This Day, March 12, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
March
12
515
BCE: On the secular calendar the construction of the Second Temple was
completed. (Book of Ezra, 6:15 “And this house was finished on the third day of
the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the
king.” Darius began his reign in 522 BCE.)
604:
Pope Gregory I passed away. Born in 540, Gregory was Pope from 590 until 604.
The great prelate was a vigorous foe of Judaism, a religion he believed was
based on depravity. In his eyes, “the Jewish understanding of scripture
was perverse.” He sought to keep Jews and Christians apart. He forbade
Christians from using Jewish doctors and would not let the clergy employee Jews
as clerks. Jews were not to hold public office, build new synagogues,
marry non-Jews or convert Christians to Judaism. But Gregory was not an
unmitigated anti-Semite. On several occasions he protected the private
property and synagogue of European Jews. One of his writings summed up
the view,
“Just
as it is not befitting to permit Jews in their communities to go beyond the
boundaries of what is permissible by law, so also the rights they already have
should not be diminished.”
1088:
Urban II began his papacy during which he initiated the First Crusade, which
brought death and destruction to the Jews all the way from the Rhineland to
Jerusalem.
1421:
In Vienna, under the auspices of Archduke Albert of Austria, a combination of
murder, libel and host-desecration charges brought about the destruction of the
entire Jewish community. This was partly due to the revival of the crusader
spirit of the Hussite Wars. Many Jews were forcibly baptized, others took their
own lives. The rest were forced to leave. Later this became known as the Wiener
Gezairah (The Vienna edict).
1496:
Maximilian I expelled the Jews from Styria, Austria.
1604:
Today, in Mexico, during the trial of Jorge de Almeida, by the Inquisition, the
prosecuting attorney testified that “the accused was a native of the city of
Almeida in the Kingdom of Portugal” and that just because “efforts to arrest
him have failed” “it is proper and necessary that such grave crimes as those of
which Jorge de Almeida is guilty should not remain unpunished” which means
“that the present prosecution and trail of Jorge de Almeida should not be
stopped but on the contrary be allowed to proceed in contumaciam.”
1664:
New Jersey becomes a colony of England. A year later, New Jersey granted
religious toleration to those living in the colony. While there were
undoubtedly Jewish merchants operating in the colony in the 17th
century, the honor of being the first Jews to live in the colony may go to
“Aaron and Jacob Lozada, who owned a grocery and hardware store in Bound Brook
as early as 1718.”
1619:
Fifty-two-year-old Richard Burbage who played the starring role in “The Jew of
Malta” each time it was performed by the Admiral’s Men passed away today
1682:
Anti-Jewish riots beak out in Krakow.
1708:
to De Blossiers Tovey, the “principal of New Inn Hall at Oxford” who devoted
much of his time to studying the history of the Jews of medieval England and
wrote Anglia Judaica (the History and Antiquities of the Jews in England)
“matriculated from Queen’s College, Oxford” today.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Tovey,_De_Blossiers_(DNB00)
1715:
Elector Max Emanuel ordered the expulsion of the few Jews still living in
Bavaria, Germany.
1734:
After a ship of Slazburgers who did not speak English arrived in Savannah,
Benjamin Sheftall, “speaking German fluently, the them in and treated them to a
breakfast of good rice soup.”
1760:
Birthdate of Heyum Hutzler, the son of Moses Hutzler.
1767(11th
of Adar II, 5527): Fast of Esther observed because the 13th of Adar
falls on Shabbat.
1776:
In Chevening, UK, Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope and Lady Hester Pitt gave
birth to Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope, the eccentric English noblewoman whose
“archaeological expedition to Ashkelon in 1815 is considered the first modern
excavation in the history of Holy Land archeology.”
1777:
During the American Revolution, Captain Lewis Bush who had transferred from the
Sixth Pennsylvania Battalion to Harley’s Additional Continental Regiment was
promoted to the rank of Major.
1778(13th
of Ada, 5538): Ta’anit Esther; erev Purim celebrated on the same day that
George Washington wrote from Valley Forge to New York Governor George Clinton that
“the Army has been pretty well supplied since, and I hope will continue to be
so, if proper steps are taken by the present Commissaries, or if there should
be a change for the better in that capital department” but there is a shortage
of “curing salt.”
1787:
Birthdate of Ellerstadt, Germany native Eleanor Anschel, the wife of Abraham
Wolf with whom she had eleven children.
1789(14th
of Purim, 5549): Purim
1789:
In Bonfeld, Germany, Schoenle Lazarus and Lazarus Ruben gave birth to Jendle
Ottenheimer, the wife of Samuel Stiefel.
1792:
In Tarrytown, NY, Jochabed Isaacks and Michael Marks gave birth to Abraham
Marks.
1792:
Wolf ben Meir was buried today at the “Alderney Road (Globe Rd) Jewish
Cemetery.
1792:
In Philadelphia, PA, Miriam Marks and Benjamin Abraham Nones gave birth to
Bilha Nones, the husband of Abraham De Leon with whom she had nine children.
1797:
Birthdate of Samuel Marum Mayer, the son of a Rabbi in Fruedental a convert to Lutheran Christianity who marred
a pastor’s daughter and became a lawyer and legal scholar.
1799:
One day after he had passed away, Moshe ben Judah was buried today at the
Lauriston Road Jewish Cemetery.
1800(15th
of Adar, 5560): Shushan Purim was celebrated for the first time in the19th
Century.
1804:
Twenty-five-year-old Danish merchant Hartvig Philip Ree married “Thamar (Therese) today after which they had a number of
children including Hertz Hartvig Rée, Anton Rée, Bernhard Philip Rée, Simon
Philip Rée, Israel Philip Rée, Vilhelm Hartvig Rée and Frederikke Privche von
Essen before Thamar passed away in 1850.
1810(6th of Adar II, 5570): Sara
Machado, the daughter of David Mendez Machado and the wife of Philip Moses
passed away today in Charleston, SC.
1811(16th
of Adar): Judah Leib ben Ze’ev, the first Jewish grammarian of modern times
passed away
1813:
Joseph “Yosef” Friedlander, a native of Austria, was in Dresden when he was
kidnapped by Russian troops who hired him as a translator when they discovered
that he could speak Russian.
1814:
Birthdate of Louis Jean Königswarter the Amsterdam native who became a leading
French economist
1817:
Henry Davis married Ellen Lewis at the Western Synagogue.
1817:
“Czar Alexander I of Russia declared the Blood Libel — the infamous accusation
that Jews murdered Christian children to use their blood in the baking of
matzah for Passover, for which thousands of Jews were massacred through the
centuries — to be false.” (Editor’s Note – based on subsequent events, this
was one time that Russians did not obey their Czar)
1819(15th
of Adar, 5579): Shushan Purim observed on the same day that 83 year-old John
Adams, the second president of the United States wrote to John Taylor
expressing his low opinion of banks at a time when having a Bank of the United
States was a major political issue.
1822:
L’esule di Granata (The exile of Granada) a melodrama (opera seria) in two acts
by German Jewish composer Giacomo Meyerbeer, had its world premiere at the
famed at La Scala Opera House in Milan, Italy.
1823(29th
of Adar, 5583): Thirty-nine-year-old Anne Emilie Solar, the wife of Moise Solar
and the daughter of Abraham Furtrado, the President
of the Assemblee des Notables, passed aeway today.
1824:
Birthdate of Darmstadt native Heinrich Blumenthal a successful manufacturer of
farm equipment and the President of Jewish Community of Darmstadt for more than
twenty years.
1827(13th
of Adar, 5587): Ta’anit Esther; erev Purim.
1834:
Joseph David married Julia Jacobs today.
1837:
Mordecai ben David married Leah bat Nathan today at the Western Synagogue.
1842:
In Canterbury, Mary Lazarus and David Nathan gave birth to Samuel Nathan
1844:
In Steele, Prussia, Israel Stein and Rosetta Kappel gave birth to Philip Stein,
a graduate of the University of Wisconsin where he earned a B.A. and M.A. a
member of the Milwaukee bar and the husband of Emma Stein who was elected Judge
in the Superior Court of Cook Country, Illinois in 1892 and appointed to the
Appellate Court in 1903.
http://www.amazon.com/In-memoriam-Judge-Philip-December/dp/B0008939FQ
1845:
Burnett Nathan married Marian Collins today at “29 Orchard Street, Marylebone,
London.”
1846(14th
of Adar, 5606): Purim
1847:
In Prossnitz, Moravia, Oberrabiner Hirsch B. Fassel “who had been decorated by
three emperors for his literary works” and Fannie Sternfeld gave birth
journalist Rosa Sonneschein who came to the United States in 1869 and was the
“publisher and editor of The American
Jewess.”
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/sonneschein-rosa
1849:
Elias N. Oberndorfer and Frances (Fanny) Oberndorfer gave birth to Rose Rosenbeg,
the wife of William Rosenberg and other of Minnie F. Hirsh
1849:
One day after she had passed away, “Yenta bat Hayim, the wife of Jacob ben
Yehiel” was buried today at the Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.
1852:
The New York Times publishes an
evaluation of the British government headed by Lord Derby which included
Benjamin Disraeli as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Disraeli’s appointment
to this particular post came as a surprise and, given what the Times reporter
considered his lack of aptitude for the job “his triumph will astonish the
public and lead to his greater glory.”
1856:
In Aldgate, London, Morocco born Isaac Benoliel and Rosetta Belasco gave birth
to their daughter Perla Isaac Benoliel.
1856:
In Liszka, Hungary, Wolfe Feuerlicht and Leah Cohen gave birth to Jacob
Feurlicht the husband of Rose Buxbaum, who came to the United States in 1882
and served as the rabbi at Moses Montefiore Congregation in Chicago, Gates of
Prayer in Boston, Ansche Chesed in Scranton, PA and B’nai Israel in Augusta, Ga
before become the Superintendent of the Jewish Hospital and Asylum in Baltimore
and finally the Superintended of the Jewish Home for the Aged in Chicago.
1856:
The New York Times reported that the
Greene Street Synagogue has replaced Anselm Leo with a new leader from Germany
who has musical skills which he has used to introduce a choir to the
congregation. No musical instruments are allowed, but a pitch pipe is
used to set the tone for the choir.
1858:
A black-bordered issue of The Asmonean, a weekly that first appeared in
1849 “under the patronage of the leading synagogues of New York, was published
today to mark the death of its founde and editor, Robert Lyon, the English Jew
who had arrived in New York in 1844.
1858:
In Cincinnati, OH, Julius and Betha Ochs gave birth to Adolph Simon Ochs..
Ochs, publisher of the New York Times.
Ochs was the engine behind the Times rise to being the “paper of
record” in the United States. Ochs is one of many American Jews who
have been involved in the media giving rise to the anti-Semites’ false claim
that Jews control the media. Ochs was the son of German Jews whom
immigrated to the United States before the Civil War. His life story is a
classic example of that groups rise to prominence from the end of the
Civil War through the start of World War II. It is obvious from reading
Ochs’ obituary in the New York Times that he was active in the Jewish
community and quite proud of his heritage. He was a Classical Reform
Jew. He was a trustee of Temple Emanu-El. He donated a building to
the Temple in Chattanooga named for his parents. And he raised
$4,000,000 (quite a sum in 1926) for the Hebrew Union College, which had been
founded by his father-in-law. In responding to an inquiry about the
keys to his success, Ochs wrote, in part, “My Jewish home life and
religion gave me a spiritual uplift and a sense of responsibility to my
subconscious better self –which I think is the God within me, the Unknowable
and the Inexplicable.”
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0312.html
http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0324/ms0324.html
1859:
In Middlesex, Caroline Benjamin and Isaiah Joshua Simmons gave birth to Ephraim
Simmons.
1862:
“The Line of the Mississippi” published today described the fortifications on
both the North and South sides of the city of New Orleans. According to
travelers who have recently arrived in St. Louis from the Crescent City, the
Jews are the only people in the city not “regularly enlisted” in its defense.
1862:
Second Lieutenant Samuel S. Bloom of Company H resigned from the 111th
Regiment today.
1862(10th
of Adar II, 5622: The U.S. Congress allowed Rabbis to serve as army chaplains.
1864:
Sgt. William P. Levi began his service with Company C. of the 54th
Regiment.
1865(14th
of Adar, 5625): Purim celebrated for the last time during the Presidency of
Abraham Lincoln.
1865:Birthdate
of Stuttgart native and attorney, Max Isidor Bodenheimer, an associate of
Theodore Herzl, the “first president of the Zionist Federation of Germany” and
one of the founders of the Jewish National Fund” who fled Nazi Germany a “settled
in Palestine” and who was the husband of Rosa Dalberg with whom he had three
children: Simon Fritz, a professor of zoology at the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, Henrietta Hannah, who wrote a biography of her father, and Ruth, a
lawyer.”
1869:
Abaham Issac Lev, the Richmond, VA born son of Isaac Abraham Levy and Hannah
Norris Levy and his wife Helen Levy gave birth to Cornelius Levy who died of a
heart attack in Cuba.
1869:
Four days after he had passed away, Benjamin Woolfe Franklin, the son of
Eliezer Franklin, the husband of Maria Levy and the father of Louisa Franklin
was buried today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1873(13th
of Adar, 5633): Fast of Esther; erev Purim
1873:
“The Palestine Lodge of the I.O. of F.S.I. will host a masque ball at the
Germania Assembly Rooms” tonight in New York as part of the celebration of
Purim.
1873:
A Purim masquerade will be held in Brooklyn tonight at the Assembly Rooms above
the Post Office.
1874:
Birthdate of Edmund Samuel Eysler, the son a Viennese merchant and husband of
Polodi Allnoch who gave up a career as an engineer to become a musician,
composer and Kapellmeister.
1876:
The annual Purim reception held at the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews located
at Lexington and 63rd Street began at 11 in the morning and lasted
until seven in the evening.
1876(16th
of Adar, 5636): Shushan Purim observed since Shabbat was on the 15th
day of Adar.
1876:
In Philadelphia, Julia and Simon I. Kohn gave birth to University of
Pennsylvania trained medical doctor, the husband of Elsa Leberman who in 1904
became the visiting physician at the Jewish Hospital, and member of the board
of directors of the Community Health Center, a part of the Federation of the
Jewish Charities while holding “various positions with the Philadelphia
Department of Health” and being a member of Rodeph Sholem Congregation.
1877:
Despite other claims based upon his gravestone, in Lyakhavichy, Minsk
Governorate, in the Russian Empire today is the birthdate of American Jewish
composer and choirmaster Joseph Broday an “associate of Cantor Joseph
Rosenblatt whose students included George Gershwin.
1878:
It was reported that the steamship Palestine, under the command of Captain
Whiteway has arrived in Liverpool from Boston.
1879:
In Lübeck, Rabbi Salomon Carlebach and his wife gave birth to Ephraim
Carlebach, who like four of his seven brothers became a rabbi and who moved to
Palestine in 1935 the year before he passed away in Ramat Gan.
1881:
Birthdate of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founding father of the modern secular
state of Turkey who served as its first President. In 1923, during the early days of the newly created
Turkish Republic Ataturk declared, “Our country has some elements who gave the
proof of their fidelity to the motherland. Among them I have to quote the
Jewish element; up to now the Jews have lived in happiness and from now they
will rejoice and will be happy.” Ataturk came
to the aid of the Jews in the early days of Hitler’s rise to power. “In 1933
Ataturk invited to Turkey many University Professors of Jewish origin that were
threatened by Nazi cruelty. The list of names is long; approximately 600
distinguished scholars took refuge in Turkey.”
1882:
In Lithuania, Dora Oppenheim and Zorach Barach gave birth to University of Pittsburgh
trained medical doctor Joseph Hayem Barach, the husband of Edna South Levy and
father of Joseph L. Barach and pathologist Richard Barach “who served as a
captain in the medical during WW I and was a member of the medical staff at
Presbyterian Hospital and a member of Temple Rodef Shalom in Pittsburgh.
1882:
Three days after he had passed away, Levi Alexander was buried today at the
“Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1883:
In Lithuania, Zorach and Deborah (Oppenheim) Barach gave birth to University of
Pittsburgh trained physician Joseph H. Barach, the husband of Edna Levy whom he
married 1915 and the father of pathologist Richard L. Barach and Joseph L.
Brach who was a captain in the Medical Corps during WW I and a member of Temple
Rodef Shalom in Pittsburgh.
1883:
Two days after he had passed away, Lewis Collins, the London born son Isaac
Kollem and Maria Mozes and the husband of Julia Isaacs with whom he had had
nine children was buried today. at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1884(15th
of Adar, 5644): Shushan Purim
1887:
Dr. Hugh L. Wintner, the rabbi at Temple Beth Elohim in Brooklyn delivered a
eulogy in memory of the late Henry Ward Beecher “at the regular Saturday
morning service” in which he said that Beecher “will be remembered by the
Jewish people like Mordecai of old as being a great promoter of their good,
advocating their welfare and speaking peace to all of them.”
1889:
Birthdate of New York City native and Harvard trained attorney Jacob Kaplan, a
special justice of the Dorchester Municipal Court, who for “nearly 50 years was
a leader of the Greater Boston Jewish Community while raising three sons with
his wife Anne.
1889:
Birthdate of Philip Guedalla, the Anglo-Jewish barrister and author whose quips
include this one that frightens all historians or would-be historians –
“History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.”http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/p/philip_guedalla.html
1890:
Birthdate of Polish native and WW I veteran of the Russian Army, Samuel Lewin
“a writer of novels, short stories and plays” who was the husband of Mrs.
Miriam Lewin and the father of Isaac, Simon and Jeremiah Lewin.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/06/05/82715661.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1890:
The Passover Relief Association held its 18th annual Purim
Masquerade Ball this evening at the Lexington Avenue Opera House.
1890:
In Maryland, Kiev native Moses Lewin, the son of Henry and Ida Levine and his
wife Hannah Lewin gave birth to future Massachusetts resident Frances Horlick,
the wife of Rubin Horlick.
1891:
Jesse Seligman received a draft for twelve million francs from Baron Hirsch
today.
1891:
Birthdate of Hungarian born American scientist turned philosopher, Michael
Polanyi.
1892(13th
of Adar, 5652) Parashat Tetzeveh; Shabbat Zachor and Erev Purim
1893:
At the Stepney Synagogue on Jersey, David Lawton, “the youngest son of the late
John and Jane Lawton” married Rebecca Michaels, the youngest daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Isaac Michaels of Aldgate.
1893:
Rabbi Adloph Radin of Shaari Tikvah was one of the speakers who addressed the
crowd gathered at the hall of the Hebrew Institute where citizens were
protesting the closing of the annex to Grammar School #7 on Hester Street.
1894(4th
of Adar II, 5654): Ludwig August Ritter von Frankl-Hochwart passed away after
leading a multi-faceted life. Born in Boehmia in 1810, he studied Hebrew
with Zecharias Frankel, earned an M.D. from the University of Pauda before
moving to Vienna. There he served as secretary and archivist of the
Vienna Jewish congregation and became active in the Revolution of 1848.
He was a prolific author and philanthropist whose literary works include “Nach
Jeruslem” which describe his travels to Asia, Greece and Jerusalem where he
help founded a school. And this is only the tip of the iceberg. (As
reported by Singer and Mannheimer)
http://digitool.library.mcgill.ca/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=59809&local_base=GEN01-MCG02
1894:
Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time. Coca-Cola was actually first
introduced in 1886 at Jacob’s Pharmacy in Atlanta. Ga. Jacob’s Pharmacy was
owned by Dr. Joe Jacobs who is buried in the same section of Atlanta’s Oakland
Cemetery as other prominent Atlanta Jews including Morris Rich, founder of
Rich’s Department Store. Coke was not certified as Kosher and Kosher for
Passover until 1935 thanks to the efforts of an Atlanta orthodox rabbi named
Tobias Geffen. http://www.ajhs.org/publications/chapters/chapter.cfm?documentID=270
1895:
Four days after he had passed away, 61 year old John Marsh was buried today at
the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1895:
Dreyfus arrives in French Guyana.
1895:
Three days after she had passed away, Maria Levy who had married John Goodman
Levy after the death of her first husband, Jacob Myers. Was buried today at the
“West Ham Jewish Cemetery.”
1895:
“The Rights of Clubmen” published today described the struggle between saloon
owners and members of private clubs in New York. Among the clubs that
could be affected by a change in status would be the Adelphi Club, which is the
leading private Jewish club in Albany. Its members include “some of the
wealthiest Jews” living in the state capital.
1896:
Judge Charles P. Daly will deliver an address entitled “Songs and Song Writing”
at tonight’s meeting of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association.
1896:
Today’s special performance of “The Heart of Maryland” which was intended to
raise funds for the Hebrew Infants’ Asylum has been postponed until the end of
the month.
1896:
It was reported today that “Charles Frohman has purchased a new melodrama”
which he will not name but says will be produced in Boston before being brought
to Broadway.
1897(8th
of Adar II, 5657): Eighty-seven-year-old Daniel Sanders, who earned a doctorate
in 1843 after studying at the universities of Berlin and Halle and who served
as a school principal for ten years before pursuing a career as a German
grammarian and lexicographer passed away today.
1897:
About 200 cloakmakers who are employed in the shops of contractors who work for
Julius Stein & Co in Manhattan went out on strike today.
1897:
The will of Elias Joseph which was filed with the Surrogate today left three
bequests of $1,000 each to the Montefiore Home, Mount Sinai Hospital and the
Hebrew Orphan Asylum.
1898:
Sir George Henry Lewis, the well-known Jewish lawyer testified before a
committee of the House of Commons that was investigating “the evils of money
lending.”
1898:
“Boston Announcements” published today included a description of a book of
Yiddish poetry with an English translation written by Maurice Rosenfeld which
will be published Messrs. Copeland & Day. The translation is
being prepared by Professor Wiener of Harvard. Jewish author Israel
Zangwill and Abraham Cahan, editor of the Forwards
have expressed their approval of the work.
1898:
“Anti-Juif Bourguignon,” appeared today for the first time at Dijon.
1899(1st
of Nisan, 5659): Rosh Chodesh Nisan
1899(1st
of Nisan, 5659): Sir Julius Vogel, the first Jewish Premier of New Zealand
passed away.
1899:
Seventy-five-year-old Hannah Jacobs, a native of Poland who was the wife of
Nathan Jacobs was buried today at the Bath Jewish Burial Ground.
1900:
In Logansport, Indiana, founding of Congregation Beth El which held its
services in the Universalist Church and whose members, over time, included
Rabbi Joseph Leiser of Lafayette, Jorden Hecht, Ben Fisher, Henry Wiler and
Henry L. Bregstone.
1901(21st
of Adar,5561): On the Jewish calendar yahrzeit Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Spektor
author of Be’er Yizhak.
1901(21st
of Adar, 5561) On the Jewish calendar observance “Purim Narbonne, the oldest
private Purim on record” which was first observed in 1236.
1901:
Birthdate of St. Louis native and St. Louis University trained attorney and
banker David Lichtenstein, Sr. the founder of the David B. Lichtenstein
Foundation.
1902:
Sophia Karp, Jacob Fischel and Joseph Lateiner founded the Grand Theatre in New
York which was the first theatre in New York built to serve as venue for
performing Yiddish theatricals.
1903:
Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf arrived at his home in Philadelphia “to-day from
Cincinnati and announced that he had accepted the Director Generalship of the
Isaac M. Wise Endowment Fund Committee of the Hebrew Union College, which
office was tendered him during a meeting of rabbis at Cincinnati.”
1904:
Herzl authorizes Dr.Leopold Kahn to enter into negotiations with the Ottoman
Empire for renting the administrative revenues of the Sanjak of Acre and for a
loan to be obtained for the Imperial treasury.
1905:
Birthdate of Myles S. Friedman the center on the Syracuse University football
team from 1924-1926 and President of Benjamin and Johnes, the manufacturer of
foundation garments who co-founded Camp Robin Hood for boys and raised a
daughter, Judy with his wife Leona.
1906:
“Startling reports of the condition and future of Russia’s 6,000,000 Jews were
made” today “in Berlin to the annual meeting of the Central Jewish Relief
League by Germany by Dr. Paul Nathan…who has returned from an extensive trip
through Russia as the special emissary of Jewish philanthropists in England,
America and Germany to arrange for distribution of the relief fund of
$1,500,000 raised after the massacres last Autumn.”
1906:
Solomon Schechter and Louis Marshall are among the speakers scheduled to speak
at this evening’s dinner “for the faculty, students, directors and officers of
the Jewish Theological Seminary of America on 123rd Street and
Broadway.
1907:
Abraham Goldsmith purchased the building at 99 Fifth Avenue today.
1908:
Birthdate of David Saul Marshall. Born in Singapore to an Orthodox family that
had come from Iraq, Marshall was trained as a lawyer. After World War II
he became leader of the Labour Front political party and in 1955 became the
first Chief Minister of Singapore.
1909:
In Sophia, Bulgaria, The Medical Congress decided to print brochures in Ladino.
The decision was in response to a request from a Christian Delegate who asked
that this be done for the benefit of Jews unfamiliar with the Bulgarian
language.
1910:
At the first meeting of the sub-committee on laws of the Civic Federation’s
Committee on Compensation for Industrial Accidents “letters were received from
Louis Brandeis of Boston giving suggestions the establishment of an accident
insurance system” designed to provide relief for workers injured on the job.
1911:
Vera Cheberiak, leader of a group of thieves in Kiev, makes plans to have
Andrei Yustschinski murdered. His murder will touch off the infamous
Mendel Bellis Case.
1912:
“The application of Jewish citizens of New York City, who are engaged in
organizing a battalion to become affiliated with the National Guard, was
received by Adjt. Gen. Verbeck to-day.”
1913:
The Annual Conference on Child Labor, which Leon Schwarz of Mobile, AL attended
as a delegate appointed by the Governor opened today in Jacksonville, FL.
1914(14th
of Adar, 5674): Last Purim before the outbreak of WW I.
1914:
Birthdate of Irwin “King Kong” Klein, the Younkers native who was an All-American
football player at New York University and who led the NYU basketball team to a
16-0 as a sophomore in 1934 and then to a 19 and 1 record the following season
which led “to the Helms National Championship.”
1914(14th
of Adar, 5674: Pauline Blumenthal the daughter of architect and engineer
Maurice Blumenthal, the Brooklyn born son of Jacob Hersh Blumenthal and Dinah
Judith Hyman Blumenthal, and his wife Miriam Blumenthal passed away two days
after her birth.
1915:
General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell met with a delegation headed by Jabotinsky to
discuss the formation of a “Jewish fighting unit” in the British Army. “The
General said he was unable, under the Army Act, to enlist foreign nationals as
fighting troops, but that he could form them into a volunteer transport Mule
Corps.”
1915:
As of today, the fund of the American Jewish Relief Committee for Suffers from
the War has collected $555, 3119.19
1915:
“The Vice,” a German silent film directed and written by Richard Oswald who was
forced to flee when the Nazis came to power and produced by Jules Greenbaum was
released today in Germany.
1916:
According to a report tonight by H.E. Adelman, the Secretary of the Hebrew Free
Burial Association at the annual meeting at the Uptown Talmud Torah, “in the
last year 1,253 people were buried by the association” including “353 buried
from their homes, 218 from Bellevue Hospital and the morgue, 651 from other
institutions, 28 from outside” of New York City and 3 disinterments from Jewish
cemeteries.
1916:
The National Union for Jewish Rights held its first meeting this afternoon in
London. The Anglo-Jewish community formed the organization to secure the rights
of the Jews at the end of the World War. Lucien Wolf and Israel Zangwill
addressed the group. Zangwill said that “if England got Palestine” he
“hoped a Jewish governor would be appointed.
1916:
Pianist Vera Kaplun-Aronson and soprano Mrs. George Halperin are scheduled to
perform this afternoon at “the 19th regular Sunday afternoon
concert…at the Chicago Hebrew Institute.
1916:
Rabbi Wolf Gold of the Third Street Synagogue opened the convention today in
Sonia Hall where “more than 400 delegates from Jewish societies in Brooklyn”
met “to consider plans for the proposed Jewish Congress and to elect delegates
to the preliminary conference” to be held later this month in Philadelphia.
1916:
This afternoon Rabbi Max Reichler and Cantor Morris Schrager officiated at the
dedication ceremonies of “the new Temple of the Sinai Congregation of the Bronx
a Stebbins Avenue and East 163rd Street” which “were attended by
nearly 1,000 including the 125 members of the temple.”
1916:
Today The Day, the Jewish daily newspaper edited by Herman Bernstein
published the following cablegram from a special correspondent in Berne.
“I have learned from an absolutely reliable source that the Pope has prepared
an important document of great interest to the Jewish people. It is
understood that this document will prove of the same importance and
significance as the bull issued by Pope Innocent IV denouncing the ritual
murder accusations against the Jews as false and based upon a cruel legend. The
present statement by the Pope, who has interested himself so deeply in peace is
devoted to the sorrows of the Jews in the belligerent lands and contains a plea
for justice and fairness to the Jews.” [The article referred to Pope Benedict
XV.]
1917:
During the Russian Revolution, the Duma elected a “provisional committee” which
was effectively a new executive branch for the Russian government that would
replace the Czar. The apparent triumph of these social democrats offered
hope (ultimately false hope) for the Jews of Russia that revolution would lead
to liberation.
1917:
At 11:00 a.m. Dr. Enelow is scheduled to speak on “The Jewish Messiah Idea and
Jesus” followed by the daily noon service.
1918:
Following the signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, today Erzurm returned to
Turkish control which may have given the Ottomans hope that they would regain
control of the rest of their Empire including Palestine.
1919:
Louis Marshal, President of the Executive Committee of the American Jewish
Committee and Dr. Cyrus Adler, the chairman of the committee left today aboard
Caronia as they began their voyage to the Peace Conference at Paris.
1920:
In Berlin, NH, Hyman Abramson, the son of Stella and Abraham Abramson and
brother of New Hampshire state legislator Nathan Abramson who was responsible
for the passage of legislation ending discrimination against Jews in summer
resorts, and his wife Ida Abramson gave
birth to Harry Abramson, the nephew of Rabbi Marui Abramson.
1920:
Birthdate of Roland Lorent a member of the anti-Nazi Ehrenfeld Group who was
hanged in 1944.
1921:
The Histadrut (General Federation of Labor) passed a resolution to establish
the Haganah. Haganah, (literally “defense”) was
established for the purpose stated in its name. It
was organized to protect the Jewish settlements from Arab attacks –
something the British could not or would not do.
1921:
Birthdate of Harry Hamilton Pollak, the Passaic, NJ native, graduate of Rutgers
and the University of Chicago and husband of the former Suzette L. Aldon who
was serving as “labor advisor to Secretary of State Edmund Muskie” at the time
of his death in 1980.
1921:
The Cairo Conference began during which Winston Churchill sought to examine the
workings of the British Mandates for governing Iraq and Palestine.
1921:
In New York City, Iphigene (née Ochs) and Arthur Hays Sulzberger, “the
publisher of the NYTimes from 1935 to 1961” gave birth the second of their four
children Ruth Sulzberger Holmberg whose exciting life included working as a Red
Cross Volunteer in Europe during WW II, to a career in journalism and the
benefactor of wide variety of charities and institutions.
1922(12th
of Adar, 5682): Samuel Hirsch Margulies passed away. Born at Berezhany in 1858, he held several
rabbinic posts before being appointed chief rabbi of Florence, Italy in 1890
where he also became head of the Collegio Rabbinco when it was transferred from
Rome to Florce
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Florence.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20080623041000/http://www.bh.org.il/Communities/Synagogue/florence.asp
1922(12th
of Adar, 5682): Eighty-year-old Minnie Dessau Louis passed away.
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/louis-minnie-dessau
1922:
According to reports published today Samuel Untermeyer and his son Irwin are
among the members of a New York committee that has pledged to raise $100,000
for the Woodrow Wilson Foundation fund.
1922:
In Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, CA, Max and Jennie Gold gave birth to Sydney
Gold who gained famed body-builder Joe Gold, founder of Gold’s Gym – one of the
most ubiquitous fitness centers found in most major and not so major cities in
the United States.
1923:
It was reported today that Samuel Gompers, the President of the American
Federation, who is being treated by Dr. G.G. Fish at Lenox Hill Hospital is
“making good progress” in his fight with Pneumonia and should be able to go
Florida at the end of the week so he can fully recuperate.
1924:
In front of 1,000 men and women who were attending a reception in his honor in
the grand ballroom of the Hotel Astor, Dr. Joseph Silverman, Rabbi Emeritus of
Temple Emanu-El, for many years a non-Zionist, who has just returned from a six
month trip that included spending time in Palestine declared in an address
tonight that he intended to devote the remainder of his life to the cause of
Palestine.
1925:
“Decorated from stem to stern with flags of the international code and bearing
the six-pointed star — the shield of David — on her funnels, the steamship
President Arthur of the American-Palestine Line sailed today for the Holy Land
with 400 passengers, beginning a new steamship service and linking Palestine
directly with New York.”
1926:
It was reported today that of the 32,000 Jews who left Poland in 1925, 15,000
went to Palestine, 8,616 went to Argentina and 3,840 went to the United States.
1926:
It was reported today that Henry Ittlelson had been commissioned by William Fox
“to solicit contributions for the United Jewish Campaign of New York from
Jewish citizens of New York” who are in Europe.
1927(8th
of Adar II, 5687): Shabbat Zachor
1927:
Helen Elizabeth Littleton and Robert Livingston Wetmore were married this
afternoon in the Manhattan home of S. Stanwood Menken, the Memphis born Jew and
Columbia trained attorney who converted to Christianity
1927:
Paul and Fay Parnes gave birth today to William Irwin Parnes.
1927:
Offices of Hias-Ica-Emig-directed, the organization formed by Hias “in
cooperation with the Jewish Colonization Association and the United Jewish
Immigration Committee” designed to help Jewish immigrants move to “Southern
American countries eager for Jewish immigrants” “began to function today” in
“the principal ports” so provide help immigrants learn the native language and
places them “with some trade.”
1928:
Birthdate of Mordechai Eliyahu, the Jerusalem native who would become a
prominent rabbi, posek and who would serve as the Sephardi Chief Rabbi of
Israel from 1983 to 1993.
1929:
One of the first “talkie Hollywood Biblical epics, “Noah’s Ark,” the Warner
Brothers film written by Darryl Zanuck premiered to critical and popular
acclaim in New York City.
1930:
Birthdate of Los Angeles native Eugene Bleecher Selznick gold medal winning
volleyball player and coach.
1930:
“Frederick Brown, real estate operator and philanthropist, was presented with
the American Arbitration Association medal for the promotion of industrial
peace, at a luncheon today, held at the Hotel Astor, in “recognition of his
distinguished service in promoting good-will in business relations.”
1931:
Grand Rabbi Chaim Leib Auerbach, “the founder of and dean of Kabbalah
University in Jerusalem who arrived in Brooklyn on March 11 and was greeted by
the acting mayor of New York at city hall is spending his second day in the
United States.
1932:
U.S. premiere of “The Lost Squadron” — first RKO production to carry the
screen credit “Executive Producer, David O. Selznick” with music by
Max Steiner and additional dialogue written by Herman J. Mankiewicz.
1932:
Supreme Court Benjamin Cardozo was among the judges for the National Oratorical
Contest which announced its winners tonight.
1933:
CBS broadcast the first episode of “Lazy Dan, The Minstrel Man” starring Irving
Kaufman.
1933(14th
of Adar,5693) Purim celebrated as during the Great Depression, newly elected
President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his first “fire-side” chat today.
1934:
“Alfred M. Cohen,
international president of B’nai B’rith, Jewish philanthropic society, termed
“senseless cruelty” today moves of the Hitler government that are
interpreted as indicating the dissolution of the order’s lodges in Germany.”
1934:
Professor Morris R. Cohen and Herman Bernstein were among the speakers at
tonight’s evening of dinner and entertainment aboard the United States Liner
which was a benefit designed to raise funds for refugees from Germany.
1935: After opening in New York in January, “The
Good Fairy” a movie version of the Broadway play, directed by William Wyler and
Carl Laemmle, Jr. opened today in Los Angeles.
1936:
Warsaw’s Chief Rabbi, Moses Schorr, who is also a Senator, told that body about
“a veritable pogrom in Prztyk, in central Poland” and then “appealed to the
Interior Minister to put an end to the anti-Semitic rioting occurring all over
the country.”
1936:
Count Rostworowski, “a member of the government party…requested the government
to combat the growing anti-Semitic movement, which he said was aimed at the
government” adding that anti-Semitism “was the Nationalists’ strongest weapon
with which to weaken the government and win over the population.
1936:
In Chicago, Edward Reba and Suzanne Greenberg gave birth to Daniel Edward Reba
who gained fame as children’s book author Daniel Cohen, who fought for justice
for the families of the victims of Pan Am Flight 103 one of whose passengers
was he daughter Theodora. (As reported by Richard Sandomir.)
1937: The Palestine Post reported that the
Colonial Secretary, Mr. Ormsby-Gore, told the House of Commons that from 1922
to 1935 the population of Jerusalem rose from 63,000 to 110,000; of Tel Aviv
from 15,000 to 110,000; of Jaffa from 33,000 to 74,000 and of Haifa from 25,000
to 85,000. He added that a committee had been set up by the High Commissioner
in 1932 to consider compulsory health insurance, but it had decided that the
introduction of such system in Palestine was premature, especially for the Arab
section of the population.
1937:
As proof that “virtual services” were not a product of the COVID Pandemic, in
New York radio station WHN broadcast Temple Emanu-El services from 5:15 to 6:15
pm
1938:
Hitler entered Austria to the greetings of the Church and Cardinal Innitzer.
Seys-Inquert, who later achieved infamy as a mass murderer of Jews, was
appointed Chancellor. The following day, Austria was annexed to Germany. Just a
month before Hitler’s arrival, J.D. Salinger left Vienna to return to the
United States. He had been in the country since 1937 where he was learning
about the meat-importing business.
1938:
During the Spanish Civil War, the Botwin Company named after Jewish Polish
radical Naftali Botwin were one of the units that went into action today when
fighting began at Belchite.
1938:
As part of its drive to raise $4,500,000, The United Palestine Appeal issued a
report today focusing on the growth in Palestine over the last twenty
years. Among highlights of the report are figures showing that from 1931
to 1936, exports increased from eight million dollars to eighteen million
dollars. At the same time, bank deposits more than doubled in the last five
years and the numbers of factories and workshops more than doubled in the
period starting in 1921 and ending in 1937.
1939:
Pope Pius XII was crowned Pope in Vatican ceremonies. While the Catholic Church
may be considering Pious XII for canonization, the Jewish view of him is
one who is “impious.”
1939:
Mrs. Tehilla Lichtenstein is scheduled to deliver an address on “A Time to Be
Silent and a Time to Speak” this morning at the Jewish Science Society.
1939:
Rabbi Hyman Judah Schactel is scheduled to deliver an address on “Palestine
Today” at the West End Synagogue.
1939:
Rabbi Israel Goldstein is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “The Religion of the
Unintelligent” at Temple B’nai Jeshurun.
1939:
Rabbi Nathan A Perlman is scheduled to deliver a sermon this morning at Temple
Emanu-El.
1939:
Rabbi Stephen S. Wise is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “The London-Palestine
Conference and Arab Appeasement” at the Free Synagogue in Carnegie Hall.
1940:
It was announced today at UJA headquarters in New York City that “Edward M.M.
Warburg, son of the late Felix M. Warburg, has accepted the chairmanship for
the New York metropolitan area of the 1940 campaign of the United Jewish Appeal
for Refugees and Overseas Need.”
1940:
Tova Haber, a homemaker and Yehuda Haber, who worked for the local chamber of
commerce, and was a supporter of the right-wing Herut movement, led by Menachem
Begin gave birth to Eitan Haber, the trusted confidant of Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin, who announced to the nation Mr. Rabin’s shocking death. (As
reported by Isabel Kershner)
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/16/world/middleeast/eitan-haber-dead.html
1941:
Churchill met with Weizmann and reiterated his support for the eventual
establishment of Jewish military units and a Jewish state in Palestine.
1941: A sentry shot and killed a 13-year-old in the
Lodz ghetto.
1942(23rd
of Adar): David Raziel was killed while serving for the British in Iraq
1942: The Nazis ordered 8,000 Jews from southern
Polish town of Mielec to be at the train station. The next morning, as they
gathered, 2,000 children and elderly were shot dead at the train station.
1943:
In Chicago, Illinois, Rabbi Eliyahu Meir Finkel and his wife, Sara Rosenblum
gave birth to Nosson Tzvi Finkel, the Haredi Rabbi who became Rosh Yeshiva of
the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem
1943:
Aaron Copland’s ”Fanfare for the Common Man” was performed for the first
time, by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
1943(5th
of Adar II, 5703): Ninety-two-year-old Mary Jane Phillips Greenawalt, the widow
of Abraham Greenawalt passed away today
1943(5th
of Adar II, 5703): Forty-eight-year-old Jiří (Georgo) Mordechai Langer passed
away in Tel Avi.
http://tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/186696/kafka-langer
1943: Tonight
is the night when Oskar Schindler
changed his life, the life of his workers and history. Addressing his workers,
he told them not to go home tonight. The Krakow ghetto, he said, would be
liquidated the next day. Schindler had witnessed the killings and decided he
must protect his laborers. He would build his own concentration camp as a
satellite to Kraków-Plaszów, and his staff would compile the now famous list of
workers he wanted transferred to his camp.
1944: “In a half hour lecture on Hebrew
contributions to civilization, Mayor La Guardia tonight told 700 persons at a
dinner meeting of the National Council of Fraternal and Landsmanshaften
Organizations for the Yeshiva and Yeshiva College, that “a people that
have such a tradition that has given so much has a lasting permanent place in
this world, and nothing can destroy it.”
1944: “Rabbi
Stephen S. Wise, who was born on St. Patrick’s Day seventy years ago, was guest
of honor at a dinner given tonight by the Jewish Institute of Religion in the
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, opening a week’s ceremonies in celebration of his
birthday and the completion of more than fifty years of activity in American life.”
1944: “German
troops received orders by Hitler to capture critical Hungarian facilities.”
1945(27th of Adar, 5705): Bernard Drachman, who
served as rabbi at the Park East Synagogue for 55 years starting in 1890,
passed away today.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/5302-drachman-bernard
1945:
According to some sources, this is the day Anne Frank died at Bergen Belsen two
months before the liberation by British forces.
1946: While
appearing today as a witness for Hermann Goering at the Nuremberg Trials,
“Field Marshal Gen. Albert Kesselring, who ordered the bombing of Warsaw,
Rotterdam and Coventry, appeared today before the International Military
Tribunal and attempted to justify his acts.”
1946: Dr.
Judah L. Magnes, the president of the Hebrew University is prepared to speak in
favor of the “compromise proposal that Palestine be constituted a bi-national
state with eventual numerical equality of Jews and Arabs which was presented to
the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry today.”
1947: In the
U.K. premiere of “Nicholas Nickleby” a screen adaption of the novel by the same
name produced by Michael Bolton, the son of Jewish immigrants
1947:
Speaking as leader of the Loyal Opposition, Churchill attacks the Labor Party’s
policy in Palestine attacking what he called “a senseless, squalid war with the
Jews, in order to give Palestine to the Arab or God knows who.”
1947:
A British corvette warned British troops that a large number of Jewish refugees
on board the SS Susanna, were attempting to land on the southern coast of
Palestine. British troops assisted by the local Arab population worked to
intercept and arrest the refugees. The British reported that they had
captured almost 900 people but 240 may have been Jewish citizens of Palestine.
1947:
The Truman Doctrine was proclaimed today. It was a policy set forth by
U.S. President Harry S Truman stating that the U.S. would support Greece and
Turkey with economic and military aid to prevent their falling into the Soviet
sphere. Greece was in the throes of a civil war where one side was
supported by the Soviets. In February of 1947, the British government
informed Washington, that it was too broke to continue its traditional role of
protecting Greece which had been part of its “sphere of influence.” While
Britain did not have the money to halt Soviet imperial expansion, she
apparently had enough funds to patrol the Mediterranean to stop Jews from
getting to Palestine. And she had enough money to support what had become an
army of occupation aimed at thwarting the creation of a Jewish homeland.
It should be remembered that when President Truman was being pressured to deal
with the problems of the displaced Jews of Europe and the issue of Palestine,
he was also dealing with an explosion of other problems including the Soviet
drive to control Europe. His decisions vis a vis the Jews must also be
viewed against the backdrop of a much larger world stage which the United
States was only reluctantly entering on to.
1947:
During a session of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine, Auni
Bey Abdulhadi described the “wartime associations of the Mufti of
Jerusalem…with Hitler and Mussolini.”
1948(1st
of Adar II, 5708): Rosh Chodesh Adar II
1948:
Orville Prescott provided a complete review of A Mask For Privilege:
Anti-Semitism in America by Carey McWilliams.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1948/03/12/84616561.pdf
1948:
“The representatives of the United States, the Soviet Union, China and France
heard leaders of the Jewish Agency for Palestine present a nine-point plan for
implementation by the Security Council of the United Nations General Assembly
for a partition of” Palestine.
1949:
The raising of a hand-drawn flag, known as the “Ink Flag over the police
station at Umm Rashrash, the future site of the city of Eilat, at 16:00 “is
considered to mark the end of the War of Independence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ink_Flag#/media/File:Raising_the_Ink_Flag_at_Umm_Rashrash_(Eilat).jpg
1949(11th
of Adar): At the conclusion of Operation Uvada, the commander sent the
following telegram “”On Hagana day, the 11th of Adar, the Palmach Negev
brigade and the Golani brigade present the Gulf of Eilat to the State of
Israel”.
1949:
Birthdate of producer, director and writer Rob Cohen. It may not be fair to
include Cohen on this page given his view of being Jewish. When asked
about his feelings about being Jewish Cohen has said, “I’m totally in reaction
to it. I’ve never been comfortable with the Jewish identity. It’s been one of
those crosses to bear that I had the surname ‘Cohen’ which is a label. You
can’t hide even if you wanted to, so I don’t practice. It’s not anything of
interest to me. I don’t want to rediscover it. I’m not interested.”
1950:
The Foreign Ministry of Israel is scheduled to host a reception for members of
the Istanbul Fenerache soccer team who played their first game in Tel Aviv
yesterday. The reception is in response to the fact that Turkey announced
its decision earlier this week to recognize the state of Israel.
1950(23rd
of Nisan, 5710): Eighty-three-year-old Dr. Armand Ahron Noach Kaminka, the son
of Wolf and Sura Beile Kaminka and husband of Klara Kaminka, “the renowned
rabbi, Hebrew scholar and secretary of Alliance Israelite Universelle in
Vienna” who was arrested by the Nazis in 1938, passed away today.
http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Kaminka_Aharon
1950(23rd
of Nisan, 5710): Louis I. Jaffe who had been editor of The Norfolk
Virginian-Pilot for thirty years” and who “was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for
an editorial” opposing lynching passed away today.
https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/jaffe-louis-i-ca-1888-1950/
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1950/03/14/84813943.pdf
1950:
As a reminder of the fact that the Jewish state is surrounded by enemies
committed to its destruction “the Israeli Defense Ministry today ordered the
registration for the Army Reserve of all physicians between the ages of 29 and
49.” Reportedly the government will soon require all civilians between
the ages of 18 and 49 who have not served in the military to register with the
Ministry of Defense.
1950:
The New York Times reported that the Israel Ministry of Education and
Culture has appointed Mr. Frank Pelleg to serve as head of its music
department.
1951(4th
of Adar II, 5711: Sixty-five-year-old Samuel Plaut, the President of the
Metropolitan Slaughters Association passed away today at Woodmere, Long Island.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1951/03/13/113175694.pdf
1951:
In Hartford, CT, Jacob (Jack) Isserman and the former Flora Huffman gave birth
to Maurice Isserman, a “long-time Professsor of History at Hamilton College”
and the award winning biographer of Michael Harrington.
1951(4th
of Adar II, 5711): Seventy-seven-year-old London born, internationally
acclaimed concert pianist Harold Bauer who performed for the first time in the
United States in 1900 and “gave his last formal concert in 1939” passed away
today having been pre-deceased by his wife Marie Knapp who had passed away in
1940.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1951/03/13/113175687.pdf
1951: As of this date the Iraqis allowed planes filled with Jewish refugees
to fly straight to Israel instead of having to go to Cyprus first.
1951:
Eighty-five-year-old Alfred Hugenberg, the German “industrialist and
monarchist” whose right wing party was jettisoned by Hitler after he had
reached power passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1951/03/13/113175724.pdf
1952(15th
of Adar, 5712): Shushan Purim
1952: The
Jerusalem Post
reported that Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett met Sir Anthony Eden, the British
foreign secretary, in London and told him that Israel was eager to reach a
settlement with its neighbors and to stop to “perpetuate its
loneliness” in the area.
1953:
Birthdate of Ron Jeremy, pornographic film actor
1954: The
first performance of Arnold Schönberg’s “Moses und Aaron.” This was
not the only Jewish themed work by this great Jewish composer.
1954:
Birthdate of British sculptor Anish Kapoor who was born in Bombay (Mumbai) to
Jewish mother whose family emigrated from Baghdad and whose grandfather was the
cantor in the Synagogue in Pune. Kapoor lived on a Kibbutz and after
discovering that Engineering was not his forte decided to gain the skills that
have made him a famous artist.
1954:
Birthdate of Chicago native Larry Rothschild who was the first manager of the
newly minted Tampa Bay Devil Rays as well as a successful pitching coach for
numerous teams including the New York Yankees.
1955:
Opening of the 2nd Pan American Games during which Eugene Selznick’s
led U.S. Volleyball team won a gold medal.
1955:
Birthdate of Druze Israeli political leader and MK Ayoob Kara.
1956:
The 1956 NCAA Basketball Tournament in which Temple coached by Harold “Chief”
Litwak defeated Holy Cross, Connecticut and Temple in the East Region began
today.
1957:
Birthdate of actor Jerry Levine.
1958(20th
of Adar, 5718): Seventy-nine-year-old Vienna born realtor and philantrhopist
Morris Brukenfeld, the founder of M. Brukenfeld and Company, “a velvet and silk
jobbing firm” and husband of Sarah Sacks Brukenfeld with whom he had two sons
and two daughters and who has served as a director of the Brooklyn Hebrew Home
and Hospital for the Aged, the Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum and Temple Shaari
Zeedek in Brooklyn passed away at his home in Palm Beach, FL.
1958: “Desire
Under the Elms” a cinema version of the novel by the same name with a script by
Irwin Shaw (Irwin Gilbert Shamforoff) and music by Elmer Bernstein was released
in the United States today.
1959(2nd
of Adar II, 5719): Eighty-four-year-old retired Bronx button manufacturer Hyman
Steiglitz, the husband of Lena Stieglitz with whom he had five children –
Samuel, Solomon, Louis, Hell and Ruth – passed away today.
1960(13th
of Adar, 5720): Parashat Tetzaveh; Shabbat Zachor; Erev Purim
1960: “Taffy
Pergament won the Novice Ladies singles title at the Middle Atlantic Figure
Skating Championships in Iceland.” (As reported by Bob Wechsler.)
http://s195.photobucket.com/user/TroyReunion/media/MaryLou/sc001638a1.jpg.html
1961(24th
of Adar, 5721): Sixty-seven-year-old “retired singing teacher” Mina Elman who
as a young woman had appeared on stage with brother violinist Mischa Elman and
who is survived by her sisters Liza and Esther passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1961/03/13/101450837.html?pageNumber=29
1963: Bob Dylan cancels “Ed Sullivan Show”
television appearance.
1964:
After premiering in London in January, “Summer Holiday” a musical with a score
by Stanley Black was released in the rest of the United States today.
1964: S[amuel] N[athaniel] Behrman’s “But for
Whom Charlie” premieres in New York.
1965:
Birthdate of American sports journalist, Steve Levy.
1966(20th
of Adar, 5726): Parashat Ki Tisa; Shabbat Parah
1966(20th
of Adar, 5726): Eighty-four-year-old William L. Prager, “the former head of the
Chemistry Department at CCNY” and who during WW II “was instrumental in
developing a synthetic substitute for quinine” the standard drug for fighting malaria
which the Japanese controlled passed a way today.
1967:
Naqi Jahan, the daughter of the first Miss India, Esther Victoria Abraham, was
chosen Miss India. (As reported by Dr. Navara Jaat Aafreedi)
1968:
Mauritius achieves independence from Great Britain. Mauritius is located in the
Indian Ocean. In 1940, the British created a prison there to hold Jews who had
escaped from Hitler’s Europe and were trying to enter Palestine. The
Jewish cemetery on the island attests to the cost of the British policy.
Since gaining its independence, Mauritius has sent many of its citizens to
Israel for professional training in several fields of study including that of
agronomy.
1969;
In New York City, Theodore S. “Ted” Tapper, “the president of South
Philadelphia Pediatrics and associate clinical professor of pediatrics at
Jefferson Medical College” the former Helen Anne Palmatier gave birth to CNN
newsman Jake Tapper who was raised in Philadelphia and “graduated Phi Beta
Kappa and magna cum laude with an A.B. in History, modified by Visual Studies,
in 1991.”
1969:
Four months after premiering in the UK, “Where Eagles Dare” a WW II espionage
film produced by Elliot Kastner was released in the United States today.
1969:
Linda Eastman married Beatle Paul McCartney (A marriage that fits with Purim
motif)
https://jwa.org/thisweek/mar/12/1969/this-week-in-history-linda-eastman-marries-paul-mccartney
1972(26th
of Adar, 5732): Eighty-four-year-old Louis Joel Mordell, the American born
British mathematician “for pioneering research in number theory” passed away
today.
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Mordell.html
1972:
“The Rabbinical Council of America” an Orthodox organization “appealed for
Congressional legislation that would ‘grant tax deductions to parents who pay
for their children in the all-day Jewish schools’ arguing that the hundreds of
day schools ‘educate a substantial portion of the American children’ and that
‘our public schools are ill-equipped to absorb the youngsters who are currently
in these schools.’”
1975:
Birthdate of Dan Greenbaum, the native of Torrance, CA who played on the 1992
U.S. Olympic
Volleyball
team that won a bronze medal.
1976(10th
of Adar II, 5736): Seventy-three-year-old Charley Phil Rosenberg, who was World
Bantamweight Champion from 1925 to 1927 passed away today.
1977(22nd
of Adar, 5737): Parashat Ki Tisa; Shabbat Parah
1977(22nd
of Adar, 5737” Eighty-year-old NYU trained attorney Bernard Trencher, “the
former chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the Bronx County Bar Association
and husband of “the former Bessie Gelula” with whom he had two daughters,
Lenore and Phyllis, passed away today.
1977:
Egypt’s Anwar Sadat pledged to regain Arab territory from Israel. Sadat
would reach his goal, but with the pen of the peace treaty not the sword
of war.
1979(13th
of Adar, 5739): Ta’anit Esther; erev Purim
1980:
“A Small Circle of Friends” directed by Rob Cohen was released in the United
States today.
1985(19th
of Adar, 5745): Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian born conductor, passed
away. Born in 1899, he came to United States in 1921. He was the
permanent conductor and music director for the Philadelphia Orchestra from 1938
until 1980.
1985:
B. Altman’s Fifth Avenue building was designated a New York City landmarkyoday
1987(11th
of Adar, 5747): Ta’anit Eshter
1987(11th
of Adar, 5747): Fifty-two-year-old Philadelphia born University of Pennsylvania
graduate Richard Levinson, who collaborated with William Link whose father was
of Jewish heritage on radio and television scripts as well as the scripts of
feature films The Hindenburg and Rollercoaster passed away today.
1987:
CBS broadcast the last episode of “The Wizard” starring David Stephen
Rappaport.
1990(15th
of Adar, 5750): Shushan Purim
1990(15th
of Adar, 5750: Sixty-nine-year-old businessman and sport’s team owner, Gene
Klein passed away today.
http://articles.latimes.com/1990-03-13/sports/sp-260_1_san-diego-chargers
1990 (15th of Adar, 5750): Rabbi Stuart E. Rosenberg,
a spiritual leader of Canada’s Jews and an author, died of cancer today in West
Palm Beach, Fla., where he had a winter home. He was 67 years old and also
lived in Toronto. For nine years, until he retired last August, Rabbi
Rosenberg led the Beth Torah synagogue in Toronto. Earlier, he was senior rabbi
for 17 years at BethTzedec in Toronto, the largest Conservative congregation in
Canada. Rabbi Rosenberg was one of the first Western religious leaders to focus
on the plight of Soviet Jews, traveling to Moscow in 1961 and writing a series
of newspaper articles on their problems. He was also a pioneer in
Christian-Jewish dialogue in Canada. He wrote 20 books, including ”Christians
and Jews: The Eternal Bond,” published in 1985, and a two-volume study, ”The
Jewish Community in Canada” (1971). His last book, ”Secrets of the Jews,” is
scheduled to appear in the fall. He also worked as an editor for the Encyclopedia
Judaica with responsibility for Canadian matters. Born in Manhattan, Rabbi
Rosenberg was a graduate of the Jewish Theological Seminary and received a
Ph.D. from Columbia University.
1993(19th
of Adar, 5753): Eighty-three-year-old Michael Kanin passed away. The brother of
Garson Kanin, he co-authored the Oscar winning script for “Woman of the Year”
and shared an Oscar nomination with his wife Kay Mitchell for the script of
“Teacher’s Pet.”
1993(19th
of Adar, 5753): Yehoshua Freidberg, a 24-year-old immigrant from Canada was
shot dead on the Tel Aviv to Jerusalem highway.
1997(3rd
of Adar II, 5757): Eighty-four-year-old Philadelphia born, University of
Pennsylvania graduate Bertram M. Gross, the English and philosophy student
turned advocated for full employment who was a driving force behind the
Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Act passed away today.
1998(14th
of Adar, 5758): Purim
1998:
Pope John Paul II wrote to Cardinal Edward Idris Cassidy:
On numerous
occasions during my Pontificate I have recalled with a sense of deep sorrow the
sufferings of the Jewish people during the Second World War. The crime which
has become known as the Shoah remains
an indelible stain on the history of the century that is coming to a close.
As we
prepare for the beginning of the Third Millennium of Christianity, the Church
is aware that the joy of a Jubilee is above all the joy that is based on the
forgiveness of sins and reconciliation with God and neighbour. Therefore she
encourages her sons and daughters to purify their hearts, through repentance of
past errors and infidelities. She calls them to place themselves humbly before
the Lord and examine themselves on the responsibility which they too have for
the evils of our time.
It is my fervent hope that the document: We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah, which the Commission for Religious
Relations with the Jews has prepared under your direction, will indeed help to
heal the wounds of past misunderstandings and injustices. May it enable memory
to play its necessary part in the process of shaping a future in which the
unspeakable iniquity of the Shoah will
never again be possible. May the Lord of history guide the efforts of Catholics
and Jews and all men and women of good will as they work together for a world
of true respect for the life and dignity of every human being, for all have
been created in the image and likeness of God.
1999:
The Times of London features a review
of From Catastrophe to Power: Holocaust survivors and the emergence of
Israel by Idith Zertal.
1999(24th
of Adar, 5759): Sir Yehudi Menuhin famed violinist passed away at the age of
82. Born in New York in 1916, Menuhin was raised in San
Francisco. He was a child prodigy who debuted at the age of eight.
2000: The
New York Times featured
reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or special interest to Jewish readers
including In America by Susan Sontag, How We Got Here. The 70’s: The
Decade That Brought You Modern Life (For Better or Worse) by David
Frum and The Nazis by Piotr Uklanski.
2000:
Pope John Paul II asked God’s forgiveness for the sins of Roman Catholics
through the ages, including wrongs inflicted on Jews, women and minorities.
What a difference in the events from 61 years before on this date.
2001:
The Israeli Army today sealed off Ramallah, the unofficial seat of government
of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, blocking roads with trenches,
mounds of earth and checkpoints backed by tanks and armored troop carriers.
2002:
“The United Nations secretary general, Kofi Annan, told Israel today that ”you
must end the illegal occupation” of Palestinian lands, as Israeli ground
forces and helicopter gunships killed 31 Palestinians in their fiercest assault
on the areas since Israel conquered them in 1967.”
2003:
At the Library of Congress opening of an exhibition entitled Herblock’s Gift:
Selections from the Herb Block Foundation Collection
2003:
In “A New Glasnost on War’s Looted Art,” published today Sophia Kishkovsky
describes the efforts of Russia’s Ministry of Culture to return thousands of
paintings, archives and rare books looted by Soviet forces in Germany and
Eastern Europe during and after World War II and taken to Russia as so-called
trophy art. Hitler’s forces had previously pillaged many of the works from
Jewish owners and other Nazi victims
2003(8th
of Adar II, 5763): Howard Fast passed away. Born in 1914, some of
the controversial authors more famous works include Spartacus, Citizen
Tom Paine and The Crossing. The Crossing was adapted
for a PBS mini-series depicting the battles surrounding Washington’s
Crossing the Delaware which were critical to the colonists ultimate victory
over the British.
https://spartacus-educational.com/USAfast.htm
https://www.notablebiographies.com/newsmakers2/2004-Di-Ko/Fast-Howard.html
2004:
After having premiered in Bangkok, “Spartan” directed and written by David
Mamet, co-produced by David Bergstein and featuring Moshe Igvy was released
today in the United States.
2005: “Roman
Allegories” a solo exhibition of the works of Eleanor Antin came to a close at
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts in New York, NY
2005:
“Love Counts,” an opera in two acts by Michael Nyman “premiered today at the
Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Germany.”
2006:
The New York Times featured reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including Lipshitz Six or Two Angry by T Cooper and the recently
released paperback edition of Rebels
on the Backlot: Six Maverick Directors and How They Conquered the Hollywood
Studio System by Sharon Waxman
2006:
A two-hour event – “Jewish Unity Live 2006” – is held at a hotel in
New Brunswick, New Jersey.
2007:
The Jerusalem Post reported that “the
first Israeli Druse physician to become a professor is Dr. Jamal Zidan, head of
the oncology department at Ziv Medical Center in Safed. He received his title
from the Medical Faculty of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa,
and he has worked at Ziv since 1979, when he was an intern.”
2007(22nd
of Adar, 5767): Eleven days after turning eighty-three Arnold Druckman who
gained fame as Arnold Drake “an American comic book writer and screenwriter
best known for co-creating the DC Comics characters Deadman and the Doom
Patrol, and the Marvel Comics characters the Guardians of the Galaxy, among
others” who was the brother of songwriters Ervin and Milton Drake passed away
today.
http://mysteryfile.com/blog/?p=130
https://www.comicsbeat.com/dcs-arnold-drake-obit/
2007:
In “Some Things You Never Forget” published today Theresa Vargas remembers the
“1977 siege by Hanafi Muslims” that gripped Washington, DC thirty years ago.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/11/AR2007031101562.html
2008:
In Washington, D.C., Joseph
Horowitz, a former New York Times
music critic and executive director of the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra,
discusses and signs Artists in
Exile: How Refugees from Twentieth-Century War and Revolution Transformed the
American Performing Arts.
2008: The New Republic featured reviews of The
Jewish King Lear: A Comedy in America by Jacob Gordin, translated by Ruth
Gay and Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia by Christopher
Clark in which the author attributes the rise of Prussia during the 17th
century to the “legendary religious tolerance of the Hohenzollerns” which
enabled them to strengthen the state’s economy by opening its borders to Jews.
The same magazine also profiled the Jews of Sefwi Wiawso a community of about
150 Ghanaians who claim to be descendants of the lost tribes of Israel.
2008:
“Masada, a musical group led by American saxophonist and composer John Zorn”
performed at Yoshi’s San Francisco jazz club
2008:
The Australian parliament commemorated Israel’s 60 years of independence as its
leaders pledged their commitment to the country’s security and stated their
“respect for the Israeli cause,” Australia’s The Age reported.
The motion was put forward by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and seconded by
Opposition leader Brendan Nelson.
2008:
Israel’s Holocaust memorial posthumously recognized a prominent Spanish
diplomat, who was the grandfather of the Oscar-nominated actress Helena Bonham
Carter, for his role in saving hundreds of Jews during World War II. Yad
Vashem named Eduardo Propper de Callejon a “Righteous Among the
Nations,” the highest honor granted to non-Jews who risked their lives to
save Jews during the Holocaust. More than 22,000 have been honored since the
designation was originated in 1963, including Oskar Schindler, whose efforts to
save more than 1,000 Jews was documented in the Oscar-winning film
“Schindler’s List,” and Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who is
credited for having saved at least 20,000 lives from Nazi death camps. Only
four Spaniards have been granted the award. About six million European Jews
were killed by German Nazis and their collaborators during World War II. As
German troops marched into France in the summer of 1940, Propper de Callejon,
then first secretary in the Spanish embassy in Paris, stamped and signed
passports for four days nearly nonstop to allow refugees to escape to Spain,
and from there to the relative safety of Portugal. Propper de Callejon, a
Franco loyalist, defied Spanish foreign ministry instructions not to issue such
visas. In 1941, he was demoted and never promoted to be an ambassador. He
retired in 1965 and died in 1972. The exact number of visas Propper de Callejon
issued remains unknown, but Yad Vashem Director Avner Shalev – who called
Propper de Callejon the “Spanish Raoul Wallenberg” – said it was
believed to be at least 1,500, both Jewish and non-Jewish. “He was signing
papers with both his hands. He signed so many that his hands hurt so much, my
mother had to bandage them at the end of the day,” said Elena Bonham
Carter, his daughter. “It was extraordinary. Bonham Carter attended
Wednesday’s ceremony at the memorial’s Garden of the Righteous along with her
brother, Felipe Propper de Callejon. “Today, justice has been done to my
father,” He said. Bonham Carter said her famous daughter wished she could
have been at the ceremony as well, but she is currently on location for the
latest film in the Harry Potter series – “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood
Prince.”
2009:
New York University’s Taub Center of Isreal Studies presents “Negotiating Peace
With Syria,” a public dialogue subtitled “Lessons from the Past, Promises
from the Future,” featuring Martin Indyk, former US Ambassador to Israel, and
Itamar Rabinovich, former Israeli Ambassador to the US.
2009:
The Westchester Film Festival opens with a screening of “The Gift of Stalin,”
the moving tale of a Jewish boy’s exile to the hinterlands of Kazakhstan in
1949 who is raised by the gruff Kasym, a Muslim, and Verka, a Christian.
2009: The disgraced financier Bernard L. Madoff was
immediately handcuffed and led off to jail today after a hearing in which he
pleaded guilty to running a vast Ponzi scheme that bilked investors out of
billions of dollars. Rather than letting Mr. Madoff remain free on bail and
return to his apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, Judge Denny Chin
of Federal District Court ordered Mr. Madoff remanded as he awaited sentencing.
2009:
The National Book Critics Circle awarded the autobiography prize to Ariel
Sabar’s “My Father’s Paradise,” which traces the author’s Jewish
roots in Kurdish Iraq. Sabar, who spoke of being an immigrant’s son in 1980s
Los Angeles, remembered growing up with a father who “looked funny,”
“talked funny” and “couldn’t get his clothes to match.” But
Sabar became deeply curious about his family’s history and was struck by Iraq’s
long history of people of different faiths “who pretty much got
along.”
2009(16th
of Adar. 5769): Ninety-one-year-old Lenore Cohn “Lee” Annenberg, the widow
Walter Annenberg, passed away. (As reported by Robert McFadden)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/13/us/13annenberg.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Lee+Annenberg&st=nyt
2010:
The Adas Israel Scholar-In-Residence Weekend is scheduled to begin with a Friday night service, dinner and a
presentation by Professor David Kraemer on “Sacrificial Judaism,
Vegetarianism, and the “Theology” of Food and Kashrut.”
2010: The
former mayor of Amsterdam, 62-year-old Marius Job Cohen became the new head of
the Dutch Labor party today after Wouter Bos, his predecessor, resigned. Cohen
reportedly could become Prime Minister after elections are held this June.
2011: Eighty-nine-year-old Tawfix Toubi, the last
surviving member of the First Knesset (1949) passed away today in Haifa.
An Arab Christian, he was a member of the Communist Party who served in the
Knesset until he retired in 1990.
2011: Today “a Blue Plaque was placed on the home of
Hungarian born Jewish inventor David Gestetner at 124 Highbury New Park in
north London.
2011: In Fairfax Station, VA, Jewish Rock Artists Rick
Recht and Sheldon Low are scheduled to perform at a special concert celebrating
Temple B’nai Shalom’s 25th anniversary.
2011: “Zion and his Brother” and “There Were Nights” are
scheduled to be shown at the 15th New York Sephardic Jewish Film
Festival.
2011: “Ajami,”
an Israeli film that had been nominated for an Oscar is scheduled to be shown
at Columbia Jewish Congregation’s (CJC) 2011 – Nineteenth Season of Movies
2011(6th
of Adar II): According to tradition today marks the anniversary of Moses
completion of the book of Deuteronomy, which took place on 6 Adar, 1273.
2011(6th
of Adar II): Ninety-five year old Yiddish actress Shira Lerer passed away today
in New York City .(As reported by Joseph Berger)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/arts/shifra-lerer-actress-in-yiddish-theater-dies-at-95.html
2011: Defense
Minister Ehud Barak vowed today that Israel would use every means possible to
track down those behind the fatal stabbing of a family of five in the West Bank
settlement of Itamar .
2011: In
“A Local Life: Al Ungerleider, 89; old soldier recalled nightmare mission,”
published today, Lauren Wiseman recounts the exploits of the Jewish general who
as a young lieutenant fought his from Normandy across Europe where he saw the
horror of Nordhausen.
2012: The East
Bay International Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to open in Oakland, CA
2012: The
Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington, The American Jewish
Committee, and The American Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists are
scheduled to sponsor a “brown bag lunch” featuring Art Spitzer, Legal Director
of the American Civil Liberties Union of the National Capital Area who will
provide a look at some of the civil liberties cases on the Supreme Court
Docket.
2012(18th
of Adar, 5772): Eighty-five-year-old “Mike Silverstein, a founder of Nina
Footwear” passed away today. (As reported by Daniel Slotnik)
2012(18th
of Adar, 5772): On the Hebrew calendar, the 211th anniversary of
David Emanuel being sworn in as Governor of the state of Georgia, making him
the first Jew to serve as the chief executive of any state government in the
United States.
2012:
Offensive tackle Geoff Schwartz signed a one-year contract with the Minnesota
Vikings.
2012:
Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip fired more than 40 rockets at Israel
today, as the heavy cross-border barrage continued into its fourth day.
2012:
Journalist turned politician Yair Lapid blamed the Palestinians for the failure
to reach a breakthrough in the peace process in a speech on Monday at Tel Aviv
University.
2013: The
Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present “Private Films, Public
Identities: Jewish Self-Representations in Hungarian and Polish Interwar Home Movies.”
2013: “The
Other Son” is scheduled to be shown at the Minneapolis Jewish Film Festival.
2013: Sameh
“SAZ” Zakout a native of Ramle is one of the Israeli musicians
scheduled to perform today at SXSW 2013
2013: In an
op-ed column entitled “An Endelible Stain on FDR’s Legacy” Richard Cohen wrote
“FDR supported programs that did. . . save 100,000 Jewish lives” while
“condemning President Roosevelt for not doing more to help Europe’s Jews escape
Hitler.”
2013(1st
of Nissan, 5773): Rosh Chodesh Nissan
2014: “A month
after canceling a trip to Israel because of floods at home, British Prime
Minister David Cameron is expected to address the Knesset today.” (As reported
by Spence Ho)
2014: The
Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host the Phoenix Chamber Ensemble in
a performance of Schubert’s Sonatina in D Major, Brahms’ Sonata No 2 in A Major
and Prokofiev’s Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op 80,
2014: The
Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present “Light and Shadows: The Story
of Iranian Jews.”
2014: In
Washington, DC, as part of “Voices of the Vigil, graphic designer Avrum Ashery
will showcase his unique role in creating posters, buttons, and cards of
protest for the movement.
2014: The
Washington Wizards basketball team is scheduled to host Jewish Heritage Night
& a Pre-Purim Celebration.
2014: In
Washington, the Jewish Study Center is scheduled to host the “Latke-Hamentashen
Debate.”
2014: Ruth
Goodman and Yossi Almani are scheduled to lead “Israeli Dancing” at the 92nd
Street Y.
2014: In
Metairie, LA, Rabbi Mendel Ceitin is scheduled to begin teaching at six week
course “To Be a Jew in the Free World: Jewish Identity Through the Lens of
Modern History.”
2014: Islamic
Jihad took credit for the barrage of rockets fired into Israel today. The terrorist claim they fired 90 missiles,
but the IDF puts the number at 60. (As reported by Adiv Sterman)
2014: IDF jets
hit 29 targets this evening in Gaza in response to the most massive rocket
barrage since 2012. In addition, IDF
tanks fired into Gaza eliminating at least two “terror targets.”(As reported by
Marissa Newman and Tova Dvorin)
2014(10th of
Adar II, 5774): Ninety-one-year-old David Sive, “founder of environmental law”
passed away today. (As reported by Margalit Fox)
2014:
Geoff “Schwartz signed a four-year, $16.8 million deal with $6.2 million
guaranteed with the New York Giants, after confirming the deal on Twitter.”
2014: “After
years of heated public debate and political wrangling, Israel’s Parliament on
today approved landmark legislation that will eventually eliminate exemptions
from compulsory military service for many of the ultra-Orthodox students
enrolled in seminaries.” (As reported by Isabel Kershner)
2015:
The Tulane University Jewish Studies Department under the leadership of Dr.
Brian Horowitz is scheduled to present “A Read and Discussion of ‘I Pity the
Poor Immigrant’” with Zachary Lazar.
2015:
The Illinois Holocaust Museum is scheduled to honor Renée and Lester Crown at
the 2015 Humanitarian Awards Dinner in Chicago.
2015:
“Zaytoun” directed by Eran Riklis is scheduled to be shown at the Jewish
Community of Northern Viriginia.
2015:
The Canadian Haggadah Canadienne is scheduled to go on sale today at
Montreal.
2015:
In Atlanta, the 2015 Molly Blank Jewish Concert Series is scheduled to present
“Kurt Weill: Berlin to Broadway.”
2015:
Unless the labor court in Jerusalem intervenes, Histadrut is scheduled to begin
a general strike that will hit cities and towns from Ashdod to Eilat.
2015:
The American Sepharidi Federation’s Film Festival is scheduled to open today.
2015:
In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, The National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library is
scheduled to present “Voices of the Generations: Stories from the Holocaust”
with Julie Kohner, whose mother Hanna was Holocaust survivor.
2015:
“Former president and Prime Minister Shimon Peres today threw his support
behind the Zionist Union’s Isaac Herzog for prime minister in the upcoming
March 17 elections.” (As reported by Marissa Newman)
2016(2nd
Adar II, 5776): Shabbat Pekuday; final Torah portion of Exodus
2016(2nd
of Adar II, 5776): Eighty-nine-year-old Elliot Gant, one of the creators of
that ultimate in preppy-wear, the Gant buttoned-down shirt with the loop in the
back passed away today.
2016:
The Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra is scheduled to celebrate its 78th
season by beginning a new tour under conductor Dmitry Yablonsky.
2016:
In Texas, “Remember” and “Serial Bad Weddings” are scheduled to shown at the
Houston Jewish Film Festival.
2016:
In North Carolina, “Once in a Lifetime” is scheduled to be shown at the
Charlotte Jewish Film Festival.
2016:
The Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia is scheduled to host a third
visit by the Richmond Ballet II.
2016:
After Palestinian terrorists fired rockets from Gaza yesterday, Israeli
aircraft “struck at Hamas military bases in the Gaza Strip.”
2016:
Philadelphia is scheduled to hold the opening event for the 20th
Annual Israeli Film Festival.
2017:
The New York Times featured reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including The Gestapo: The Myth and Reality of Hitler’s Secret Police by
Frank McDonough, Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me by Bill Hayes
and the recently released paperback edition of The Photographer’s Wife
by Susanne Joinson
2017:
“Keep Quiet” a film that tells the story of vocal anti-Semite Holocaust denier
Csanád Szegedi who discovers that he is Jewish, and his grandmother survived
Auschwitz is scheduled to be shown in Glasgow under the sponsorship of UKJF.
2017(14th of Adar, 5777): Purim
2017:
In responding to Congressman Steve King’s statement that “restoring Western
civilization could not be done with somebody else’s babies, Chelsea Clinton,
whose husband is Jewish said “Clearly the Congressman does not view all our
children as, well, all our children which is something particularly ironic and
painful to say on Purim.
2018:
This evening in Memphis, TN, Temple Israel is scheduled “to host the third
installment of MLK Moral Monday, the three-part clergy led servings and
gatherings featuring distinguished speakers on the pressing social just issue
of our times” that will music led by Abbie Strauss and readings by Rabbi Feivel
Strauss
2018: Today, Goldman Sachs “announced that
Harvey Schwartz, the company’s co-chief operating officer and president would
be resigning, leaving David Solomon as the second-in-command.”
2018:
Publication of Joel Meyerowtiz: Where I Find Myself: A Lifetime
Retrospective by Joel Meyerowitz.
2018:
UCLA issued a statement today saying that Gabriel PIterberg who had been
accused of sexual assault in 2013 “will no longer be teaching at the school.”
2018:
“Brave Miss World” is scheduled to be shown at the New York Sephardic Jewish
Film Festival.
2019:
Temple Emanu-El is scheduled to host an evening, Nikki Haley, the former US
ambassador to the United Nations and former Governor of South Carolina who is
often mentioned as a future candidate of the Presidency of the United States.
2019:
A-WA, a trio of Yeminite sisters Tagel, Liron and Tal Hayim is scheduled to
“perform a pre-Purim Yemenite Hafla concert in Tel Aviv today.
2019:
The Center for Jewish History, the Leo Baeck Institute and the Oxford
University Press are scheduled to host “First Person: Matti Friedman in
Conversation with Lucette Lagnado” where the author Spies of No Country: Secret
Lives at the Birth of Israel discusses his book with the author of The Man in
the White Sharkskin Suit.”
2019:
HIAS, the JCRC and ADL are scheduled to co-host “Seeking Asylum at Our
Borders,” a discussion of “what legal rights and protections are afforded
asylum seekers under US and international law, and what action steps you can
take to ensure we continue to grant asylum” at the Edlavitch Jewish Community
Center of Washington D.C
2019:
In the wake of reports that President Trump said, “he’d win 98% of vote if he
ran in Israeli elections”, his congressional ally Senator Lindsay Graham, after
visiting the Golan is committed to having the United States officially
“recognize” this territory “as belonging to Israel.”
2020:
The nature of Things, an artist book by Keren Anavy & Tal Frank that
celebrate eight years of artistic collaboration, will be displayed today on
Times Square Billboards, on the corner of 41st Street and 7th
Avenue.
2020:
In San Francisco, “Zohar Studios, the Lost Years” an “exhibit of 30 images
depicting Jewish life and the times by 19th-century Jewish immigrant
photographer Shimmel Zohar, whose studio was on the Lower East Side” is
scheduled to open at Contemporary Jewish Museum.
2020:
The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Center for Jewish
History, American Jewish Historical Society, and the American Sephardi
Federation are scheduled to host a discussion on “Midwives, Musicians,
Soldiers, Rabbis:Whose Stories Will We Tell?” which celebrates the release of
“Hunting Elephants.”
The
Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 6: Confronting
Modernity, 1750-1880, edited by Elisheva Carlebach.
2020:
The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host “Take Me Out,” the
society’s contribution to “the Jewish dating scene at Oxford.”
2020:
The East Bay International Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a
screening of
2020:
In Oakland, CA, A Great Good Place for Books is scheduled to host Antoinette
Constable as she talks about her new book, Natalie in the Shadow of the
Swastika.
2021:
Starting this evening, Kerem Shalom of Concord and Congregation Beth David of
Saratoga, California, are scheduled to host a special weekend of online Shabbat
rituals as they mark the one-year anniversary of the beginning of the COVID-19
pandemic.
2021:
The Riverway Project is scheduled to present online a “Virtual Riverway
Shabbat” complete with singing, quiet, moments for gratitude, healing and
remembrance.
2021:
In Columbus, OH, Tifereth Israel is scheduled to host “welcoming Shabbat
mindful practice’ where attendees “explore and experience two new meditation
techniques form a Jewish perspective.
2021:
Pianist Orli Shaham is scheduled to “join the Grand Rapids Symphony for a
live-streamed performance of Poulenc’s “Aubade.” The “choreographed
concerto” for piano and 18 instruments is a masterwork that was conceived in
the exciting musical whirlwind of late 1920s Paris. Photo credit: Aleks
Karjaka.
2021:
Starting today, the Sonoma County JCC is scheduled to present five new Israeli
films on demand over a 22-day period: “Asia” (drama), “Forgiveness” (comedy),
“Kiss Me Kosher” (comedy), “Here We Are” (drama) and “Mrs. G” (documentary in a
streaming mode that will last until April 22.
2021:
Chapter Two Films is scheduled to host “a special virtual Q and A with Daniel
Libeskind to celebrate the opening of Emmy Award winning director Slawomir
Grunberg’s new documentary “Still Life in Lodz.”
2021:
Congregation Shomrei Torah, Santa Rosa is scheduled to present Rachel
Havrelock, author of “River Jordan: The Mythology of a Dividing Line,” as she
addresses the water situation in Israel, its history, Israeli technologies and
environmental peacebuilding through watershed restoration.
2021:
Based on statements made yesterday by Health Ministry Director General Prof.
Hezi Levi as of today Israel will be leaving in place its mask mandate in
public spaces for the foreseeable future despite the success of the country’s
COVID-19 vaccination campaign and the consequent fall in coronavirus morbidity.
(As reported by Nina Fuchs)
2022:
The Eden Tamir Center is scheduled to host “The Glorious Sound of the Piano”
featuring pianist Benjamin Hochman.
2022:
The virtual East Bay International Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to
continue today.
2022:
Great Plains Shabbat Zachor Havdalh is scheduled to begin at 7p.m.
2022:
Parashat Vayikra; Shabbat Zachor
2023:
In San Francisco, in conversation with Contemporary Jewish Museum curator Maya
Benton, photographer Gillian Laub is scheduled to discuss her work, what it
means to be an artist in this moment of rising antisemitism and how we can
ensure a thriving future for Jewish voices and perspectives.
2023:
In Lafayette, CA, Temple Isaiah is scheduled to host the 16th annual Jewish
Family & Community Services East Bay gala benefit, featuring The Braid
theater company performing “True Colors,” a collection of humorous, poignant
stories about identity and belonging.
2023:
The ASF Institute of Jewish Experience, together with Kulanu and Genie Milgrom is
scheduled to present “Finding Judaism Across Africa and Central America.”
2023:
The Museum at Eldridge Street is scheduled to present “Music In the Sanctuary,”
a celebration of Women’s History Month with the Music of Alhambra.
2023:
All Jewish Theatre is scheduled to host an “in-person gathering in Washington,
D.C.” today.
2023:
Constitution, Law and Justice Committee Chairman MK Simcha Rothman has
scheduled hearings starting today on the legislation related to Judicial
Reform.
2023:
Live or on Zoom the YIVO Yiddish Club is schedule to present “The Yiddish
Forward with editor Rukhl Sheachter.
2023:
The Gerald W. Lynch Theatre at John Jay College is scheduled to host the 71st
Annual Israel Folk Dance Festival and Festival of the Arts.
2023:
The first session of the Lobel Teachers Colloquium sponsored by Tikvah is
scheduled to begin today.
2023:
The Jewish Museum Heritage is scheduled to collaborate with the PJ Library in
the Heart of New Jersey for a make-your-own Hamantaschen program.
2023:
As part of the 23rd annual Cleveland Jewish Book Festival is
scheduled to host Dan Grunfeld author of By the Grace of the Game: The
Holocaust, A Basketball Legacy and an Unprecedented American Dream at
Mandel JCC with basketball clinic.
2024:
Holocaust
Awareness Museum and Education Center (HAMEC), Philadelphia Film Society, and
Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History are schedule to host a screening
of “One Life” that tells the story of Nicholas Winton and finally give the man who
proved that one person can make a difference some of the recognition he so
richly deserves.
https://phillyjfm.org/event/one-life/
2024:
Observance of Equal Pay Day for which Rabbi Liz P.G. Hirsh has shared a d’va
haftarah for Equal Pay Day titled, “You Shall Not Defraud Your
Fellow,” affirming our sacred commitment to gender equality and economic
justice.”
2024:
The Jewish Book Council’s Paper Brigade is scheduled to host a presentation by “Scott
Nadelson who will discuss “Noble,” a tale about a man whose carefree life in a
shtetl is overturned when the tsar decrees that all Jews must adopt a last
name. What seems to be a perfunctory administrative matter ends up provoking a
meditation on legacy—and how one’s personal legacy can be erased by the broader
strokes of history.”
2024:
The Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History is scheduled to “Wild
Burning Rage And Song: Replies To Scottsboro” during which attendees can “Experience
voices of resilience as Yiddish and English poems from the Scottsboro era come
to life through stirring music in this world premiere concert.”
2024:
As part of the Women on the Move series, the Streiker Center is scheduled to
host a lecture by Lauren Grodesten, author of the novel We Must Not Think of
Ourselves.
2024:
The Museum at Eldridge Street is scheduled to present “Art History Through a
Jewish Lens: Frida Kahlo’s Artistic Tapestry” during which “art historian and
lecturer Ellaine Rosen will explore the artwork that made Frida Kahlo the
iconic feminist figure she is today.”
2024:
The Skirball Academy is scheduled to host the first session of “All Aboard:
Yiddish On A Cruise Ship To Israel,” “an imaginary journey to Israel by sea in
a beginner Yiddish course” taught by retired speech pathologist Naomi Miller.
2024: As March
12th begins in Israel, the Hamas held hostages begin
day 158 in captivity.
(Editor’s note: this situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so we
are just providing a snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time.)
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