Dominican firiars “who paraded through the streets with an
uplifted crucifix crying Heresia so inflamed the citizenry that 500
hundred New Christians were murdered on the first day of a multi-day massacre

1615: In
Worms, members of the Guilds riot as part of an attempt to force the Jews to
leave.

1645: Michael
Cardozo became the 1st Jewish lawyer in Brazil. The Dutch West India Company
granted Michael Cardoso the right to practice law in Brazil a privilege no
other Jew enjoyed at that time anywhere else.  The Dutch would shortly
lose control of Brazil to the Portuguese.  And in 1654, it would be a group
of Jewish refugee from Recife (part of formerly Dutch Brazil) who would land in
New Amsterdam to begin the modern American Jewish Community.

1654: Manuel
Teieira (Isaac Hayyim Senior Teixeira), the Lisbon born son of Diego Teixeira
and Sara d’Andrade who followed in his father’s footsteps as “the financial
agent and resident minister of Queen Cristian of Sweden married his second wife
Esther Gomez des Mesquita today in Hamburg, Germany

https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/14351-texeira

1720: At one
of the last large auto-de-fe’s in Madrid, was burned five suspected Jews who
were found to have committed the crime of praying in a “secret
synagogue” which had been found after the Spanish war of Succession.

1738: “The
will of Abraham Mende Seixas, otherwise known as Miguel Pacheco DA Silva, last
of the Paris of Dunstans, Stepney, County of Middlesex was proved in London”
today “and letters of administration granted to Rodrigo Pacheo and Daniel
Mendes Seixas, executors.”

1740:
Birthdate of Leszno, Poland native Haym Solomon, the husband of Rachel Heilbron
and father of Ezekiel Salomon; Sarah Andrews; Deborah Myers-Cohen and Haym
Moses Salomon who was the American patriot best known for providing financing
for the American Revolution for which he was never compensated and led to his
death in a state of poverty.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Haym-Salomon

https://www.nps.gov/revwar/about_the_revolution/haym_salomom.HTML

1750:
Birthdate of Dettensee, Germany native Bearle Weil, the husband of Rosele Katz
and the father of Esther and Elcha Weil.

1750: In
Germany, Juttle and Jakob Weil gave birth to Kehle Weil, the wife of Seligman
Loeb Lindauer and the mother of Bessie, Manasse, and Salomon Lindauer. 

1754(15^th
of Nisan, 5514): Pesach

1754: As Jews
munched on their matzah, a, party of French soldiers was on the third day of
its march to stop the English from building a fort at the confluence of the
Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers (modern day Pittsburgh) which would lead to
the battle in May in which George Washington led the British forces and which
is considered by historians to being the start of the French and Indian War.

1762(14^th
of Nisan, 5522): Erev Pesach; first seder observed two days after the British
had seized Grenada in the West Indies

1764(5^th
of Nisan, 5524):Parashat Metzora is chanted as Boston deals with a smallpox
epidemic that had broken out in January

1767: Christian
Old Testament scholar, Johann Gottlob Carpzov, a member of the Carpzov family
who specialized in the study of Hebrew and the Old Testament passed away.
Carpzov authored Apparatus
Historico-Criticus Antiquitatum et Codicis Sacri et Gentis Hebrææ in 1748.
“According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, Carpzov represents both an advance and a
retrogression in Biblical science — an advance in fullness of material and
clearness of arrangement (his Introductio is the first work that deserves the
name), and a retrogression in critical analysis, for he held fast to the
literal inspiration of the Hebrew text of the Old Testament and bitterly
opposed the freer positions of Simon, Spinoza, and Clericus. His antiquarian
writings are still interesting and useful.”

1768(20^th
of Nisan, 5528): Sixth of Pesach observed on the same day that Abigail Adams
wrote to John Adams, future President of the United States about an outbreak of
smallpox.

1773(14^th
of Nisan, 5533): Erev Pesach; first seder as Parliament prepared to pass the
Tea Act which was   designed to save the
British East India Company by granting it a monopoly on the North American tea
trade but would turn out to be one of the steppingstones that led to the
American Revolution.

1781:
Birthdate of Berlin philanthropist Abraham Muhr

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0014_0_14351.html

1783: In
Amsterdam, Branca Levie Duijts and Simon Isaac Frankfort gave birth to Gompers
Simon Frankfort.

1787: Lemon
Hart, the grandson of Abraham Hart who had arrived in Penzance which had “a
thriving Jewish community during the 18^th and 19^th
centuries” and who was the co-owner of the ship the Nancy and Betsy which was
registered today in Penzance.

1788: American
settlers establish Marietta, Ohio, the first new American settlement in the
Northwest Territory.   Apparently, a
thriving Jewish community existed in Marietta during the last part of the 19^th
century and the first part of the 20^th century as can be seen by the
existence of two Jewish cemeteries, a Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, the Jewish
War Suffers’ Society and a synagogue called B’nai Israel.

1792(15^th
of Nisan, 5552): First Day of Pesach and Shabbat observed on the same day that
Arthur St. Clair wrote to President Washington saying he was resigning his
commission as a Major General in the U.S. Army so that others might be
appointed to lead American forces in a campaign on “the frontier” because his
leadership or lack there-of was the subject of an official inquiry.

1803(15^th
of Nisan, 5563): First Day of Pesach

1806(18^th
of Nisan, 5556): Fifth Day of Pesach

1806: As Jews
munched on matzot. hunters with Lewis and Clark set out in search of Elk.

1807:
Birthdate of Ridley Haim Herschell, the Polish born Jew who converted and
founded the British Society Propagating the Gospel Among the Jews in 1842.

1810:
Twenty-one-year-old George Hartog, “a surgeon in the King’s German Legion” who
was “one of the un-sung heroes of the Battle of Waterloo” got “his medical
doctorate” today.

1813(7^th
of Nisan, 5573): Birkat Hachamah observed on the same day that the British
bombarded Lewes, DL during the War of 1812.

1814(17^th
of Nisan, 5574): Third Day of Pesach

1814(17^th
of Nisan, 5574): Bernard
Mordechi Kornfeld passed away today in Czechoslovakia.

1817(21^st
of Nisan, 5577): Seventh Day of Pesach

1817: In Liverpool,
Hannah Wolf and Myer Tobias gave birth to Frederick Meyer Tobias.

1818: In Ḳin’at ha-Emet
(Zeal for Truth), a paper written today, and published in the collection “Nogah
ha-Ẓedeḳ” (Light of Righteousness), Aron Chorin a Hungarian rabbi and advocated
for religious reform, declared himself in favor of reforms, such as German
prayers, the use of the organ, and other liturgical modifications. The
principal prayers, the Shema’, and the eighteen benedictions, however, should
be said in Hebrew, he declared, as this language keeps alive the belief in the
restoration of Israel. He also pleaded for opening the temple for daily
service.

1822(16th of
Nisan, 5582): Second Day of Pesach; first day of the Omer

1822: As Jews
munched on their Matzot, former President Thomas Jefferson wrote to his
successor, former President James Madison.

1826:
Birthdate of Frederick C. Salomon, the Prussian native came to the United
States where he worked as a surveyor and Register of Deeds in Wisconsin before
joining the Union Army where he served with distinction and was mustered out as
Major General of Volunteers.

1828: In
Germany, Caroline and Simon Strauser gave birth to Chicago resident Rosine
Greenbaum, the wife of Elias E Greenebaum and mother of Dr. Henry Everett
Greenebaum; Moses Ernst Greenebaum, Sr.; Emma Eleanor Gutman and James Eugene
Greenebaum

1830(14^th
of Nisan, 5590): Ta’anit Bechorot; Erev Pesach observed as Congress was
considering passage of the “Indian Removal Act, the first major legislative
departure from the U.S. policy of officially respecting the legal and political
rights of the American Indians.”

1833(18^th
of Nisan, 5593): Fourth Day of Pesach observed on the same day that Prince
Antoni Radzwill who “in 1808 controlled only twelve Jews in three villages in
the district of Pinsk” passed away.

1834: A
version of Giacomo Meyerbeer’s “The Fiend-Father” was presented today in New
York.

1836(20^th
of Nisan, 5596): Sixth Day of Pesah observed as in Texas, Santa Anna arrived in
San Felipe de Austin, the largest town in Stephen F. Austin’s colony and the de
facto capitol of the colonies and was engaged by company commanded by Captain
Mosely Baker which was left behind to fight a rear-guard action to protect the
rest of the army led by Sam Houston.

1840: In
Kecskemet, Hungary, Samuel Goldstein and is wife gave birth to Vienna educated
Cantor who for 12 years served “Congregations Ansche Chesed and Shaar
Hashomayim in New York City before leading K.K. Bene Israel at Cincinnati, OH
in 1880.

1844(18^th
of Nisan, 5604): Fourth Day of Pesach observed on the same day that Mormon
Leader Joseph Smith delivered the King Follett Discourse about the nature of
God and man.

1844(18^th
of Nisan, 5604): Thirty-seven-year-old Mrs. Cecilia Frances Moses Moise, the
Charleston born daughter of Isaac Clifton Moses and Hanna Lazarus Moses and the
wife of Major Theodore Sidney Moise passed away today in New Orleans ate which
she was buried in the Gates of Mercy Cemetery.

1845:
Birthdate of German native and future St. Louis resident Emma Kornick Meyberg,
the wife of hat manufacturer Jonas Meyberg and the mother of Bertha, Mitchel,
Eugee, Jacob, Aimee and Saidee Meyberg.

1847(21^st
of Nisan, 5607): Seventh of Pesach observed as American forces under General
Scott advance on Cerro Gordo where the Mexicans under Santa Anna are waiting in
entrenched positions.

1848: Baron Jozsef Eotvos,
Hungarian statesman and who supported the emancipation of the Jews became
Minister of Education.

1849(15^th
of Nisan, 5609): Pesach

1849: The Pennsylvania
legislature granted a charter today to the Hebrew Education Society of
Philadelphia that “authorized the establishment of schools for general
education, combined with instruction in the Hebrew language and literature; the
charter also authorized the establishment of a “superior seminary of
learning,” with power to grant the usual degrees given by other colleges.”

1851: The
first school created under the jurisdiction of the Hebrew Education Society
held its first class today in Philadelphia, PA.

1851:
Birthdate of “German composer and conductor” Martin Roder.

https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/12794-roder-martin

1852: This
morning at the Herkimer-street Synagogue in Albany a new Sefer Torah was read
for the first time and then placed in the Holy Ark.  Following the reading Rabbi Raphall gave what
was called “an appropriate address.”

1855: At 8
Upper East Smithfield in London Abigail Moss and Marcus Samuel gave birth to
Samuel Samuel founder of Samuel Samuel & Co who served as an MP for almost
twenty years and who was the brother of Marcus Samuel, 1^st Viscount
of Bearsted.

1855: At the
behest of Samuel K. Labatt, The Los Angeles Star published “the lengthy
and effective denunciation” William Stow written by his brilliant lawyer
brother, Henry J. Labatt of San Francisco.” 
Stow is William Stow who had launched an anti-Semitic attack on the
Jewish people from the sanctuary of the California State Assembly. Samuel K.
Labatt was the first President of the Hebrew Benevolent Society of Los Angeles.
He saw part of his role as being the defender of Jews against anti-Semites.

1857:
Birthdate of Yanceyville, NC native Maurice Fels, the son of Bavarian born
Lazarus Fels.

1858: In
Frankfort-on-Main Hermann and Helene (Stiebel) Blumenthal gave birth to foreign
exchange banker and “head the U.S. branch of Lazard Freres” George Blumenthal,
the husband of Florence Meyer and Mary Payne Clews, the father of George
Blumenthal, Jr., the son-in-law of fellow banker Marc E. Meyer and the
brother-in-law of Eugene Meyer, the publisher and owner of the Washington Post
whose good works included serving as President of the Mt. Sinai Hospital.

1859: In
Munkacs, Hungary, David Samuel Gottesman and Chaya (Helen) Rivka Gottesman gave
birth to Mendel Gottesman the husband of Sarah Gottesman with whom he had six
children including David Samuel Gottesman “Hungarian-born, American pulp-paper
merchant, financier and philanthropist.”

1859:
In Mayen, German, importer Benedict Loeb and Barbara Isay Loeb gave birth to
Isaak Loeb who gained fame as German physiologist Jacques Loeb.

https://biography.yourdictionary.com/jacques-loeb

1860(15^th
of Nisan, 5620): As the war clouds that will bring the Civil War begin to form
in earnest during the U.S. Presidential elections, Jews observe Pesach.

1860:  A review of The History of Herodotus
by George Rawlinson published today compared the writings of the ancient Greek
Historian with information found in the Bible. The reviewer gives credence to
the progression of history as presented in the Scripture. “The Hezekiahs, the
Isaiahs, the Jacobs, the Zerubbabels, the Maccabees, the Gamaliels,…could never
have appeared as the later records describe them, had there been no Samuel, no
Joshua, no Moses, no Exodus from Egypt, no law-giving on Sinai, as represented
to us in the marvelous yet truthful pictures of the more ancient books.”

1861: Sinai
Congregation which was led by Rabbi Felsenthal and President Schoeneman was
established in Chicago

1861: Forty
year old Prussian born tobacconist Samuel Gluckstein the son of Lehman Meyer
Gluckstein and Helena Horn who had come to Britain ten years ago was now living
at  37, High Street, Whitechapel, London

1862: The
Battle of Shiloh ends with a Union Victory. Among the many Jews serving at the
battle was Corporal David Orbansky of the 58^th Ohio Volunteer
Infantry who won the Medal of Honor for his “gallantry in action against the
enemy.”

1863(18^th
of Nisan, 5623): Fourth Day of Pesach

1863: In
England, David Cohen and Josephine Cohen 
gave birth to Henry Cohen, the graduate of Jews’ College, who served as
rabbi at several congregations included, the Amalgamated Congregation of
Israelites in Kingston, Jamaica, Congregation Beth Israel in Woodville,
Mississippi and Congregation B’nai Israel in Galveston, Texas as well as being
the Librarian of the Texas Historical Society, an executive board member of the
Jewish Publication Society of America and the American Jewish Historical
Society and following the historic hurricane, the Central Relief Committee of
the Galveston Storm Sufferers.

1864(1^st
of Nisan, 5624): Rosh Chodesh Nisan

1864: In
Watertown, Wisconsin, Nancy (Levensen) Blumenfeld and David Blumenthal, a 1848
German émigré to the United States gave birth to R.D. (Ralph David) Blumenthal,
the husband of Daisie Blumenfeld, who enjoyed a successful journalistic career
in the United States with such papers as James Gordon Bennett’s New York
Journal before moving to the United Kingdom where he led prestigious such
papers as The Observer, The Sunday Times and the Daily Express.

http://www.watertownhistory.org/Articles/Blumenfeld,%20Ralph.htm

https://archives.parliament.uk/collections/getrecord/GB61_BLU

1865: In
Amsterdam, Rebecca Mozes Gans, the Dutch born daughter of Moses Jacob Pereira
Mendoza and Sara Josua Pereira Mendoza and her husband Jacob Moses Gans gave
birth to Alexander Gans

1865:
Birthdate of Gustav Freund who was deported from Prague in June of 1942 to
Terezin where he was murdered in August.

1866(22^nd
of Nisan, 5626): Eight day of Pesach and Shabbat as the Congress is the process
of overriding President Johnson’s veto of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 which
will become the law of the land on April 9, 1866.

1867: Two days
after he had passed away, 43-year-old Michael Simeon, the son of Sarah Rees and
Peter Simeon, the husband of the former Augusta Phillips and the father of
Frank Simeon, was bured today at the Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.”

1867: Sir
George Faudel-Phillips, the “second son of Sir Benjamin Samuel Phillips” and
the future Lord Mayor of London married Helen Levy, the “daughter of Joseph
Moses Levy, the owner of the London Daily
Telegraph.

1868(15^th
of Nisan, 5628): Pesach

1868(15^th
of Nisan, 5628): Rabbi Carl Heinemann passed away.  He was hired as the first rabbi in Goteborg,
Sweden in 1837 but was forced to resign in 1851 after he opposed the
introduction of “radical reform measures.”

1870(16th of
Nisan, 5631): Second Day of Pesach; 1^st day of the Omer

1870: In
Karlsruhe, “Rosa (Neuberger) and Herman Landauer gave birth to their “second
child,”German anarchist Gustav Landauer.

1870:
According to the review of the Art Academy, on this date, Russian –Jewish
sculptor Mark Arntokolski “was granted personal name of honorary citizen ‘for
wonderful knowledge of art’”.

1872:
Seventy-year-old, W.L. Mitchell, a Professor at the Georgia State University
Law School, has begun to study Hebrew. [Ed. Note – I have not been able to find
out anything about Professor Mitchell i.e. whether he was Jewish or a Christian
who was following what had become a popular pastime among 18^th &
19^th century Protestants.]

1875: In
Ukraine, Michael Pofcher and Rose Nizel Pofcher gave birth to Louis Pofcher,
the brother of David, Abram, Elias and Simon Pofcher.

1875:
Birthdate of Hungarian born American attorney Bernard Alexander.

1876:
In Philadelphia, Rabbi Jacob Vorzanger, the Amsterdam born Son of Wolf Levie
Voorzanger and Aaltje Voorzanger and his wife Eva Jacob Voorsanger gave birth
to University of California graduate William Cooper Voorsanger the husband of
Maude Voorsanger and  the Cooper Medical
School trained physician who was the medical director of the Oaks Sanitarium.

1877:
Birthdate of Buffalo native Samuel Jacob Harris, the University of Buffalo
trained attorney and New York State Supreme Court Judge.

1877: In the
Netherland, Simon Jacobs, the son of Ravel Beer Jacobs and Diena Jacobs and his
wife Marianna Jacobs gave birth to Jacob Abraham Jacobs the husband of Louise
Jacobs and father of Marianna JACOBS; Barend Lion Jacobs and Simon Maurits
Jacobs who was murdered at Sobibor in 1943.

1878: Three
days after she had passed away, the former Lydia Abraham, the wife of Alexander
Levy with whom she had had five children was buried today in the “Balls Pond
Road Jewish Cemetery.”

1879(14^th
of Nisan, 5639): Fast of the First Born; erev Pesach

1879: Three
days after he had passed away, 15-year-old John Henry Hart Simmons, the son of
Henry Simmons and Fanny Hart was buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham Road)
Jewish Cemetery.”

1880:
Birthdate of multi-talented performer Fritz Grünbaum who gave his last
performance to fellow inmates at Dachau just days before his death.

http://holocaustmusic.ort.org/places/camps/music-early-camps/dachau/grnbaumfritz/

1880: In
Leadville, CO, Jewish businessman Jacob Schloss was elected treasurer of the
Turnverin Society.

1880: In
Kremai Russia, “Hirsch and Hannah (Levine) Garbovitsky gave birth to Vera
Garbovitsky who gained fame as Rebecca Schweitzer, the
wife of Peter J. Schwietzer, “the largest importer and exporter of cigarette
paper in the United States who used their fortune for philanthropy and support
of the embryonic Zionist movement.

https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/schweitzer-rebecca

https://www.vera.org/blog/vera-schweitzer-the-vera-institutes-worthy-namesake

1880: Two days
after he had passed away Isaac Goldsmith was buried today at the “West Ham
Jewish Cemetery.”

1880: Rabbi
H.P. Mendez officiated at the wedding of Frederick Nathan, the son of the late
Benjamin Nathan and Maud Nathan, daughter of Robert W. Nathan, which was held
at Shearith Israel in New York City.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A00EEDC1F31EE3ABC4053DFB266838B699FDE

1881:
In Russia, Etta Feinberg and Isaac Nevin gave birth to N.Y. College of
Dentistry graduate Nevin Mendel Nevin the husband of Mollie Woonock who in1900
came to the United States where he “organized Novocol Chemical Mfg. Company,
the manufactures of local anesthetics” and served as the President of the Kings
County Dental Society while belonging to Union Temple in Brooklyn.

1882:
In New York, Joseph Deutsch, the “son of Moses Deutsch and Sarah Levy” and his
wife Theresa Deutsch gave birth to Morris Deutsch

1883:
In “A Movement to Unite Three Congregations” published today, the Brooklyn
Eagle described attempts by Brooklyn’s three leading synagogues, Baith Israel,
Beth Elohim, and Temple Israel to merge.

1883:
Birthdate of Maksymilian Apolinary Hartglas, the Hungarian born Zionist
activist who was one of the main political leaders of Polish Jews during the
interwar period, a lawyer, a publicist, and a Sejm deputy from 1919 to 1930.

1885:
Birthdate of Ukrainian native Edward Dato who came to the United States in 1914
where he attended Northwestern and became an engineer and realtor in Chicago.

1888(25th
of Nisan, 5648): Fifty-year old Russian businessman and philanthropist Samuel
Polyakov the brother of Lazar Polyakov and Yakov Polyakov, known as the “railroad
king” and founder of “World ORT” passed away today in St. Petersburg.

1885:
Birthdate of Bialystok native Mordechai Yavorosky, the Antwerp Hebrew
instructor and diamond cutter known as author Mordecai Lipson who in 1913 where
he wrote in Yiddish and published two volumes of sayings and jokes entitled
“The People Tell” (Dos folk dertzeylt) before moving to Palestine in 1930.

https://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/yt/lex/L/lipson-m.htm

1891:
In Leadville, CO, Lotta Schloss married Moses L Stern who became secretary and
treasurer of Schloss Bros.1891: Birthdate of British born, New Zealand
cartoonist, Sir David Low.  Low was not
Jewish but he was an early and constant critic of Hitler and Mussolini.  Throughout the 1930’s his cartoons skewered
the fascist dictators with such skill that no a less a personage than Sigmund
Freud wrote, “”A Jewish refugee from Vienna, a very old man personally
unknown to you, cannot resist the impulse to tell you how much he admires your
glorious art and your inexorable, unfailing criticism.”

1891:
The cornerstone of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society’s new building was
laid this afternoon at 3 o’clock.

1891:
Twenty-eight-year-old German Jewish immigrant Siegfried Lewisohn shot himself
twice in the left breast today at 29 Sutton Place in New York.

 

1892:
John L. Stoddard delivered an illustrated lecture designed as “an excursion to
Jerusalem and the Holy Land.”

1893(21^st
of Nisan, 5653): Seventh day of Pesach

1893(21^st
of Nisan, 5653): Joel Joe, the son of Isaac Joel and Rebecca Solomon, husband
of Catherine Isaacs and he son-in-law of Isaac Isaacs and Leah Harris passed
away today.

1895:
It is expected that several liquor dealers who bought “bootleg” Kosher wine
from a Russian Jew known as “Gordon” will be arraigned today for failure to pay
the appropriate revenue taxes.

1895:
“Free Sons of Israel” published today traces the history of Independent Order
of Free Sons of Israel” which was founded in 1849 by German Jews and has grown
to be one of the leading Jewish organizations of its kind throughout the United
States.

1895:
It was reported today that during his service as Chairman of the Committee on
Endowment for the Free Sons of Israel, William A. Gans has written checks
totaling $2,300,000 to provide aid for widows and orphans.

1896:
Congressman Amos J. Cummings will deliver an address about Horace Greely, as
the last lecture “of the regular season’s course under the auspices of the
Young Men’s Hebrew Association.

1896:
The Union Veteran Hebrew Association met today in New York City.

1896:
Three days after he had passed away, 76 year old John Goodman Levy, the son of
Goodman and Rebecca Levy and the husband of Maria Goodman was buried today at
the “West Ham Jewish Cemetery”1896: Birthdate Benjamin Leiner, the son of
Orthodox Jews, who as Benny Leonard learned his boxing trade on the streets of
New York.  Leonard was Light Heavyweight Champion for seven and half
years.  He was one of several Jewish boxing champs during the early
decades of the twentieth century. Leonard was proud of being Jewish and was
quoted that Jews were suited by nature to boxing because it was the highest
form of self-defense. 

http://www.boxing.com/the_day_benny_leonard_died.html

1896: Hermann
Ahlwardt, the German anti-Semitic agitator and his two American sponsors are
expected to be arraigned for their part in provoking a riot in Hoboken, NJ
during which Ahlwardt reportedly drew a pistol and threatened the mob
protesting his appearance.

1897(5^th
of Nisan, 5657): Sixty-seven year old Herman Moses Cone, the Bavarian born “son
of Moses Kahn” and the brother-in-law of Jacob Adler with whom he opened
company in Jonesboro, TN that sold household goods and ready to wear clothing
who later went into the real estate business while raising two sons, Moses and
Ceasar Cone with his wife Helen Guggenheimer Cone passed away today in
Baltimore, MD after which he was buried in the Oheb Shalom Cemetery.

1897: It was
reported today that Oscar S. Straus, Isaac Wallack, Emanuel Lehman, Isaac
Eppinger and Samuel M. Schafer were among the dignitaries who had attended the
funeral services of the late Julius Ehrmann.

1897: Orthodox
Jews through the world celebrated the “festival of the new sun” which “comes
once every 28 years on the fourth day of the first week of Nisan.”

1897: While
most services for The Blessing of the New Sun, Birkat Hachama, were held
without any problems in New York City, including one held on the banks of the
East River, an observance at Tompkins Park was marred by the arrest of the
officiating Rabbis.  Rabbi Wechsler and
Rabbi Klein had told their congregants to gather at the square.  Since the service had to be completed by nine
o’clock, a large group had already gathered by eight when local police appeared
on the scene.  They were concerned about
the threat posed to the public safety by such a large gathering.  Nobody had thought to get a permit and the
two Rabbis were taken away since their English was not effective enough to
convey the purpose of the gathering.  A
magistrate later released them with a warning. 
In the mean time, the Jews in the square conducted the service without
the benefit of clergy.

1897:
Birthdate of Walter Winchell.  The son of Jewish immigrants, Winchell left
school at the age of 13 to go into vaudeville.  He appeared with other
such Jewish beginners as Eddie Cantor.  Winchell’s career took a different
turn.  He entered the world of journalism where he invented the gossip
column.  Winchell’s column appeared in 2,000 papers every day and his
1930’s radio show was heard by 50 million listeners.  Winchell had his
friends and his foes.  Both agreed that Winchell outlived himself and he died
a much diminished figure in 1972.  However, he is another example of a Jew
inventing something that was considered to be uniquely American.

1898(15^th
of Nisan, 5658): Pesach

1899:
“Dramatic and Musical” published today described Herr Adolf Sonnenthal’s recent
portrayal of the lead character in “Nathan the Wise” which was described as
“his greatest success.”  The audience
burst into spontaneous, uncontrolled applause when uttered the monologue during
the third act in which “Nathan commenting on Saladin’s desire for money asks,
‘Who is here the Jew?’”

1899: “In Aid
of the Hebrew Infant Asylum” published today described the plans for the
upcoming fundraiser sponsored by the Young Folks’ League of Hebrew Infant
Asylum that has 500 members and has raised over $6,000 in the last two years to
support the institution.

1899:”
Musicale in Aid of Hebrew Institute” published today described the successful
fund raiser held at Sherry’s which raised $4,000 for the Hebrew Technical
Institute.

1900(8^th
of Nissan, 5660): Shabbat HaGadol

1900(8^th
of Nissan, 5660): Zionist poet Isaac Rabinowitz passed away.

1901(18^th
of Nisan, 5661) Fourth Day of Pesach

1901(18^th
of Nisan, 566): Hillel Kahane, teacher and worker for the
“Enlightenment,” passed away at Bottuschan.

1901: “Jew and
Chess” published today expressed surprise that “a large percentage of the most
famous Chess players are Jewish” including one of the Rothschilds who is “known
to be a first-class amateur” because “no player has yet made a fortune out
chess and many of the great masters find it difficult to make even a mere
living from the game.” (Editor’s note: Genteel anti-Semitism mixed in with the
Shylock myth)

1902:
Birthdate of Leo “Red” Klauber. “the captain of the 1923 CCNY team, which had a
12-1 record. Considered one of the best teams in the country that year, their
only loss was to Syracuse 31-30

1903: Second
day of the First Kishinev Pogrom

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-kishinev-pogrom-1903

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/04/the-pogrom-that-transformed-20th-century-jewry/

1904(22^nd
of Nisan, 5664): 8^th day of Pesach

1904: While
speaking to the Baptist Social Union of New York tonight, “Oscar S. Straus, the
ex-Minister of Turkey and a member of the Hauge Peace Tribunal said “that
Russia had turned her face backward and the war with Japan was the result” and
“that the redit for giving force to the Hague Tribunal belonged to President
Roosevelt.”

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1904/04/08/117939931.html?pageNumber=9

 

1905: It was
reported today that the “Cohn-Baer-Myers-Aronson Company and the Broadway
Reliance Reality Company have sold to Henry and Morris Goldstein the block
front on east side of Robbins Avenue, between 139^th and 140^th
Streets…”

1906(12^th
of Nisan, 5666): Parashat Tzav; Shabbat HaGadol

1906: The
Algeciras Conference, which had been convened to settle the dispute between
France and Germany over Morocco, came to an end. During the conference, the
United States raised the issue of the mistreatment of the Jews in the North
African kingdom.  U.S. Ambassador White
said, “the American government has always considered it duty…to assure due
respect to all religious beliefs…My government has charged me to invoke the
cooperation of the Conference…regarding the wishes for the welfare of the
Israelites of Morocco.” According to Abraham Bloch, the European powers
attending the conference supported the American position.  This included Russia whose anti-Semitic
policies had forced untold numbers Jews to live in misery or leave the country,
France which had been dealing with Dreyfus wave of anti-Semitism and Spain
which had expelled it Jews en masse in 1492.

1907:
“Roumanian Jews Barbarously Used” published today described hos “anti-Semitic
agitation is used as a political weapon” and reported that “the recent outbreak
of Anti-Semitic riots…has added enormously to the misery of the Roumanian
Jews,” fifty thousand of whom are homeless and/or facing starvation.”

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1907/04/07/106112109.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0

1908: H. H. Asquith of the Liberal
Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Herbert Henry Asquith served as Prime
Minister until 1916 when he was replaced by Lloyd George.  In a private letter written before he became
Prime Minister, Asquith described the Jews as “a scattered and unattractive
tribe.”  He did enjoy the friendship of
Jews including Edwin
Montagu who would become the new P.M.’s private secretary. Montagu and Asquith
would have a falling out over the affections of Venetia Stanley, a friend of
Asquith’s daughter.  Montagu gained fame
as one of the British Jews who opposed the Balfour Declaration. During the
1930’s, Asquith’s daughter befriended Vladimir Jabotinsky. She is the one who
introduced him to Winston Churchill.  One
of Asquith’s sons served with the British Army in Palestine during WW II.

1909(16^th
of Nisan, 5669): Second Day of Pesach “observed on the same day that U.S.
President William Howard Taft issued an executive order directing that
deaf-mutes and deaf persons would not be barred from taking the civil service
examination.”

1910: It was
reported today that in his lecture at the Holland Society, Dr. T. De Vries of
The Hague said that Palestine was one of the “three little countries which had
been of great importance to the world” because of its religious significance.

1910: “Taft
Praises The Jews” published today quotes Republican President Taft telling
delegates to the B’nai B’rith convention that “There is no people so much
entitled as” the Jews “to become the aristocrats of the world and yet who make
the best Republicans” and that he has “profound admiration for the Jewish
people because they make excellent citizens” whom he is glad have “come to this
country.”

1911(9^th
of Nisan, 5671): Fifty-nine-year-old French banker and art collector Comte
Isaac de Camondo who was a member of the House of Camondo passed away today.

1912(20^th
of Nisan, 5672): Sixth Day of Pesach

1912(20^th
of Nisan, 5672): Fifty-eight-year-old physician and journalist Mark J. Lehman
passed away today in New Orleans.

1912: In
Brooklyn, Barney (Beryl) Schwartz and Fanny (Fruma) Goldman Schwartz first
cousins who had run away from their home in Belaya Tserkov (Bila Tserkva, Ukraine)
to come to America in 1904 gave birth to Jacob Louis Schwartz who gained fame
as songwriter and composer Jack Lawrence

1913: It was
reported today, that since Dr. Stephen S. Wise will be absent for the next two
months from the pulpit of the Free Synagogue his place will be taken by Nahum,
Sokolow, “who will deliver the Passover sermon,” Professor Nathanial Schmidt of
Cornell University, Unitarian minister John Haynes Holmes and “several other
Jewish ministers.”

1913(29th of
Adar II, 5673): Sixty-five-year-old Emma Roos, the Natchez, MS born daughter of
Aaron and Jeannette W. Helena Roos passed away today in New Orleans.

1914: Al McCoy, the New Jersey born Jewish boxer,  landed a powerful left to Joseph Chip’s jaw
early in the first round, lifting him off the canvas, and achieving a victory
that probably shocked the bookmakers

1914(11^th
of Nisan, 5674): Sixty-nine-year-old Julius Peyser, the Prenslau born son of
Schaye Seelig Peyser and Therese Jaffe, husband of Doris Loewenthal and father
of Paula Pyeser passed away today at Königsberg in der Neumark.

1914: Dr.
Jacob Goldstein, the rabbi of Temple Beth Sholom of Bensonshurst and the Jewish
chaplain of the Tombs and of Sing Sing said he was “shocked by the news” that
Governor Glynn had denied the application for a reprieve from four gunmen in
the death house at Sing Sing including “Lefty Louie,” the son bod Jacob
Rosnberg and “Gyp the Blood” the son of Joseph Horwitz.’

1915:
Birthdate of Eleanora Fagan, better known as “legendary songstress Billie
Holiday” who “recorded a gorgeous, impromptu cover of the Jewish classic “My
Yiddishe Mamme,” which was composed by Jack Yellen and Lew Pollack

http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/190122/billie-holidays-cover-of-my-yiddishe-mamme

1915:  In Berlin, “Carl Hirschmann, a surgeon, and
Hedwig Marcuse Hirschmann” gave birth to economist Albert Hirschman, “who in
his youth helped rescue thousands of artists and intellectuals from
Nazi-occupied France and went on to become an influential economist known for
his optimism” and was the author of Exit, Voice and Loyalty. (As
reported by William Yardley)

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/24/business/albert-o-hirschman-economist-and-resistance-figure-dies-at-97.html

https://search.worldcat.org/title/820123478

https://cup.columbia.edu/book/albert-o-hirschman/9780231199827

1915: New
York’s Governor Charles S. Whitman signed the Widowed Mothers Pension Act into
law. The new statute, which provided state-funded pensions to qualifying women
so that they could care for their children at home, was largely the result of
the efforts of communal activist and reformer Hannah Bachman Einstein.

1915: Macy’s
advertises that it is selling a “first-class shirt” in sizes 14 to 17 for “74
cents” instead of the usual one dollar.

1916(4^th
of Nisan, 5676): Eighty-two-year-old Joseph Shields, “a collector of internal
revenue,” passed away today.

1916: Reverend
Charles A. Campbell, the “pastor of the Third Street Presbyterian Church” was
reported today to have been among those attending a meeting in Dayton, Ohio
where he contributed $50 towards a fund being raised “for the relief of the
Jews” in war torn Europe.

1916: In
Manhattan, David and Anne Valentine Tishman gave birth to Robert V. Tishman, “a
real estate developer whose companies — bearing the family name since the 19th
century — etched their mark on the skylines of cities around the nation,
including construction of the World Trade Center.”

1917(15^th
of Nisan, 5677): First Day of Pesach and Shabbat

1917: Services
for the first day of Pesach were held at the South Side Hebrew Congregation on
Michigan Avenue in Chicago.

1917:
“Austrian Jews Would Aid” published today described the efforts of Rabbi Samuel
Buchler of Brooklyn and a group of Austro-Hungarian Jews to encourage “citizens
of foreign birth who are loyal to the American flag” to enlist “in the army and
navy.”

1917: In
response to yesterday’s declaration of war on Germany “loyalty and patriotic
support of American arms and democracy were urged in Passover sermons in many
synagogues” today.

1917: At
Temple Beth-El, Rabbi Samuel Schulman spoke on “Man’s Freedom, the Work of God
in History” saying that “whatever differences of opinion may have existed
before the decision” to go to war “was made they exist no longer.  We are today one people.”

1917: While
delivering “a sermon on ‘Emancipation, Old and New’ Rabbi Maurice H. Harris of
Temple Israel in Harlem predicted the coming of the democracy of the nations.”

1917: As part
of their on-going correspondence President Wilson wrote to Simon Wolfe that he
had “been particularly interest in the work” “of the Order of B’nai B’rith and
the Hebrew Congregations of the United States” in the effort to destroy so as
they can the provincialism of prejudice as between races.”

1918: Today
movie theatre mogul Abraham Joseph (A.J.) Balaban and Carrie Strump were
married today.

1918: “A
proposal” “made by Samuel Goldstein, the President of the Jewish Federation of
America” “that all Jewish organizations in the United States should be united
into a national body with Nathan Starus at the head was received with
enthusiasm at a convention of Romanian Jews” meeting today at the Hebrew Girls’
Technical School

1919: Clarence
Darrow is scheduled to speak tonight on “The Fallacy of the League of Nations”
at the Open Forum hosted by the Sinai Social Center in Chicago.

1919: It was
reported today that “The Institutional Synagogue has acquired a large factory
building…near its present home” which will be converted into “an edifice
suitable for its own uses.

1919: Mrs.
Felix A. Levy, the President of the Council of Jewish Women is scheduled to
speak at today’s luncheon at the B.M.Z. Woman’s Club where new members will
also be welcome.

1919:
In Cincinnati, Ohio, Rabbi Mendel Silber of New Orleans delivered the opening
prayer on the final day of the 30^th convention of the Central
Conference of American Rabbis which included a presentation on “Religious
Education and the Future of American Judaism” by Rabbi David Lefkowitz of
Dayton, Ohio

1920(19^th
of Nisan, 5680): Fifth Day of Pesach.

1920: The Arab
Riots in Jerusalem which had begun on the second day of Pesach came to an end
today.

1921: After
the New York State voted unanimously yesterday to extend “the freedom of the
entire State of New York to Professors Albert Einstein and Chaim Weizman, the
New York State Assembly is scheduled to follow suit today.

1921:
Twenty-six-year-old Cornell University graduate and WW I veteran of the
Intelligence Branch of the U.S. Army H. Chonon Berkowitz, the Lithuanian born
son of Devosya Rivin and Selig Berkowitz who taught at his alma mater before
becoming an Assistant Professor of Romance Languages at the University of
Wisconsin married May Landau today in Rochester, NY

1922: In
Washington, D.C., “the State Department has learned with great satisfaction
that the Standard Oil Company has received a grant for exploring the Palestine
oil fields.”

1923(21^st
of Nisan, 5683): Seventh Day of Pesach

1923:  The 1st brain tumor
operation under local anesthetic was performed at Beth Israel Hospital in New
York City by Dr. K Winfield Ney.

1924: “The United States Government will take up the question of
a creating a treaty covering the rights of the United States and American
citizens in the British Mandate of Palestine

1925: The Earl of Balfour spent the last night of his tour
through Palestine which has included visits to the Jewish colonies at Galilee
and Kiryat Schemeil, the new suburb of Tiberias, built two years ago and named
after Sir Herbert Samuels, at the hotel on top of Mount Carmel from which he
had a superb view of Haifa.

1926: “Miss Irma May, a former New York relief work” who
returned to New York today aboard the French liner Paris after having spent
three months in Europe said  that “more
than one million Jews in Poland and millions in other countries are starving as
a result of the economic breakdown of the countries in which they live” and
that “their only hope of being saved from extinction is in the early arrival of
relief from America.”

1927: “The libel suit for $100,000 brought by Dr. A. Coralnick,
editorial writer of “The Day” against the “Freiheit”, Communist Yiddish daily,
was settled out of court today. Under the terms of the settlement, the
“Freiheit” is to pay the amount of $250 to Dr. Coralnick and to publish a
statement withdrawing its charges against him. Jonah J. Goldstein and Leon
Savage acted as attorneys for Dr. Coralnick. The $250 will be given to the Ort,
Mr. Goldstein announced. (As reported by JTA)

1928(17^th of Nisan, 5688): Shabbat Shel Pesach

1928: After 494 performances the curtain came down on “Rio Rita”
a musical orchestrated and conducted by Max Steiner which had played at the
Ziegfeld, Lyric and Majestic theatres.

1928:
In the Bronx, Polish Jewish parents, Jeanette (née Goldstein)
and Paul Pakula gave birth to Yale educated director, writer and producer Alan J.
Paluka, who was nominated for an Oscar for his work on the cinema classic “To
Kill A Mockingbird.”

1929:
The New York Times reports that
Warner Brother’s recently released Biblical epic, “Noah’s Ark” was panned by
critics in London while proving to be a box-office smash success with English
audiences.  The criticism seemed to be
more an expression of anti-Americanism than related to the quality of the film
itself.

1929:
“Palestine Health Making Big Gain” published today, described the work of
Hadassah which is “starting it seventeenth year as a giver and teacher of
health in Palestine.”

1929: During
his welcoming address to the 300 delegates to the convention of the National
Federation of Temple Brotherhoods in Washington, DC. Dr. Leon Freizfelder
called for the “establishment of a national temple in Washington that “should
house the federation’s parent body, the Union of American Hebrew Congregations,
the National Federal of Temple Brotherhoods and the National Federation of
Sisterhoods.”

1930:
Birthdate of Berlin native Andreas Siegfried Sachs the son of a Roman Catholic
mother and Jewish father who gained fame as British actor Andrew Sachs. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/01/arts/television/andrew-sachs-hapless-waiter-on-the-bbc-sitcom-fawlty-towers-dies-at-86.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

1930: It was
reported today that Palestine Mandatory Authority is preparing a plan for
dividing Palestine into cantons, like Switzerland which it will then submit to
the government in London. “The first experiment with such cantons will be the
establishment of special Jewish district comprising Tel Aviv…with 47,000
inhabitants” and 40 nearby settlements including Petach Tikvah, Rishon Lexion
and Rehoboth that would form a contiguous entity with 70,000 Jewish
inhabitants.  The aim is to ultimate
create 15 or 16 such cantons, seven of which be Moslem, three would be Christian
and five or six which would be Jewish.

1931(20^th
of Nisan, 5691): Sixth Day of Pesach

1931: In Chicago, Harry and Adele (Charsky) Ellsberg, Ashkenazi Jews who
had converted to Christian Science gave birth to Daniel Ellsberg who became
American history’s most famous whistleblower with the release of The Pentagon Papers.

1932:
Attorneys for the respondent told Supreme Court Justice Alfred Frankenthaler
that Samuel Bomzon “had no legal right to sue” since he was not the trustee to
the bondholders. (Editor’s note – both judge and plaintiff were Jewish which
apparently unimportant to all of the parties involved.)

1932: The first radio station in Palestine was
opened today in Tel Aviv under a license from the British Mandatory Government.
Mendel Abranovitch operated Radio Tel Aviv.

1933: After premiering in NYC and Los Angeles, “King
Kong” with music by Max Steiner was released throughout the United States.

1933(11^th of Nisan, 5693):
Fifty-three-year-old Ukrainian born Jewish intellectual Nochum Shtif who wrote
under the pen-name “Baal Dimion” passed away in Kiev.

http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Shtif_Nokhem

1933: French premiere of “Zero for Conduct” a
featurette filmed by cinematographer Boris Kaufman.

1933:  Hitler
approved decrees banning Jews and other non-Aryans from the practice of law and
from jobs in the civil service (Law for the Restoration of the Professional
Civil Service). Jewish government workers in Germany are ordered to retire. The
term Nichtarier (“non-Aryan”) became a legal classification in
Germany. This made it “legal” to discharge Jews from their position
in the universities, hospitals, and legal professions.  The law was called
the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service.  The
non-Aryan clause would be extended over the next year to include everything
i.e. all professional occupations, athletic competition and military service.

1934(22^nd of Nisan, 5694): Shabbat and
Eighth Day of Pesach

1934(22^nd of Nisan, 5694): Sixty-nine-year-old
Charlotte Béatrice de Rothschild, the daughter of banker Alphonse James de
Rothschild and the wife of Russian-born banker Maurice Ephrussi, best known for
her art collecting passed away today in Davos, Switzerland.

http://www.villa-ephrussi.com/en/home

https://www.rothschildarchive.org/materials/review_2008_2009_beatrice_ephrussi_1.pdf

1934: Several thousand Americans attended a pro-Nazi rally in Queens, New York

1934:
“The House of Rothschild” a biopic about the famous banking family produced by
William Goetz with music with Alfred Newman was released today in the United
States.

1935:
As the 2^nd Maccabiah games came to a close before 50,000 spectators
the team from the United States had scored 254 giving it a wide lead over
second place German (183).  The team
representing the Jews of Palestine scored 139.5 points edging out Austria,
Czechoslovakia and South Africa.

1935:
“The importance of the work done by private philanthropic agencies was
stressed” today “at an all-day conference of representatives of more than 500
Jewish fraternal and benevolent societies at the Hotel McAlpin” which had been
organized under the auspices of Paul Felix Warburg.

1936(15^th
of Nisan, 5696): First Day of Pesach

1936:
“Special prayers were for offered for German Jewry and an appeal for the fund
to aid Jewish emigration from Germany was made in every synagogue in Britain
today.”

1936:
“In a special address from the pulpit of the new West End Synagogue in
Bayswater, Sir Herbert Samuel declared, ‘there is no alternative for the Jews
of Germany but to leave the country’” and “he called on the Jewish communities
of the world to cope with the emergency and rescue the ‘victims of cruel and
relentless persecution.’”

1936(15^th
of Nisan, 5696): Pesach

1936:
“At Congregation B’nai Jershurun Rabbi Israel Goldstein, president of the
Jewish National Fund, “declared the exodus had been ‘a recurrent episode in the
life of Israel.’”

1936:
At Congregation Rodeph Shalom, in his sermon Rabbi Louis I Newman discussed
“the need for great moral as well as political and economic personalities in a
time of a time of stress” saying “the world today needs the ministration of men
like Moses…”

1936:
Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein, the honorary president of the Union of Orthodox
Congregations said today “that the treatment of the Jew ‘was the barometer of
civilization.’”

1936:
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph L Buttenweiser opened their home to the public where they
viewed a collection of the “important works of the Dutch masters of the
seventeenth century” as part of the fundraising activities of the women’s
division of the United Palestine Appeal.” Although the admission fee was only
one dollar, an anonymous female visitor insisted on leaving a check for one
thousand dollars.

1937: The Palestine Post reported from London
that according to British political circles, the Royal (Peel) Commission on
Palestine might propose the setting up of two separate Jewish and Arab states,
leaving Jerusalem, Bethlehem and other holy places under British Mandate. Haifa
was to be a common seaport for all.

1937: The Palestine Post reported that Jewish
students were attacked and beaten at the Warsaw Polytechnic Institute, which
closed for a number of days.

1937: The Palestine Post reported that the
Polish airline, Lot, initiated a regular three-flights-a-week schedule from
Warsaw to Lod Airport.

1937: The Palestine Post reported that Jewish
laborers complained that they were excluded from various development projects
carried out by the government at Lod Airport.

1937: It was
reported today that “the name of Heinrich Heine, the German poet, has been
banished from Viennese municipal buildings by order of the Burgomaster Richard
Schmitz” in response to “agitation against Heine in anti-Semitic circles.”

1938: “Mr.
Moto’s Gamble, the third film in the Mr. Moto series starring Peter Lorre as
the title character” was released in the United States today.

1938: A value
of $1,500,884 was set on the estate of Louis Blaustein, a leader in the oil
industry, in inventories filed today in the Orphans Court

1938: In
Budapest, “under pressure of the steadily growing fascist movement, the Cabinet
has decided to introduce a bill regulating the employment of Jews” which “will
establish a ratio – believed to be eighty to twenty – between non-Jews and Jews
in all occupations.

1939:
“Broadway Serenade” a musical featuring Al Shean was released today in the
United States.

1939: Italy
invaded and annexed Albania. Jews were exiled from the coastal port cities and
moved to Albania’s interior. Several Austrian and German families took refuge
in Tirana and Durazzo in 1939 in hope of making it eventually to the United
States or South America. Many Jewish refugees also passed through Albania on
their way to Palestine. These refugees were well treated by the Italian forces
and by the local population. Jewish refugee families began to scatter
throughout Albania and assimilate into society. Jewish children continued to
attend school, but under false names and religions. Italians rejected the Final
Solution and therefore did not implement anti-Jewish laws. Nevertheless, many
Albanians joined the SS Division “Skanderbeg.” Some Jewish refugees were
eventually placed in a transit camp in Kavaje, and from there sent to Italy. At
one point, nearly 200 Jews were placed in the Kavaje camp. Some Albanian
officials tried to rescue these Jews of Kavaje, by issuing identity papers to
hide them in the capital Tirana.

                                                                         
or

1939: In a prelude to World War II,
Mousillini invades
Albania as he tries to create a modern day Roman Empire. “Approximately,
600 Jews were living in Albania prior to World War II, 400 of whom were
refugees. At the beginning of World War II, hundreds of Jews arrived in Albania
seeking refuge from Nazi persecution in other regions of Europe. There was little history of anti-Semitism in Albania
between the local Christians, Muslims, and Jews. Most of the Albanian
population was not hostile toward the Jews and helped to hide them during the
war, especially when Italy and Germany occupied the country. When Italy invaded
and annexed Albania. Jews were exiled from the coastal port cities and moved to
Albania’s interior. Several Austrian and German families took refuge in Tirana
and Durazzo in 1939 in hope of making it eventually to the United States or
South America. Many Jewish refugees also passed through Albania on their way to
Palestine. These refugees were well treated by the Italian forces and by the
local population. Jewish refugee families began to scatter throughout Albania
and assimilate into society. Jewish children continued to attend school, but
under false names and religions. Italians rejected the Final Solution and
therefore did not implement anti-Jewish laws. Nevertheless, many Albanians joined the SS Division “Skanderbeg” and
committed atrocities against the Serbian and Jewish populations of Kosovar.
Some refugees were eventually placed in a transit camp in Kavaje, and from
there sent to Italy. At one point, nearly 200 Jews were placed in the Kavaje
camp. Some Albanian officials tried to rescue these Jews of Kavaje, by issuing
identity papers to hide them in the capital Tirana.”  For more see http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/albania.html
\

1940: Today, officials at the Finnish Consulate in
Manhattan announced that “in response to an appeal from Finland’s 2,000 Jews
for Matzos for the upcoming Passover holidays arrangements have been completed
to ship 5,000 pounds of the unleavened bread to the stricken Jewish population.”

1940(28^th of Adar II, 5700): Cyrus Adler,
the national Jewish leader from, of all places, Van Buren, Arkansas, passed
away today.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0001_0_00426.html

http://www.brandeis.edu/hornstein/sarna/jewishleadership/Archive/CyrusAdlerandtheDevelopmentofAmericanJewishCultureScholar-Doer.pdf

http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=5803

 

1940(28^th of Adar II, 5700): Fifty-one-year-old
“A Sigmund Kanengieser, the former national grand master of the Independent
Order of B’rith Shalom” and the secretary of the Grant and Richmond Building
and Loan Associations of Newark, NJ, passed away today in a hospital in
Baltimore, MD after having suffered a “cerebral hemorrhage.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1940/04/08/92936032.pdf

1941: Two separate ghettos were established in
Radom, Poland. At Kielce, Poland, 16,000 local Jews and about a thousand Jewish
deportees from Vienna are herded into a ghetto area.

1942(20^th
of Nisan, 5702): Sixth Day of Pesach

1942:
According to dispatches received today in Berne from Berlin, “Jewish tenants
must display the Star of David on the doors of their dwellings beginning April
15.”

1943:
The Spanish Ambassador has lunch with Winston Churchill at which time the Prime
Minister protested in the strongest possible language to the closure of the
border between France and Spain to Jewish refugees trying to escape across the
Pyrenees. Churchill’s threatening tone had its effect when a “few days later
the Spanish authorities had re-opened the border to Jewish refugees.”

1943: Jewish resistance led by Michael Glanz
took place at Skalat, Ukraine.

1943(2nd
of Nisan, 5703): During the Holocaust in the western Ukraine, the Germans order
1,100 Jews to undress to their underwear and march through the city of
Terebovlia to the nearby village of Plebanivka. They
were then shot dead and buried in ditches.

1944:
Birthdate of Julia Miller who gained fame as Julia Philips co-producer of “The
Sting,” “Taxi Driver” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.”1944:  Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler escaped from
Auschwitz with the expressed the intention of telling the world what was
going on. With the help of the resistance movement inside the camp, these
two made it out and after two weeks found their way to Slovakia. They met with
Adre Steiner and Oscar Krasnansky and described in detail what was happening
including plans to murder 800,000 Hungarian Jews. Krasnansky turned their
report into the thirty-page long “Auschwitz Protocols” which were
then sent to contacts in the West. To say the Holocaust happened because
nobody knew was not quite the case; more like people did not want to know or
knew but did not care. 1944: Funeral services are scheduled to be held today in
the Playhouse of the Henry Street Settlement for Irene Lewisohnn founder and
co-director of the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre.1944(14th of
Nisan, 5704): In the evening, with the world at war, Jews sit down for the
first Seder of the year including American service men and woman.  The different branches of the United States
armed forces have made great effort to make it possible for Jews serving in the
military to observe the holiday.  “With
the cooperation of the Army and Navy, 400,000 boxes Matzah, 7,000 gallons of
wine and 190,000 Haggadot have been shipped by the Jewish Welfare Board for
distribution” to those serving “in every war sector as well as England, North
Africa and Australia.” Holiday supplies have already been parachuted to troops
serving in the upper reaches of the Rockies and dogsleds were used to get
Passover goodies to those serving in outposts in Alaska.  The South African Army provided a special
train so Jewish soldiers in Egypt could enjoy home hospitality in Tel Aviv and
Jerusalem. http://resources.ushmm.org/film/display/detail.php?file_num=4681

1945(24^th
of Nisan, 5705) Parashat Shmini

1945: In
Italy, the Jewish Brigade received an order to cross the Senio River “and
establish a bridgehead on the other side – a move that would force the Germans
to retreat in the wake of the advancing British Army.

http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/april/11.asp

1945:
Birthdate of Robert S. Wistrich, the son of Polish Jews who had fled from Lviv
to the Soviet Union to escape the Nazis, “who devoted his four-decade scholarly
career to dissecting anti-Semitism, from the biblical Haman, who warned King
Ahasuerus of Persia against strangers whose “laws are diverse from all people,”
to modern Islamist extremists who deny Israel’s right to exist.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/28/world/europe/robert-s-wistrich-scholar-of-anti-semitism-dies-at-70.html?login=email&_r=1

 

1945:
“Brewster’s Millions” the movie version of the novel produced by Edward Small
released today in the United States.

1946: “An
authoritative Jewish source in Geneva charged tonight that British authorities
had used diplomatic pressure to seal the borders of eastern European countries
against escaping Jews to halt illegal immigration to Palestine.”

1946: Syria’s
independence from France is officially recognized. The Syrian Jewish community
which traced its origins back to the reign of King David and had once been
thriving and prosperous had, by now, fallen on hard times. As anti-Jewish
sentiment increased in the 20^th century, many Syrian Jews moved to
New York.  In the years just prior to
Syrian independence, thousands of Syrian Jews found refuge in Palestine. A year
after Syria gained independence, the ancient Jewish community of Aleppo was the
victim of a Pogrom. [Reading the works of Haim Sabato, a Syrian Jew whose
family moved to Egypt before settling in Israel, will give you some sense of
this ancient Jewish Community.]

1947: In
Jerusalem, following the High Court’s rejection today of an appeal filed by
Israel Rokach on behalf of Dov Bela Gruner, it was “understood” that the Mayor
of Tel Aviv would file an appeal with the Privy Council in London.

1947: In
Mineola, NY, “Beatrice (Sobel) Burstein, was one of the first women to serve as
a justice of the New York State Supreme Court” and Herbert Burstein, an
international lawyer gave birth to Jessica May Burstein, “a photographer who in
extended assignments captured three quintessentially New York institutions —
the “Law & Order” television franchise, the new Yankee Stadium as it was
being built and the restaurant and celebrity hangout Elaine’s —” (As reported
by Richard Sandomir)

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/20/arts/jessica-burstein-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries

1948: In
Paris, Herbert Katzki, the acting director of the emigration service of the
American Joint Distribution Committee reported “that 45,000 Jewish had been
helped since 1946” and that 80,000 Jews, not counting those in the DP camps,
“were waiting to go to Palestine.

1948: It was
reported today that a cable has been received in New York from Dr. Jonah B.
Wise, national chairman of the UJA supporting Dr. Israel Goldstein’s call for
economic assistance from the American Jewish community for the Yishuv as it
fights for its life against Arab enemies.

1949: Rogers
& Hammerstein’s “South Pacific” opened at Majestic Theater for
the first of 1,928 performances.

1949(9^th
of Nisan, 5709): Sixty-eight year old “Polish-born German composer and
conductor Ignatz Waghalter the brother of cellist Henryk Waghalter and the
husband of Mrs. Toni Waghalter with whom he had two daughters who was so
popular that he could WW I performing in Germany but was forced to flee to the
United States when the Nazis came to power passed away in the United States
where he had tried “to establish a classical orchestra made up of
African-American musicians.”

http://www.waghalter.com/

https://www.naxos.com/person/Ignatz_Waghalter/177380.htm

 

1950: In one
of the ironies of history, a commercial vessel now called the Tsfonit which
flew the Swastki when first launched in 1937 will fly Israel’s Blue and White
flag complete with the Star of David. 
The ship has been purchased by the American-Israeli Shipping Company for
Zim, Israel’s shipping line, according to reports published in the New York
Times.  As part of Israel’s growing
commitment to maritime commerce, a freighter now named the Akko will leave for
Haifa next week to join three other war surplus shipping vessels that are
already plying the waters between Israeli and U.S. ports.

1952: The Jerusalem Post reported from The
Hague that at the reparations talks held there, Israel was waiting for a
definite commitment and a specific sum to be offered as compensation, by the
authoritative German delegation.

1952: The Jerusalem Post reported that the UN
Technical Assistance Department proposed to set up in Israel a center for
modern adobe (sun-dried earth) housing development scheme.

1952: The Jerusalem Post reported that The
Jerusalem Municipal Council voted for a new entertainment tax and fixed
salaries of town councilors and deputy mayors.

1952: When
Mrs. Liili Darvas Molnar applied for letters of administration today in
Surrogate Court, it was learned that Hungarian playwright and author had died
without a will.

1954:
“The Anniversary Waltz,” directed by Moss Hart opened on Broadway at the
Broadhurst Theatre.

1954: Otto Hofmann who participated in the
Wannsee Conference was released from prison today meaning he did not serve his
twenty-five-year prison sentence.

1955(15^th
of Nisan, 5715): Pesach

1955(15^th
of Nisan, 5715): Sixty-nine-year-old silent film star Theda Bara passed away
today.

http://www.goldensilents.com/stars/thedabara.html

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1955/04/08/93801192.html?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0&pageNumber=21

1956(26th of
Nisan, 5716): A resident of Ashkelon was killed in her home, when attackers
threw three hand grenades into her house. Two members of kibbutz Givat Haim
were killed, when terrorists opened fire on their car, on the road from Plugot
Junction to Mishmar HaNegev

1956(26^th
of Nisan, 5716): One person was killed, and three others were wounded when
terrorists attacked areas around Nitzanim and Ketziot tossing hand grenades and
firing guns into homes and cars.

1956(26^th
of Nisan, 5716): Two members of kibbutz Givat Haim were killed, when terrorists
opened fire on their car, on the road from Plugot Junction to Mishmar HaNegev.

1958: Writer
Arch Oboler’s six-year-old son, Peter, drowned in rainwater collected in
excavations at Oboler’s Malibu home. The house was designed by architect Frank
Lloyd Wright; the Wright-designed Oboler residential complex is named
Eaglefeather. The house is featured in Oboler’s film “Five.”

1960: “Everybody’s
Somebody’s Fool” is a song written by Jack Keller and Howard Greenfield”
was released today.

1961(21^st
of Nisan, 5721): Seventh Day of Pesach

1961: In
Mexico City, soap opera star Abraham Stavchansky and his wife gave birth to
Ilan Stavchansky who gained famed as Ilan Stavans, “Mexican-American, essayist,
lexicographer, cultural commentator, translator, short-story author, publisher,
TV personality, and teacher known for his insights into American, Hispanic, and
Jewish cultures.”

1962(3^rd
of Nisan, 5722): Parashat Tazria

1962(3^rd
of Nisan, 5722): Eighty-five year old builder G. Richard Davis, the New York
born “son of Michael M. and Miriam Peixotto Davis, the descendant of a family
that has lived in New York since the 18^th century whose edifices
included the Montana (site of John Lennon’s murder) and the General Motors
Building and the husband of the former Irma L. Bernstein whom he married after
“first wife, the former Benveneda Bricker” died passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/04/08/113422396.pdf

1963: The
New York Times published a review of The Femine Mystique by Betty
Friedan

1965: Robert
Louis Rogers began serving as Canada’s Ambassador to Israel.

1965: “Bus
Riley’s Back in Town” produced by Elliot Kastner and co-starring Janet Margolin
and Larry Storch was released in the United States today.

1966(17^th
of Nisan, 5726): Third Day of Pesach

1966:
Birthdate of Beersheba native Zvika Hadar who gained fame as a television game
show host.

1967: Israeli fighters shot down seven
Syrian MIG-21s.  This episode turned out
to be one of the many flashpoints on the road to the war that would be fought
in June of 1967.  The Syrians were embarrassed and infuriated by the ease with which
the Israelis swept their advanced MIG’s from the sky.  So they took action to encourage Nasser to
follow an aggressive policy towards Israel that would ultimately lead to a clash
of arms from which the region still has not recovered at the start of the 21^st
century.

1969(19^th of Nisan, 5729):
Fifth Day of Pesach coincided with the “Birth of That Thing We Call the
Internet.”

https://www.wired.com/2007/04/dayintech-0407-2/

1970(1^st of Nisan, 5730):
Rosh Chodesh Nisan

1970: Birthdate of Rabbi Aaron Sherman.

1970: Funeral services were held today
at Park West for popular Yiddish performer Max Boyzk who

https://www.nytimes.com/1970/04/08/archives/max-bozyk-dead-yiddish-actor-71-performer-collapses-after-town-hall.html

1972: Today Sammy Shore co-founded the
Comedy Store in Hollywood which became his ex-wife’s Mizi when they were
divorced.

1974(15^th of Nisan, 5734):
First Day of Pesach

1974: Today, drummer Max Weinberg met
Bruce Springsteen at a time when Springsteen was looking for a drummer to
replace the soon to leave Ernest “Boom” Carter. (Weinberg is the only Jew in
this item)

1974: “The Conversation” with music by
David Shire and featuring Allen Garfield as William P. “Bernie” Moran
was released in the United States today.

1974: “Cinderella Liberty” produced and
direct by Mark Rydell and co-starring James Caan and Eli Wallach and featuring
Allan Arbus was released in Sweden today.

1975:
Forty-five-year-old Beverly Sills debuted at the Metropolitan Opera

https://jwa.org/thisweek/apr/07/1975/beverly-sills

 

1975(26^th
of Nisan, 5735): Seventy-five year old Columbia trained surgeon Maxwell “Max”
Maltz, the Manhattan born son of Jewish immigrants “Josef Matlz and Taube
Elzweig,” the author of Pyscho-Cybernetics and the husband of Anne Maltz passed
away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1975/04/08/archives/dr-maxwell-maltz-dead-plastic-surgeon-and-author.html

1975:
Birthdate of Ilias Miroslva, “the Slovakian professor who walked bare into Gaza
to ‘save’ 3 kids he never met.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/courageous-foolhardy-naked-the-slovakian-professor-who-stripped-off-and-walked-into-gaza-to-save-3-kids-hed-never-met/

1976: U.S.
Premiere of “Sparkle” produced by Howard Rosenman who co-authored the script
with Joel Schumacher.

1976: U.S.
premiere of “The Bad News Bears” co-starring Walter Matthau and Vic Morrow with
music by Jerry Fielding.

1977: The Jerusalem Post reported that in
Washington Egyptian President Anwar Sadat announced that a
“normalization” of relations with Israel would be possible only after
the signing of a peace agreement at the reconvened Geneva Peace Conference and
the establishment of a Palestinian state. A Soviet diplomat called unexpectedly
at the Israeli Embassy in Washington to deliver a note from his leader, Leonid
Brezhnev.

1977: The Jerusalem Post reported that Taiwan
was reported to have purchased Israeli missiles.

1977: The Jerusalem Post reported that Senior
Israeli pilots expressed criticism of the current safety measures at Ben-Gurion
Airport and warned that unless these were taken care of, an eventual disaster
was inevitable.

1978: The
annual meeting of the International Catholic-Jewish Liaison Committee where the
attendees have been discussing “How the Traditions Educate About Each Other”
came to a close today in Madrid.

1979(10^th
of Nisan, 5739): Parashat Tzav; Shabbat HaGadol

1979(10^th
of Nisan, 5739): Eighty-nine-year-old Isidore Rabinowitz, the Ukrainian born
son of “Chairm Aaron Rabinowitz and Sura Mena Rabinowitz,” the husband of
Miriam Rabinowitz and the father of Harry, Esther, Pauline and Hyman Rabin
passed away today in Chicago after which he was buried at Forest Park.

1980(21^st
of Nisan, 5740): Seventh Day of Pesach observed for the last time during the
Presidency of Jimmy Carter.

1981(3^rd
of Nisan, 5741): Sixty-three-year-old CCNY and Columbia University educated
sociologist Morroe Berger, the New York born son of Morris and Frieda Berger
who was a professor of sociology at Princeton and amateur jazz scholar and who
raised three son, Edward, Kenneth and Laurence, with his wife “the former Paula
Wainer” passed away today.

https://www.amazon.com/Books-Morroe-Berger/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AMorroe+Berger

https://www.nytimes.com/1981/04/08/obituaries/dr-morroe-berger-63-a-sociology-professor-and-near-east-expert.html

1981: Eighty-two-year-old
Oscar Award winning director Norman Taurog whose forty-year carrier went from
the Roaring Twenties to the Elvis Presley version of the 1960’s passed away
today.

http://www.nytimes.com/1981/04/10/obituaries/norman-taurog-director-dies-winner-of-an-oscar-for-skippy.html

1984(5^th
of Nisan, 5774): Parashat Metzora

1984(5^th
of Nisan, 5744): Seventy-year-old WW II Veteran, screenwriter and producer
Samuel G. Engel, the President of the Screen Producers Guild and President of
the Brandeis Institute of California passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1984/04/12/obituaries/samuel-g-engel-dead-at-70-led-screen-producers-guild.html

1985(16^th
of Nisan, 5745): Second Day of Pesach observed on the same day that the final
round of the Nabisco Dinah Shore (Frances Rose Shore) Open golf tournament is
played.

1986:
Nobel Prize winning author Elias Canetti wrote a profile of Israeli poet
Avraham Ben-Yitzhak born Avraham Sonne for today’s edition of The New Yorker.

1990: Michael Milken pleaded innocent to
security law violations.

1991:
ITV broadcast the first episode of “Prime Suspect,” featuring Owen
Aaronovitch  the son of economist Sam
Aaronovitch in the role of “Tony.:

1991:
Jerome “Jay” Apt took part in an EVA as part of STS-37, the eighth flight of
the NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis,

1992(4^th
of Nisan, 5752): Eighty-year-old Chess Grandmaster Samuel Reshevsky passed away
today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/07/nyregion/samuel-reshevsky-is-dead-chess-grandmaster-was-80.html

1993(16^th
of Nisan, 5753): Second Day of Pesach

1993:
In Planation, FL, Nadia Berger and former tennis pro Jay Beger, “the head of
men’s Tennis Association gave birth to Daniel Berger, the former FSU collegiate
golfer who made the jump to the PGA.

1994(26th
of Nisan, 5754): Yishai
Gadassi, age 32, of Kvutzat Yavne, was shot and killed at a hitchhiking post at
the Ashdod junction by a member of HAMAS. The terrorist was killed by
bystanders at the scene. 1994(26th of Nisan, 5754):
Based
on information it attributed to Israel Radio, The Associated Press in
Jerusalem, reported that Palestinian shot and wounded at least two Israelis at
a bus stop in the southern Israel port of Ashod early today before he was shot
dead by a bystander.

1994(26th
of Nisan, 5754): Author Golo Mann, son of Thomas Mann and Katia Mann who was Jewish
passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/09/obituaries/golo-mann-85-historian-dies-was-2d-son-of-thomas-mann.html

1994: ElioToaff
who had been served as Chief Rabbi of Rome since 1951 co-officiated at the
Papal Concert to Commemorate the Shoah at the Sala Nervi in Vatican City, along
with Pope John Paul II, and the President of Italy Oscar Luigi Scalfaro.

1994:  For the first time the Vatican acknowledged
Holocaust i.e. the Nazi’s killing of Jews.

1998: Under the leadership of Sandy
Weill, Citicorp and Travelers Group announce plans to merge creating the
largest financial-services conglomerate in the world, Citigroup.

2000: Today, “the police closed a three
month investigation of “ seventy-five year old President Ezer Weizman  “with the recommendation that he not be
prosecuted for accepting substantial payments from a French investors.”

2001(14^th of Nisan, 5761):
Parashat Tzav; Shabbat Hagadol; in the evening first Seder during the
Presidency of George Bush.

2002: During Operation Defensive
Shield, the Vatican “warned Israel to respect religious sites in line with its
international obligations ignoring the fact that the Church of Nativity was at
risk only because Palestinian terrorist had seized control of the venerable
shrine.

2002: The New York Times featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including ”Gershom
Scholem: A Life in Letters.”

2002: In a
column entitled “A Jewish Avenger, A Timely Legend,” Alisa Solomon reviews the
upcoming revival English language production of H. Leivick’s Yiddish classic,
”The Golem,”

2002: MEMRI (The Middle East Media Research Institute) Special Dispatch 363 quotes
Al-Azhar Mosque’s Sheikh Muhammad Sayed Tantawi as announcing “every martyrdom
operation against any Israeli, including children, women, and teenagers are
legitimate acts according to religious law, and Islamic commandment until the
people of Palestine regain their land and cause the cruel Israeli aggression to
retreat.”

2003: “Les Moonves” CBS executive and “a great-nephew of Paula
Ben-Gurion” “portrayed himself in an episode of ‘The Practice.’”

2004(16^th of Nisan, 5764): Second Day of Pesach

2004: Rabbi Michel Chill is overseeing the observance of Pesach at Green
Haven, the prison with the kosher kitchen whose congregation of inmates
included 53-year-old Yakov Enshimon who is serving “25 years to life for
murder.”

2005: The Prince of
Wales attended a memorial service for the Hon Dame Miriam Louisa Rothschild
held today at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue in London. Rabbi Alexandra Wright,
officiated, assisted by Rabbi Baroness Julia Neuberger. Rabbi Mark Solomon sang
and Ms Andrea Hess, cello, played during the service. Attendees included Sir
Evelyn de Rothschild, the Hon Emma Rothschild, Professor Sir John Gurdon and
Lord Lester of Herne Hill, QC.

2006: David Bromberg appears at the
Library of Congress to speak on the historic significance of that
ever-under-appreciated musical instrument, the American-made violin. The sixty
year-old musical legend owns nearly 250, some dating back more than 100 years.
It is the largest such collection, and they are displayed in cabinets from one
end of his living room to the other.

2006(9^th
of Nisan, 5766): Ninety-two-year-old Helen Cohen, known as “Bobbie Nudie” after
she married Nudie Cohn with whom she created the most famous business for Rodeo
and western wear passed away today

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/12/style/bobbie-nudie-purveyor-of-glitter-to-rhinestone-cowboys-dies-at-92.html

http://www.nudiesrodeotailor.com/

2007: The
UJA-Federation of New York’s Music for Youth initiative holds a fund raising
concert at New York’s Carnegie Hall.

2007: “Be” an
“Israeli show that blends music, dance and sex appeal” was performed “Off
Broadway” at the Union Square Theatre.

2007: The three-day
festival known as Boombamela
comes to an end. The
festival is described by its organizers
as “a place for meeting, experiencing, crossing borders and transcending
social limitations through music, creation, and connection with nature.”
It is held on the sandy beach of Hof Nitzanim, between Ashdod and Ashkelon.

2008(2nd of Nisan, 5768): Eighty-three-year-old
“atomic spy” Ruth Greenglass, the wife of David Greenglass, died today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/09/us/09greenglass.html

2008: RSA Conference opens in San
Francisco.  RSA was developed by Ronald
Rivest (R), Adi Shamir (S) and Leonard Adelman (A) in 1977.

2008: Following the latest
attack targeting Yemen’s few remaining Jews during which rebel Houthi militiamen
destroyed several homes that had belonged to the now-absent Jewish community in
the northwestern Saada province The Jerusalem
Post reported
on the conditions of Jews living in Yemen.

“The
Houthis destroyed part of my house and looted it,” Rabbi Yehia Youssuf
told Reuters in the capital, San’a. All 67 members of Saada’s Jewish community
fled following threats from the Houthis, the rabbi says. Some locals say the
Jews were threatened because they had been selling wine to Muslims – an
accusation the Jews deny, according to Reuters. A local said the Shi’ite rebels
attacked the houses of other Jews after looting the rabbi’s. Around 400 Jews
remain in the majority Sunni state, the remnant of an ancient, close-knit
community that, while remaining connected to Jewish intellectual and legal
developments outside Yemen, managed to insulate itself culturally until the
20th century. According to Dr. Dov Levitan, a scholar of Yemenite Jewry at
Bar-Ilan University and the Academic College of Ashkelon, the Houthi clan
targets Jews to embarrass the government internationally. Apparently unrelated
intertribal fighting in the province killed at least 15 people in recent days
as the Houthi tribe continued its intermittent violence, begun in June 2004,
against the central government and its allies. Since the early 1990s, the
Yemeni government “has been very conscious of its international
image,” explains Levitan. “So important is the country’s image to its
government that the Jews have excellent government protection.” When their
situation in Saada became precarious about a year ago, “they were flown
out in a government plane to San’a. They receive a small stipend and live in a
compound protected by state security forces. This kind of concern would have
been unimaginable just 15 years ago,” he says. The government’s concern
for its image, together with pressure from American Jewish groups and US
legislators, led Yemen in the early 1990s to permit most of the remaining 2,000
Jews to emigrate to Israel and elsewhere, continuing a centuries-long trickle
of aliya from the country. At the founding of the Jewish state in 1948, around
35,000 Yemenite Jews lived in Israel. Another 50,000 came in the immediate aftermath
of the War of Independence. Most of the 1,600 Jews who left Yemen during the
1990s now live in Rehovot. The question of why Jews remain in Yemen remains.
“We have contact with these Jews. They’re not the Jews who came 60 years
ago,” the large wave of poor refugees who fled pogroms in Operation Magic
Carpet, Levitan says. “They’re more educated, they’re better dressed, they
wear watches and drive cars. Some of them have traveled overseas. They have
property there, and they are connected historically. They don’t want to leave a
place that has been their natural environment for generations.” The
Yemenite Jewish community claims to have existed since the time of the First
Temple, 2,600 years ago. While this claim has not been verified, “we know
with certainty that they were there for at least 1,500 years,” says
Levitan. Despite its unique customs and liturgy, Yemenite Jewry was never
disconnected from the broader Jewish world. “For example, we know that the
letters of the [medieval Jewish philosopher and legalist] Maimonides arrived in
Yemen. We know from the 14th to the 16th centuries they were connected enough
to receive the Shulchan Aruch [halachic codex]. And in the 18th and 19th
centuries they received printed Jewish prayer books and Talmuds from abroad
when there was no Jewish press in Yemen,” he said. Other pressures also
affect the decision of Jews to remain. The anti-Zionist Satmar hassidim work to
persuade the community not to move to Israel. “They give the remaining
Jews money and holy books, take them to New York and London – anything to keep
them from going to Israel,” says Levitan. Also, the government’s concern
and protection are seen as complete and genuine by the community, he says.

2008: David Grossman’s latest novel, Isha
Borahat Mibesora (English title: “Until the end of the land”)
is released by Hasifria Hahadasha, Kibbutz Hameuchad and Siman Kriah books.

2008: The
Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 by Saul
Friedlander won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. “In his
second volume of a history of the Holocaust, Mr. Friedländer, 75, interwove
segments from contemporary journals and letters into the more general
description of the atrocities. “Usually the history of the Holocaust is written
from the viewpoint of German documents and archives,” said Mr. Friedländer, who
was born in Prague, escaped to France in 1939 and emigrated to Israel in 1948.
He teaches history at the University of California, Los Angeles.”

2009: The Zionist
Organization of America renewed its call today for a boycott of Coca-Cola
products during Pesach on behalf of an Egyptian Jewish family that is suing the
company over a property dispute.

2009: Today, two days before
Passover, a University of Haifa archaeologist has unearthed foot-shaped
structures he believes were constructed by the Israelites at the time of the
Exodus from Egypt and move into the Promised Land.  

2009:
“Picturing the Shoah,” a film festival sponsored by YIVO that explores  how movies have represented the Holocaust
from radical, provocative, and unexpected angles continues with exhibitions of
“Black Book” and “Sobibor, Oct. 14, 1943.”

2009: Israel carried
out a test launch of its Arrow II interceptor missile today, the Defense
Ministry said, a system designed to defend against possible ballistic missile
attacks by Iran and Syria

2010: Savyon Liebrecht, who was born in
Munich to Holocaust survivors and is the author of The Women My Father Knew
is scheduled to discuss growing up in a home of survivors, the psychological
and social phenomena of the “second generation,” and how these
subjects manifest themselves in her stories and play at Museum of Jewish
Heritage in New York.

 2010:
The Tel Aviv municipality unveiled the city’s new
large-scale public bomb shelter today, built under the new Habima Theater.

2011: The Miracle Worker is scheduled to have
its final performance today in Talpiot, Jerusalem, in the Way Off Theater.

2011: Yeshiva
University Museum, American Jewish Historical Society, Center for Jewish
History and Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum are scheduled to present a
panel discussion entitled: “Give us Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled
Masses….or Not: A New Model for Civic Dialogue Within and Beyond the Gallery
Walls.

2011: In Rockville,
MD, Magen David Sephardic Congregation is scheduled to present a lecture by David
W. Jourdan, President & Founder of Nauticos entitled “Never Forgotten: The
Search for Israel’s Lost Submarine Dakar.

2011: Philo
Bregstein is scheduled deliver a lecture at London’s Wiener Library in which he
re-evaluates “Ashes in the Wind: The Destruction of Dutch
Jewry” by Jacob Presser. When it was first published in 1965, the book
triggered “a fierce debate on the Holocaust in the
Netherlands.”

2011: A number of
terrorist cells are operating in the Sinai Peninsula with the goal of
kidnapping Israeli nationals, security officials warned today ahead of the
upcoming Pesach holiday

2011: Two people were wounded today after an
anti-tank missile exploded into a bus traveling in one of the communities
surrounding the Gaza Strip.  

2011: Today, the
Iron Dome missile defense system successfully intercepted for the first time a
Grad rocket that was fired at the Israeli city of Ashkelon from the Gaza Strip.

2011: “In Washington, D.C., the Woodrow
Wilson International Center for Scholars of the United States’ Smithsonian
Institution presented the Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service to Jacques
Attali, founder and president of PlaNet Finance.”

2011: 
Today, Les editions CNRS will
publish the philosopher and translator Nicolas Cavaillès’s “Cioran in Spite of
HImself: Writing Against Oneself.” It appears one day before the 100^th
anniversary of the birth of Emil Cioran

2011: The local government of the Balearic Islands in Spain will, for
the first time, officially acknowledge the suffering of a local community,
whose ancestors were Jewish, at a ceremony in Palma de Majorca today. Balearic
Island President, Francesc Antich Oliver, will attend the commemorative event
held on the 320th anniversary of the killing of 33 locals who belonged to the
Cheuta minority, and were executed by the Spanish Inquisition for secretly
practicing Judaism in 1691. The Cheuta (also spelled Xeuta), is a community of about
20,000 people living on the Mediterranean islands whose ancestors were forcibly
converted from Judaism to Christianity in the 15th century.

2012(15^th
of Nisan, 5772): First Day of Pesach

2012(15^th
of Nisan, 5772): Ninety-three year old television broadcast journalist Mike
Wallace passed away today. (Tim Weiner)

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/09/business/media/mike-wallace-cbs-pioneer-of-60-minutes-dead-at-93.html?_r=2&hp&

2012(15^th
of Nisan): According to Chabad Lubavitch, “on the 15th of Nissan of the year
2447 from creation (1314 BCE) — exactly one year before the Exodus — Moses was
shepherding the flocks of his father-in-law, Jethro, at the foot of Mount
Sinai, when G-d appeared to him in a “thornbush that burned with fire, but
was not consumed” and instructed him to return to Egypt, come before
Pharaoh, and demand in the name of G-d: “Let My people go, so that they
may serve Me.” For seven days and seven nights Moses argued with G-d,
pleading that he is the wrong person for the job, before accepting the mission
to redeem the people of Israel and bring them to Sinai.

2013(27^th
of Nisan, 5773): Seventy-three-year-old “American comedy writer and
screenwriter” and “lifelong friend of Woody Allen” Mickey Rose passed away
today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/14/arts/television/mickey-rose-tv-writer-and-woody-allen-collaborator-dies-at-77.html?hpw&_r=0

2013(27^th
of Nisan, 5773): Seventy-four-year-old “Peter Workman, the founder of Workman
Publishing, whose knack for landing best-selling trade books like “What to
Expect When You’re Expecting,” and “The Silver Palate Cookbook” built his
company into one of the few remaining independent book publishers in the
country” passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/09/business/media/peter-workman-book-publisher-with-an-eye-for-hits-dies-at-74.html?hpw&_r=0

2013:
The New York Times features reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including Fear Itself by Ira Katzneson and FDR and the Jews by
Richard Breitman and Allan J. Lichtman

2013:
The Arab-Israeli ensemble of the IPO is scheduled to perform in Los Angeles.

2013:
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is scheduled to present a screening of
“Chronicle of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising According to Marek Edelman.”

2013: Start of “National Days of Remembrance” sponsored by the
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.”

http://act.ushmm.org/page/s/DoR-Resources

2013:
Hamas terrorists, who declare openly their wish to commit genocide against the
Jewish people, marked Holocaust Remembrance Day their way today – with a salvo
of rockets fired at Jewish civilians. (As reported by Gil Ronen)

2013:
Anti-Israel hackers failed in their declared plan to wipe the Jewish state from
the internet on Yom HaShoah.

2013:
Second season of “House of Lies” co-starring Ben Schwartz came to an end.

2014:
The Tulane University Jewish Studies Department under the chairmanship of Dr.
Brian J. Horowitz is scheduled to host “Nazi Film- Melodrama” a lecture by
Visiting Professor Laura Heins author of Nazi Film Melodrama.

2014:
In Cannes, the MIPTV event that will include a “Focus On Israel” series “that
will include lectures and screenings featuring the hottest content out of the
Holy Land” is scheduled to open today.

2014:
The anti-Semitic “hacker group known as Anonymous” is scheduled to launch
OpIsrael, its second annual attack on the cyber infrastructure of Israel.

2014:
Two days after he had passed away, gravesides were held at the Lindwood
Memorial Park for Boston University trained attorney, WW II veteran and
“lifelong member of Kehillath Israel and Young Israel in Brookline Sumner A
Marcus, the son of William and Celia (Crockett) Marcus of blessed memory.

2014:
Jael Silliman author of The Man With Many Hats and a former Professor at
the University of Iowa is scheduled to deliver a talk that “will present a rich
visual tour of the Calcutta Jewish community

2014:
In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the Thaler Holocaust Memorial Fund chaired by Dr. Bob
Silber is scheduled to co-host “A Service of Remembrance for the Victims of the
Holocuast” featuring Holocaust Survivor Cesare Frustaci.

2015:
“Shall We Dance,” “the award-winning Israeli theatre show” is scheduled to be
performed at the Kraine Theatre tonight.

2015:
Mayor Rahm Emanuel was re-elected mayor of Chicago today.

2015:
In a new book, Silence No More, published today the nephew of Nelly
Voskuijl posited she was a Nazi collaborator who revealed the Amsterdam hideout
of the family of Anne Frank.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/sister-of-otto-franks-typist-may-have-betrayed-anne-frank/

2016:
“Dough” is scheduled to be shown at the opening night of the Northern Virginia
Jewish Film Festival.

2016:
“The American Sephardi Federation, The Aristides Sousa Mendes Virtual Museum,
the American Jewish Historical Society, Centro de Portugal Office of Tourism,
the Leo Baeck Institute, Luso-Americain Foundation, International Raoul
Wallenberg Foundation, Sousa Mendes Foundation, and the YIVO Institute for
Jewish History are scheduled to host the reception marking the opening of “Portugal,
The Last Hope: Sousa Mendes’ Visas for Freedom.”

2016:
The Skirball Center is scheduled to host an evening with architect Daniel
Libeskind whose designs include the Jewish Museum in Berlin, the Danish Jewish
Museum and the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco.

2016:
In Memphis, TN, Temple Israel is scheduled to host a musical evening presented
by Cantorial Soloist Abbie Strauss and Friends.

2016:
“The American Jewish Historical Society, Museum at Eldridge Street, Anne Frank
Center USA, Multifaith Alliance for Syrian Refugees” are scheduled to host a
roundtable discussion on “Yearning to Breathe Free: The Jewish Response to the
Global Refugee Crisis.”

2016:
“Presenting Princess Shaw” is scheduled to be shown at the Westchester Jewish
Film Festival today.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/13/arts/design/vladimir-kagan-designer-of-modern-furniture-with-curves-and-sex-appeal-dies-at-88.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

2016(28th
of Adar II, 5776): Eighty-eight year old furniture designer Vladimir Kagan
passed away today.

2016:
David Feldman, Director of the Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism,
is scheduled to deliver a lecture the Cecil Roth Lecture – Living with Others:
Jews and Other Minorities in England since the Seventeenth Century.

2017:  In the early hours of this day Prime Minister
Netanyahu praised the United States missile attacks on a Syrian base after the
Assad regime had launched a gas attack against its own citizens,

2017:
As Jews “eat down their chametz in preparation for Pesach” in Memphis, TN,
Temple Israel is scheduled to host a family themed Preneg followed by a Musical
Shabbat led by Abbie Strauss.

2018:
The Lysander Piano Trio and clarinetist Charles Neidich are scheduled to
present a program that showcases works by composers Paul Ben-Haim, Béla Bartók,
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco and Paul Hindemith, who were forced from their
homelands during the rise of Nazism and fascism” at Drake University in Des
Moines, IA.

2018:
Today, Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Lieberman “praised the
actions of security forces” during yesterday’s violent attacks yesterday in
Gaza.

2018:
Chabad in Iowa City under the leadership of Rabbi Avrohom Belsofsky is
scheduled to host Seudat Moshiach (Moshiach’s Meal) this evening.

2018(22nd of Nisan, 5778): Eighth Day of
Pesach; last day of the holiday.

2019:  The New
York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special
interest to Jewish readers including Kaddish.Com by Nathan Englander and the
recently released paperback editions of Homey Don’t Play That!: The Story of
“In Living Color” and the Black Comedy Revolution by David Peisner and
Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and
American by Steven J. Ross.

2019:
A broadcast of NPR’s From the Top featuring a “one-of-a-kind concert that
revolves around the theme of Jewish Music” is scheduled to take place at the
Breman Museum as part of the “Molly Blank Concert Series Celebrating Jewish
Contributions to Music.”

2019:
In Iowa City, “Iowa Hillel’s is scheduled to host its annual benefit concert”
featuring “Citrus Sunday.”

2019:
JW3 is scheduled to host two screenings of “Holy Lands,” a movie about an
American doctor who decides to become a pig farmer in Israel.

2019:
“The Kinloss Pre-Pesach trip to the British Museum lead by Rabbi Raphael
Zarum,” the Dean of the London School of Jewish Studies is scheduled to take
place this afternoon.

2019:
The Center for Jewish History, the American Jewish Historical Society and the
Yeshiva University Museum are among those scheduled to host “Family Genealogy
Day: Exploring Family Photos.”

2019:
In Greenville, SC, The Temple of Israel is scheduled to host ShalomFest’19.

https://www.visitgreenvillesc.com/event/shalomfest-19/30625/

2020:
Through the wonders of modern technology, The American Sephardi Federation is
scheduled to present “The Community and COVID-19” during which Dr. Hos Loftus
and Rabbi Dr. Elie Abadie will provide timely and important information on the
novel Coronavirus.

https://mailchi.mp/asf/ije_travels_in_jewish_history-egyptl-784237?e=9870a7a862

2020:
The Streicker Center is scheduled to host a virtual presentation by Bari Weiss
and Alana Newhouse on “Passover During a Plague.”

2020:
Todays virtual “Bidud Beyachdad, The LSJS Torah Show with Rabbi Raphael Zarum”
is scheduled to feature Bar Ilan University Professor Joshua Berman as its
special guest.

2020:
The English language version of “Yair Asulin’s prize-winning novel The Drive”
is scheduled to take place today.

http://newvesselpress.com/authors/yair-assulin/

2020:
“The discussion between Magda Teter (Fordham University) and Sara Lipton (SUNY
Stony Brook) about Dr. Teters new book, Blood Libel: On the Trail of
Antisemitic Myth, is scheduled to take place online via Zoom this
afternoon.

2020:
In Israel, a nationwide lockdown is scheduled “take effect today at 4 p.m.” a
day before the first Seder and is scheduled to end early on the morning of
April 10. (As reported by Raoul Wootliff)

2020(13^th
of Nisan, 5780): Yahrtzeit of Rabbi Joseph Caro, author the Shulchan Arukh,
which seems oddly fitting this year as Jews struggle with how to set the table
for Pandemic Pesach.

2021:
As part of the commemoration of Yom HaShoah, the Israel Office of Cultural
Affairs is scheduled to co-host a screening of “Who Will Write Our History,”
the film that tells the story of historian Emanuel Ringelbum who led the Warsaw
Ghetto resistance” using the proverbial pen followed by a discussion with
producer Nancy Spielberg and director Roberta Grossman

2021:
The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to present “Rising from the
Rubble: The POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews” with Barbara
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett.

2021:
In a milestone in the fight against the Pandemic, today marks the deadline for
signing up to attend this week’s Shabbat service at Tifereth Israel in
Columbus, OH.

2021:
The Hill Havurah is scheduled to host a screening of “Rosenwald: A Remarkable
Story of a Jewish Partnership with African American Communities which is a 2015
documentary film written and directed by Aviva Kempner about the career of
American businessman and philanthropist Julius Rosenwald” followed by a panel
discussion.

2021:
The UK Jewish Community National Holocaust Commeration “Remember Together We
Are One” is scheduled to take place this evening online.

https://mailchi.mp/jewishnews/this-wednesday-remember-together-on-yom-hashoah?e=025a365fe8

2021:
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled to present Defining an
Unimaginable Crime: The Story of Raphael Lemkin” the Polish Jewish attorney who
 escaped the Nazis but lost 49 members of
his family in the Holocaust and who coined the word genocide which he then devoted
his life to seeing  recognized as an
international crime.

2021:
The Jewish
Federation of Cleveland and Kol Israel Foundation are scheduled to spotlight
Barbara Winton, the daughter of Sir Nicholas Winton, who saved hundreds of
children from the Nazis through his organization of the Czech and Slovak
Kindertransport, during their annual Yom Hashoah V’Hagvurah event this evening.

https://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/news/local_news/yom-hashoah-to-feature-kindertransport-founder-s-daughter/article_3e29ba46-90bf-11eb-a1b1-df4ff5462e05.html

2021:
In commemoration of Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), The Jewish
Federation of the Quad Cities is scheduled to host a live, online walking tour
in the space where the Warsaw Ghetto once existed with stops at three (3)
special locations as narrated by attorney and Holocaust educator, Michael H.
Traison

2021:
Yesterday’s reporte by Dr. Sharon Alroy-Preis that the coronavirus pandemic in
Israel is beginning to do die out, gives credence to reports today that Israel
may be relaxing travel restrictions and will be allowing those with family
members and who have been vaccinated to enter the country.

2021:
COJECO, SAMi, and Genesis Philanthropy Group are scheduled to host “The Untold
Story of Bukharian Jews During WWII” during which Manashe Khaimov will present a
unique intergenerational video project that documented the little-told story of
the role of the Bukharian Jews in World War II; in addition to the stories of
Ashkenazi Jews who were evacuated from their homes and fled to Central Asia.

2022:
“In Search of Ladino” and “In Your Eyes, I See My Country” are scheduled to be
shown on the final night of the Jewish Sephardic Film Festival.

2022:
Yiddishkayt is scheduled to present a conversation with Anthony Mordechai Tzvi
Russell and Executive Director Rob Adler Peckerar as they discuss the
inspiration and context for his recent work My Own Personal Robeson/The
House We Live In. 

2022:
The YIVO Institute is scheduled to present a panel discussion on “Hope Is
Stronger Than Life: The Vilna Ghetto Diary of Zelig Kalmanovich.”

2022:
The Jewish Community Library is scheduled to present Benedetta Jasmine as she
discusses her Cooking alla Guiudia: A Celebration of the Jewish Food of
Italy her new book on Italian Jews’ culinary traditions, regional Italian
specialties, guides to Italian cities with Jewish histories and how Jews
changed Italian food

2022:
In a great example of inter-faith at its best, Temple Emanuel of Newton, MA is
scheduled to present its “32^nd Annual Project Manna Concert” with
proceeds going to benefit the Massachusetts Avenue Baptist Church Soup Kitchen.

2022:
In Palo Alto, CA, the Oshman Family JCC is scheduled to host a “Women’s Seder”
which celebrates “the holiday and its traditions from a feminist perspective,
focusing on women’s voices and experiences as they relate to the Passover
narrative.”

2022:
In Palm Beach Gardens, FL. Temple Judea, the spiritual home of Cantor Abbie
Strauss and Rabbi Feivel Strauss, is scheduled to host its “Women’s Seder.”

2022:
“Holy Sparks,” a celebration of fifty years of women in the rabbinate featuring
Rabbi Sally Priesand ’72, Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso ’74,Rabbi Amy Eilberg
’85, and Rabba Sara Hurwitz ’09 is scheduled to take place at the Dr Bernard
Heller Museum in New York.

2022:
Park Synagogue, AJC Cleveland, Cleveland NAACP and the Urban League of Greater
Cleveland are scheduled to host a virtual talk, “Taking Violent White
Supremacy to Court: The Charlottesville Trial/”

2022:
Hadassah Northeast is scheduled to present  Hadassah Momentum Trip to Israel 2022, where attendees
 will learn more about this exciting
opportunity for nine women in the Boston region.

2023(16^th
of Nisan, 5783): Second Day of Pesach; first day of the Omer.

2023:
At Temple Judea, Shabbat Services are scheduled to be a “family affair” since
they will be led  Rabbi Fievel Strauss
and Cantor Abbie Strauss.

2023:
Starting today, Bank Hapoalim is scheduled to sponsor  free entrance to 170 museums, national parks,
and heritage sites in Israel, including ANU – Museum of the Jewish People.

2023:
Following two days of rocket attacks launched from Gaza and Lebanon, Israelis
brace for more violence from organizations dedicated to the destruction of
their country.

2024:
The Around the Corner Art Center is scheduled to host a session of seder plate
making under the tutelage of the Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth County, NJ.

2024:
The 72^nd Annual Israel Folk Dance Festival is scheduled to take
place this afternoon at John Jay College’s Gerald W. Lynch Theatre.

2024:
The Museum at Eldride Street is scheduled to host a walking tour that “explores
Greenwich Village through a Jewish Lens.”

2024:
The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present a symposium on “Reconsidering
Jewish Migration to the United States: A Century of Controversy” which marks
the 100th anniversary of the pivotal Johnson-Reed Immigration Act of 1924.

2024:
The Jewish Federation of Cleveland is scheduled to host Ratzim Bishvilam, or
“Running for Them,” “a community-wide run or walk to mark six months since
Hamas attacked Israel, killing over 1,200 people and taking over 240 hostages,
of which 134 still remain in Gaza.”

2024:
In Manhattan, the Old Broadway Synagogue is scheduled to host “Klezmer on Ol’
Broadway with

Andy
Statman, Dan Blacksberg and Pete Rushefsky.

2024:
The Chicago Festival of Israel Cinema is scheduled to host a screening of
“Vishniac.”

2024:
This afternoon, the Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth Country is scheduled to
host “Rabbi Amar of Congregation Ahavat Olam in Howell, as he discusses the
similarities and differences of the Passover Holiday within the Ashkenazi and
Sephardic communities” and  “also sings
Ashkenazi and Sephardic songs, which are an important part of the holiday
tradition.”

2024:
As April 7th begins in Israel, the Hamas held
hostages begin day 184 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.)