This Day, March 19, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
March
19
235: End of
the reign of Severus Alexander, the 26th Emperor of the Roman Empire
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/1153-alexander-severus
1191: Eighty
Jews were burned at Bray, France for trying to execute a vassal who had killed
a Jew. The Jews were not a lynch-mob. They had the permission of the local
ruler which is more than one can say for those who killed the Jews.
1227: Election
of Pope Gregory IX “a prominent opponent of Judaism during his life, condemning
it as “containing every kind of vileness and blasphemy”. In the 1234
Decretals, he invested the doctrine of perpetua servitus iudaeorum – perpetual
servitude of the Jews – with the force of canonical law. According to this, the
followers of the Talmud would have to remain in a condition of political
servitude until Judgment Day. The doctrine then found its way into the doctrine
of servitus camerae imperialis, or servitude immediately subject to the
Emperor’s authority, promulgated by Frederick II. The Jews were thus suppressed
from having direct influence over the political process and the life of
Christian states into the 19th century with the rise of liberalism” (Dietmar
Preissler, Frühantisemitismus in der Freien Stadt Frankfurt und im
Großherzogtum Hessen (1810 bis 1860), p.30, Carl Winter Universitätsverlag,
Heidelberg 1989, ISBN 3-533-04129-8 (German).
1406:
Seventy-three-year-old Tunisian born “Arab historiographer and historian” Ibn
Khaldun who described the Jarawa or Jrāwa, a Berber Zenata tribal confederacy
that flourished in northwest Africa during the 7th century were Jews.
1497: In an
effort to prevent the Jews from fleeing Christian persecutions, King Emanuel,
secretly ordered the baptism of all children between the ages of four and
fourteen.
1590:
Birthdate of William Bradford who served as governor of Plymouth Colony for over
30 years. Bradford was typical of so many of his ilk who saw a connection with
their lives and what they called “The Old Testament.” Bradford studies the Hebrew language because,
as he put it, “Though I am growne aged, yet I have had a longing desire to see
with my owne eyes, something of that most ancient langue and holy tongue, in
which the Law, the oracles of God were write; in which God, and angels spake to
the holy patriarchs, of time; and what names were given to things, from the
creation…for my owne contente.” (William Bradford: Plymouth’s Faithful
Pilgrim by Gary D. Schmidt)
1604 Birthdate
of : King John IV of Portugal who was erroneously reported to have employed the
Jewish doctor Fernando Menes as his physician.
1640(24th of
Adar): Rabbi Chaim Algazi of Constantinople, author of Nesivot ha-Mishpat passed away today. A native of Ismir,
Turkey, Chaim Algazai served as the rabbi of Rhodes before returning to his
home town to serve as Chief Rabbi. B’nei Chayay, his commentary on
the Four Turim, was edited by Rabbi Araron Alfandri, his granddaughter’s
husband and the author of Yad Aaron (As
reported by Aryeh Kaplan)
1684:
Birthdate of Jean Astruc, the French Catholic doctor and descendant from a
medieval Jewish family “who wrote the first great treatise on syphilis and
venereal diseases” and one of the founders of “modern Pentateuch criticism” who
contended that Moses and the copyists created a book that was based on two
separate sets of documents – one that used Elhiom for the name of the divinity
and the other that used YHWH for the name of the divinity.
1721: The
Papacy of Clement XI, who issued a bull extending the rights of converts over
their Jewish families, ended today.
1722: Today
Meyer Low Schomberg was admitted a licentiate to the Royal College of
Physicians.
1740:
Birthdate of Esther de Leon, the daughter of Abraham de Leon who was 37 at the
time of her birth.
1764(15th
of Adar II, 5524): Shushan Purim
1772(14th of
Adar II, 5532): Purim
1772: “The
Royal College of Physicians admitted” Meyer Low Schomberg” as a licentiate”
today.
1783(15th
of Adar II, 5543): Shushan Purim
1791(13th
of Adar II, 5551): Shabbat Zachor; Erev Purim
1792: While
“at sea” Hannah Isaacks and Jacob Phillips who were married at Newport, RI in
1785 gave birth to Rebecca Phillips the wife of Isaiah Moses whom she married
at Charleston in 1807 and with whom she had twelve children.
1796(9th
of Adar II, 5556): Parashat Vaykira; Shabbat Zachor observed for the last time
during the Presidency of George Washington.
1800: Montague
Levoi married Catherine Chapman today at the Great Synagogue.
1802(15th
of Adar II,5562): Shushan Purim
1803 🙁 25th
of Adar): Rabbi Moses ben Abraham, author of Meliz Yosher passed away
today.
1804: Birthdate
of Dublin native Sir Alexander Schomberg, the son of Meyer Löw Schomberg a
German-Jewish doctor who settled in England, and who began his distinguished
naval career in 1743 after becoming an Anglican passed away today
1806: Jacob
Hirsch Kann, the son of Miriam and Isaac Jacob Kann and his wife Jetta Kann
gave birth to Theresie Wetheim, the wife of Bernhard Wertheimer
1807:
Birthdate of Louis Félicien Joseph Caignart de Saulcy the French archaeologist
who made several trips to Palestine and Syria from 1850 to 1869 where among
other things he “sketched the first map of Masada,” “identified Tell es-Sultan
as the site of ancient Jericho” and “conducted the first archaeological dig” at
“the Tombs of the Kings in Jerusalem.”
https://archive.org/details/narrativeajourn00saulgoog
1810(13th
of Adar II, 5570): Ta’anit Esther; erev Purim
1813: Today
German born Isaac Jacob Bamberger married his second wife Bella Jacobs who died
two years later at the age of twenty-two.
1817:
Birthdate of Bavaria native Fanny Heilbronner, the wife of Isaac Samuel whom
she married in Paris in 1840
1817: Aaron
Goldsmid married Sophia Salomons, the eldest daughter of Levy Salomons at the
Great Synagogue today.
1821: In
Devon, Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Netterville Burton and Martha Baker gave birth
to Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton one of those eccentric 19th
Englishman who dabbled in the military, exploration and writing. Among his many
works was The Jew The Gypsy and El Islam
http://www.burtoniana.org/books/1898-The%20Jew,%20The%20Gypsy%20and%20El%20Islam/index.htm
1822:
Seventy-four-year-old Johann Ludwig Ewald an advocate for Jewish emancipation
“who wrote two pamphlets in defense of the Jews” and who “argued that the Jews
were not worse than others, that their shortcomings were the result of
persecution, and that no one had a right to expect them to improve until they
had been given equal rights with other citizens” passed away in Carlsruhe.
1822: Boston,
Massachusetts, incorporated as a city. “The earliest mention of a Jew in
Massachusetts bears the date May 3, 1649, and there are references to Jews
among the inhabitants of Boston in 1695 and 1702; but they can be regarded only
as stragglers, as no settlers made their homes in Massachusetts until the
Revolutionary war drove the Jews from Newport. In 1777 Aaron Lopez and Jacob
Rivera, with fifty-nine others, went from Newport to Leicester, and established
themselves there; but this settlement did not survive the close of the war. A
number of Jews, including the Hays family, settled at Boston before 1800. Of
these Moses Michael Hays was the most important. In 1830 a number of Algerian
Jews went to Boston, but they soon disappeared. The history of the present
community begins with the year 1840, when the first congregation was
established.”
1823: Dr.
Daniel Levy Maduro Peixotto, “the eldest son of Moses Levy Maduro Peixotto” and
a graduate of Columbia College “married Rachel M. Seixas, the daughter of
Benjamin Seixas today.
1829: In
Altona, Germany, Doris and Rabbi Reuben Simon Cohn gave birth to Rabbi Moses
Jesaias Cohn the husband of both Hanna Cohn and Rosa Cohn.
1831:
Birthdate of Joshua Glaser, who gained fame as Julius Anton Glaser who
converted to Christianity and became a leading Austrian jurist “and liberal
politician.”
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F00B1FF9395B10738DDDA00A94DA415B8584F0D3
1832:
“Baltimorean Mendes I. Cohen,” who while on his six year tour of Europe and the
Middle East become “one of the first American citizens to visit to Palestine”
wrote a letter to his mother Judith while in Jerusalem.
http://jewishmuseummd.org/tag/mendes-i-cohen/
1832:
Birthdate of Hungarian Hermann Wamberger who gained famed Ármin Vámbéry whose
son Rusztem “briefly served as Hungary’s ambassador to the United States after
WW II.”
http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Vambery_Armin
http://tabriz-rugs-tabriz-carpets.com/History/Arminius_Vambery.htm
1839: A
“pogrom, known as the Allahdad, broke
out in the Iranian city of Mashhad. At the time of the pogrom, the city of
Mashhad was home to about 2,500 Jews. The event devastated the Jews of Mashhad,
who were violently forced into converting to Islam. The ruler of Mashhad
ordered the authorities to attack the Jews. A large mob went on to the Jewish
quarter and proceeded to burn down the synagogue, destroy Jewish homes and
businesses, abduct Jewish girls, kill about 40 Jews and injure many more. The
Jews had knives held to their throat and were forced to renounce Judaism and
accept Islam. While some of the Jews left Mashhad following the incident,
others stayed and would go on to lead a secret Jewish life. While adopting
Muslim customs in public, most would maintain Jewish tradition in the privacy
of their homes. There are no Jews left in Mashhad today. Most of the
descendants of Mashhad’s Jews live in Israel.”
1843: Three
days after she had passed away, 79-year-old Jane (Mordecai) Friedeberg, the
widow of Benjamin Friedeberg was buried today at the “Brady Street Jewish
Cemetery.”
1848(14th
of Adar II, 5608) Purim
1848: Founding
of the Hebrew Education Society of Philadelphia whose “Honorary Life Members”
included Moses A Dropsie, Isaace Rosskam, Mayer Sulzberger, Louis E. Levy and
Levi Mayer.
1848:
Birthdate of Wyatt Earp. Born in Monmouth, Illinois, this fabled lawman gained
fame as the Marshall of Deadwood, Dodge City and Tombstone, Arizona. Much of
Earp’s life was spent as a gambler, prospector and failed businessman. He was
not Jewish, but his third wife was. While living in Tombstone, Earp took up
with Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp, daughter of practicing Jewish family living
in San Francisco. Despite her claims that they married, no written record
existed. However, they remained together, if nothing else in common law
marriage until Earp’s death in 1929. Earp’s ashes were buried in the Marcus
Family Plot at Jewish Hills of Eternity Cemetery in Colma, California, south of
San Francisco. While Ms. Earp did not live among Jews for most of her adult
life, she too chose to rejoin her people in death and is buried alongside her
famous husband. For more about this interesting marriage, you can read I
Married Wyatt Earp, Mrs. Earp’s book about their life together.
1848: One day
after she had passed away, 42-year-old Mary (Emanuel) Drukker, the wife of
Simon Drukker was buried today at the “Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.”
1849: Joseph
Ansell Spier married Catherine Hyam today.
1853: Things
turned violent in Jerusalem today, Palm Sunday. Greeks and Armenians fought in
front of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher and 24 Protestant missionaries from
London scuffling with a group of Jews in the streets of the City of David.
1860: In
Milwaukee, WI, Hendrina Speelman Litt and Isaac Jonker Lit gave birth to
theatrical agent Jacob Isaac Litt, the husband of Ruth Litt whom he married in
1898 and the father of Willard and John Carpenter Litt.
1860: The
“Wealth, Power and Enterprise of the Hebrew People, as evidenced by the
Building of King Solomon’s Temple,” was the subject of a lecture delivered
this evening in Temple Hall by Rabbi Raphall.
1862: The New York Times
published a letter today in which took issue with that paper’s characterization
of Senator David Levy Yulee as being Jewish. “In your well-merited rebuke of
the traitor Yulee … you were led into an error which I am sure you will
correct, as it reflects unjustly upon the loyalty of a large religious body of
the community. You speak of Yulee, (the Ex-Senator) and Finegan (the
ex-contractor) as “Jew and Irishman,” thus placing the supposed
religious belief of Yulee in juxtaposition with the nationality of his
co-traitor. The facts are. Levy is an American, and foreswore the religion of
his father’s many years ago, married a Christian lady of wealth, was baptized a
Christian and had his name changed by the Legislature of his State to ‘Yulee’
thus adding to the many proofs, that a bad Jew will never make it good
Christian.”
1864: In
Jerusalem, “Yehoshua Yellin, one of the founders of the founders of the Nahalat
Shiv’a neighborhood in Jerusalem and his wife Serah, the daughter of Shlomo
Yehezkel Yehuda, an educator from Iraq” gave birth to David Yellin, the brother
of Shlomo Yellin, the husband of the former Ita Pines whose son Avinoam “was
murdered during the Arab Revolt” and whose Zionism found expression in his work
to advance the Hebrew Language as can be seen by his founding of “the first
Hebrew College for Teachers” and co-founding “the Hebrew Language Committee.”
1867: In
Detroit, members of Congregation Beth El gave the trustees of Tabernacle
Baptist Church $17,000 for their property which would be home to Beth El for
the next 36 years. D.J. Workum,
President of the congregation and Martin Butzel were leaders of in the
negotiations on behalf of Beth El.
1867: The
Ashkenazim of living in Palestine sought permission to slaughter their own
meat. The Ashkenazim appealed to the British to intervene on their behalf. In
the formal letter of request to the Consul, it stated that both the Muslims
(and the Sephardim) “understood that the Ashkenazim were not true
Israelites.” This concerned the Ashkenazim because they made money selling
certain cuts of meat to the Muslims, and if the Muslims did not consider them
Jews, they would not buy their meat.
1868: In
Butrimonys, Albert and Judith Valvrojenski gave birth to Senda Valvrojenski who
gained fame as Senda Berenson Abbot, a pioneer in the game of women’s
basketball. She was also the “sister of
the art historian Bernard Berenson and a great-great-aunt of the photographer
Berry Berenson and the actress and model Marisa Berenson.”
http://www.hoophall.com/hall-of-famers/tag/senda-berenson-abbott
1868:
Birthdate of Josef Schlussselberg, who in 1942 was transported from Prague to
Terezin where he was murdered at the age of seventy-four.
1872: In
Lithuania, David and Gittel Schubert gave birth to Fannie Shubert, a sister of
the famous “Shubert brothers” who was the wife of Isaac Isaacs and William H.
Weissager.
1873(20th
of Adar, 5633): Sixty-year-old economist Wilhelm Stahl who was elected to the
Frankfort Parliament in 1848 and became a professor at the University of
Giessen 3 years later passed away today.
http://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/tje/view.cgi?n=13960
1874(1st of
Nisan, 5634): Rosh Chodesh Nisan
1875: In New
York’s Part II of the Marine Court Chief Just Shea presided over breach of
contract brought by Jennie Jonas, a Polish Jewess against Victor Goldstein for
his failure to marry him. Jonas was represented by famed litigator Samuel
Hirsh. In the end, the jury found for the plaintiff and awarded her $75 in
damages.
1875: Baruch
and Fanny Rothschild gave birth to Hedwig Rothschild who became Hedwig Gutman
when she married Bernhard Gutmann
1876: Sam and
Sarah Nelken gave birth to their son William.
1877: It was
reported today that the Marquis de Compiegne, the famous French explorer had
died in the interior of Africa after having been mortally wounded during a duel
he fought “with a German Jews named Mayer.” The duel was brought on by a
dispute over geographic matters and insults to Mayer’s girlfriend.
1878(14th of
Adar II, 5638): Purim
1878: In
Mohileff, Russia, Tobias Weinshenker and Elka Markman gave birth to Esther T.
Weinshenker who came to the Unied States in 1886 where she organized the Clara
de Hirsch Society in Chicago and became the national chairman of the Ladies’
Organization of the Federation of American Zionists whose sixth and seventh
conventions she attended as a delegate.
1880: It was
reported today from Madrid, the Jews of Morocco are planning to honor the
United States Minister who interceded on their behalf so that they would be
protected by the Sultan.
1880:
According to a review of “Sunshine and Storm in the East” published today, Lady
Brassy reported that one of the difference between the Jews and Moslems of
Morocco was that the Moslem women “were muffed up to the eyes and waddled along
like animated bundles of dirty clothes” the Jewish women were “gorgeously
draped” and their faces were uncovered.
1880: In New
York the Board of Estimate and Apportionment allocated funds to be paid to
charities taking care of youngster committed to their care by the Police
magistrates including $1,691.43 for the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society.
1884: Birthdate
of Galicia native Sholom Joseph Perlmutter, the vice
president of the Hebrew Actors Union, co-founder of the Society of Jewish
Composers and the Jewish Playwrights League as well as a “historian of the
Jewish theatre” who wrote Jewish Dramatists and Jewish Composers http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/yt/lex/P/perlmutter-sholem.htm
1887: Seventy
four year old Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, the author of The Jew a romantic
novel in which, “the Jews are made to stand as a kind of buffer between the
Russians and the Poles and when the collision comes” between these two “it is
generally the Jews who suffer” passed away today.
1888:
Birthdate of Peretz Naftali, the native of Berlin who made Aliyah in 1933 and
served in Israel’s first Knesset
1888(7th of
Nisan, 5648): Forty-five year old Salomon Abendana Belmonte, the Hamburg born
attorney who was editor of the Hamburger Reform and sever as a member of the
Hamburg starting in 1877 passed away today.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/2843-belmonte-solomon-abendana
1889: In San
Francisco, Eva Korper Voorsanger and Rabbi Jacob Voorsanger gave birth to
University of Cincinnati graduate and HUC ordained Rabbi Elkan Cohen
Voorsanger, “the senior Jewish Chaplain with AEF in France during WW I” and
spiritual leader of Temple Shaare Emeth Israel who was the husband of the
former Henrietta Moscowitz and father of Esther, Alice and Edith Voorsanger.
1890: “Slaves
of the Sweater” published today summarized the arbitration hearings between the
striking members of the Shirtmakers’ Union and the contractors for whom they
work. The workers claim they work fourteen hours a day for as little a four
dollars a week. The contractors claimed
that the workers only labor from 7:30 am to 6 pm with half an hour for dinner
and that “a good female operative could make $9 a week and man $13.” The work used to be done by “German, American
and Irish girls” but they have been driven out by the Jews who are now on
strike. The manufacturers, most of whom
are Jewish, claim they know nothing about working conditions because they deal
only with the contractors.
1891: In New
York City, Aaron and Rosa (Roth) Stern gave birth NYU trained attorney Emanuel
A. Stern, the husband of Charlotte Taussig.
1891: It was
reported today that Solomon Goldstein and his three sons were among those
fortunate enough to have survived the fire at the tenement building at the
corner of Hester and Allen Streets but one of them, Abraham, was injured and
had to be taken to Gouvernor Hospitals.
1892: In
Leeds, UK, Ada and Maurice Raisman gave birth to Pembroke College, Oxford,
graduate Sir Abraham Jeremy Raisman, the Indian civil servant and banker.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/raisman-sir-abraham-jeremy
1892: Jose
S.K. Mizrachee, the Syrian born Jew charged with shooting Rabbi Mendes in New
York City, is being held at Police Headquarter and is scheduled to make his
first appearance in Part I of the Court of General Sessions this morning.
1893: An
altercation broke out in New Haven, CT today after carpenters came to work on a
house on Rose Street which was being converted to a synagogue. The current occupants of the house claimed
that the workers would disturb their Sabbath peace, this being Sunday and began
attacking the workers and the Jews who accompanied them.
1893:
Following regular services at Temple Emanu-El, Rabbi Silverman delivered a
lecture on “Popular Errors About Intermarriage” which is part of series of
lectures he is delivering “on popular errors concerning the Jews.”
1894: Mrs.
Charles Krumm took $20 out of the safe and saw her husband give it to Policman
Charles Levy $20 (in what was either a bribe or payoff)
1894:
Birthdate of Jiří (Georgo) Mordechai Langer
http://tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/186696/kafka-langer
1895:
Twenty-four-year-old Felix M. Warburg, the Hamburg born son of Moritz and
Charlotte Esther Oppenheim Warburg married Theresa Loeb Schiff today in New
York after which they had four sons – Frederick, Gerald, Paul and Edward – and
one daughter, Carola.
1896: “Polish
Jews Going to Cripple Creek” published today described the passage of 80
families, numbering 260 Polish Jewish immigrants who passed through Fort Worth
Texas on their way to Cripple Creek where they going to begin life as farmers.
1896: In
Albany, the State Board of Regents held its regular quarterly meeting during
which it granted an “unregistered provisional charter to the Hebrew Free
School” in Syracuse, NY.
1896: “The
auction sale of seats and boxes for the performance of ‘The Heart of Maryland’
for the benefit of the Hebrew Infant Asylum was held at the Herald Square
Theatre this afternoon.”
1897: It was
reported today that new wing of the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews which was
completed six weeks ago cost $75,000 and allows the institution to care for as
many as 300 people.
1897: The
ladies of the Sewing Society of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum hosted an afternoon of
entertainment for children at the facility on Amsterdam Avenue.
1897(15th
of Adar II, 5657): Shushan Purim
1897(15th
of Adar II, 5657): Seventy-one year old Ignaz “Ignatz” Grossman, the Hungarian
born rabbi and husband of Anna Rosenbaum Grossbaum who came to Brooklyn in 1873
to lead Congregation Beth Elohim and later Congregation B’nai Abraham passed
away today.
1897: Two days
after she had passed away, Elizabeth Levi, the daughter of John Fileman and
Mary Levy and the first wife of Henry Levi was buried today at the “Plashet
Jewish Cemetery
1897: It was
reported today that the Hebrew Education Society of Philadelphia had raised
$9,114 last year to support its programs that include weekly lectures by
Ephraim Lederer on the U.S. Constitution.
1897: Four
days after he had passed away, 82 year old James Sylvester was buried today at
the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1898: Benjamin
“Ben” Schlesinger the native of Lithuania who would become the
nine-time President of International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union became a
United States citizen in Chicago today.
1898: Three
Jewish children, Celia Bogin (11), Louis Begin (9) and Kate Bogin (4) whose
mother had died two weeks ago in Denver were taken to headquarters of the
United Hebrew Charities in New York by a cabman who found them on the street.
1899: Florence
Prag a teacher at Lowell High School in San Francisco married Julius Kahn, a
former Broadway actor, state legislator, and, at the time, a first-term U.S.
Representative from San Francisco. The couple had two sons, Julius, Jr., and
Conrad. She would later serve five terms in the U.S. House of Representative as
a Republican after succeeding her husband in office following his death.
1900: Herzl
has another meeting with Austrian Prime Minister Ernest von Koerber.
1901: In
Paris, Leo Mielziner, an artist and the son of a Rabbi and the former Ella
Friend gave birth to “American theatrical scenic and lighting designer” and
convert to Catholicism Joseph “Jo” Mielziner, the “brother of actor-director
Kenneth MacKenna.”
1901: Gladys
Helen Rachel Goldsmid and Louis Samuel Montagu, 2nd Baron Swaythling gave birth
to Captain (Hon) The Hon. Ewen Edward Samuel Montagu, RNR, the man who played a
key role in the creating the subterfuge that helped make the landings for
Operation Husky a success. After the war, Montague filled vital leadership
roles for the Jewish community in the United Kingdom.
1902: In
“Restricting Immigration” published today, the New York Times stated that it
“did not favor arbitrary exclusion” but also said, “the problems which so
sternly confront us today are serious enough, with being complicated and
aggravated by the addition of some millions of Hungarian, Bohemians, Poles,
south Italians and Russian Jews.”
1903: In Lviv,
Isaac Gruss, “a Talmudic scholar and a banker” and his wife gave birth to
American financier and philanthropist Joseph Saul Gross, the husband of
attorney Caroline Zelaznik, the father of Martin David Gross and Dr. Evelyn
Gruss Lipper and the father-in-law of producer Kenneth Lipper.
1904(3rd
of Nisan, 5664): Parashat Vayikra
1905(12th of
Adar II): Yiddish novelist Isaac Moses Bader, the husband of Helen Bader and
the father of playwright and journalist Gershon Bader passed away today.
1905: Governor
N.C. Blanchard and Charles F. Buck, Grand Master of the Masons were among those
delivering addresses of welcome at the opening of the meeting in New Orleans of
“The Constitution Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of B’nai B’rith.”
1905: In
Mannheim Luise Máthilde Wilhelmine (Hommel) and Albert Friedrich Speer gave
birth to “Hitler’s architect” Albert Speer the member of the Nazi inner circle
who beat the hangman by convincing people that he did not know about the fate
of the Jews.
1906: A brief
note had been received from French journalist Francis de Pressensé describing
the demise of the six year old French weekly
L’European which provided Europeans with, among other things, an accurate
account of events in Russia including “the Jewish massacres” and which included
the prediction that following the Russian defeat by the Japanese, “one does not
have be a prophet…to predict that it will be the Jews who will be called to
account” and that the “Russian dupes” will release “the fury of revenge on the
Jews.”
1906: “The
Beauty of Bath” a musical comedy produced by Charles Frohman opened at the
Aldwych Theatre.
1906: Cyrus L.
Sulzberger told a group of Jewish women meeting at the home of Mrs. Benjamin
Stern that “there a 700,000 Jews” living in this city but that only “only 4,000
contribute to Hebrew Charities”
1907: The
Council of Jewish Women sponsored a concert at Temple Beth-El where one hundred
and fifty members of the Musical Cantors’ Association of American filled the
sanctuary with “an impressive exhibition of traditional Hebrew music.”
1908: It was
reported today that Julia Richman, the Jewish and public school educator and
member of the New York Superintendent’s staff was one of the “most outspoken
advoctes of uniting the City and Normal College under one head.”
1909: The
Sultan ratifies election of the Hahambashi Haim Nahoum who had had an audience
with the Turkish ruler.
1910(8th
of Adar II, 5670): Parashat Vayikra; Shabbat Zachor
1910: “Am
Imposing Work of Reference” published today Joseph Jacobs provides a lengthy,
positive review of the Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics which contains
sections by Professor Morris Jastrow, Jr. the noted orientalist and Professor
Sylvain Levi, the leading expert on Sanskrit.
1911(19th
of Adar, 5671): Seventy-year-old Rabbi Immanuel Manchem Adler, the son of Rabbi
Joseph Gabriel Adler and the husband of Judith Adler passed away today in
Bavaria
1911:
International Women’s Day was marked for the first time, by over a million
people in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland. In the Austro-Hungarian
Empire alone, there were 300 demonstrations. In Vienna, women paraded on the
Ringstrasse and carried banners honoring the martyrs of the Paris Commune.
Women demanded that women be given the right to vote and to hold public office.
They also protested against employment sex discrimination.
1912:
Birthdate of New York native Joseph Walker, the Columbia trained attorney and
executive vice president. with S. Klein Department Stores.
https://forgotten-ny.com/2016/03/s-klein-stores/
1913(10th
of Adar II, 5673): Twenty-year-old Louis
Bachrach, the Decatur, GA, born son of Henry and Mathilda Hamburger Bachrach
passed away today while working at a “large department store” after which he
was buried at the Fairlawn Cemetery in Decatur, GA.
1913: Lucille
Lefurgey is scheduled to deliver a lecture this evening on “Hamlet” at the
Chicago Hebrew Institute.
1914:
Twenty-one-year-old Tulane University trained mechanical engineer Moses Walter
B Moses, the New Orleans born son of Elkin and Ida Moses and member of ZBT
married Josephine Harpman Noar today.
1914: In
Toronto, the Royal Ontario Museum, which is the home to The Dr. Fred Weinberg
and Joy Cherry Weinberg Judaica Collection opened to the public today.
1915: “The Jewish Weekly, edited by Herman
Bernstein published a statement by the famous Danish author, Georg Brandes”
describing the pogrom-like environment facing the Jews in Russian Poland.
1915: Reports
published today estimate that there are between 250,000 and 400,000 Jews
fighting in the Russian Army.
1915: As
attempts were being made to form a Jewish fighting force in the British Army,
Joseph Trumpeldor held a meeting of all the volunteers that was attended by
senior British military leaders including Major-General Alexander Godly during
which “they heard how it would be the first time in British history that
non-Britons or non-colonials were to be admitted as a unit into the British
forces. Patterson explained that the soldier who carries ammunition and
supplies to the trenches requires no less courage than the man who fires a
rifle and Godley declared that ‘Today the English People have entered into a
covenant with the Jewish People’ (As described by Martin Sugarman)
1915: The
Young Men’s Hebrew Army and Navy Association announced today that it has
obtained leave of absence for all Jewish sailors and soldiers attached to army
and navy posts in and around New York for three days during Passover. Fifteen
hundred sailors and soldiers will be able to celebrate the holiday with leaves
of absence effective March 29, 30 and 31.
1916(14th
of Adar II, 5676): Purim
1916(14th
of Adar II, 5676): In Chicago, Henrietta Baach, he wife of Sigmund Baach passed
away today.
1916:
Birthdate of novelist Irving Wallace. His first best seller was the Chapman
Report which caused a minor scandal for its time since it focused on a group of
that was conducting a survey of sex habits. Other novels included The Man about
the first African-American to become President and The Fan Club. Wallace passed
away in 1990.
1916: At the
Orpheum Theatre, the Jews of Baltimore responded to an appeal by Herman
Bernstein on behalf of the “war sufferers in Poland” with “a shower of gold,
banknotes and jewels” the proceeds of which will be turned over to the American
Jewish Relief Committee.
1916: In New
York City, the funeral for Rabbi Moses Guedalia was held followed by interment
at Mount Neboh Cemetery, Cyprus Hills.
1916: This
morning Rabbi Samuel Schulman, Felix M. Warburg, Judge Julian W. Mack and
Abraham Shiman addressed those attending a celebration at Temple Beth-El
marking the second anniversary of the founding of the Metropolitan League of
the Young Men’s Hebrew and Kindred Associations.
1916: “One
hundred and ten delegates from twenty cities in Pennsylvania met at the Arch
Street Theater” in Philadelphia today” and chose delegates to represent the
state at a conference to arrange for the “inaugural meeting of the American
Jewish Congress” which will be held later this summer.”
1917: The new
government ins Russia has accepted in principle reforms that will lead to
the re-enactment of the commercial treaty with the United States” which had not
been possible under the Romanov dynasty because of “the insistence of Russia in
applying to naturalized American Jews the same rules as to those Jews who are
Russian subjects.”
1917: It was
announced today that 8,000 tickets have been sold for a mass meeting in Madison
Square Garden where “for the first time in the history of” New York City
“thousands of Jewish refugees will assemble to cheer a Russian government.
1917: With
Associate Justice Louis Brandeis voting with the majority, the US Supreme Court
upheld the Adamson act which provided an 8-hour work day for railroad
employees.
1918:
Birthdate of Irving Schlossenberg, the native of Baltimore who was a
photographer for the Washington Post and served with distinction as a combat
photographer with the Marine Corps during five different Pacific landings.
1918: The
Jewish Welfare Board announced today “that Jewish families in the vicinity of
army cantonments would act as host to Jewish soldiers and sailors on March 27
and March 28 when most of them will have leaves of absence for Passover.”
1918: Wolffs
Telegraphisches Bureau, the semi-official voice of the German government sent
out an account of the discussion held in the Main Committee of the Reichstag
concerning the Lichnowsky memorandum written by the former German ambassador to
Great Britain which was denounced as indiscreet and treasonable. Wolffs was
founded by Bernhard Wolff, the son of a German Jewish banker. It was ironic
that the British and German press services were both founded by German Jews.
But Reuters, unlike Wolff, left his native home and his native religion.
1919(17th
of Adar II, 5679): On the Jewish calendar Yahrzeits of Rabbi Reuben Hoeshke of
Prague and Rabbi Gedaliah Lipshutz
1920: The
United States rejected the Treaty of Versailles for the second time. This
rejection helped paved the way for World War II and therefore for the
Holocaust. At one level, the rejection signaled a turn to Isolationism which
meant the United States would not do anything to curb the rise of fascism
during the 1930’s. Rejection of the treaty also meant that the United States
would not be joining the League of Nation which would render that international
body d.o.a.
1921(9th
of Adar, II 5681): Shabbat Zachor
1921: Dr.
Enlow is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “The New Meaning of Purim” at Temple
Emanu-El on Fifth Avenue.
1921: Milton
J. Forman, the Jewish born Chicago son of Mary Hoffman and Joseph Foreman was
promoted to the rank of Major General in the Illinois National Guard.
1921: Dr.
Krass is scheduled to Saturday morning services at Central Synagogue on
Lexington Avenue.
1922:
Birthdate of Camden, NJ native Herbert Harvey Pollack, the graduate of
Philadelphia’s Simon Gratz High and Temple University and NBA statistician who
created the “Harvey Pollack NBA Statistical Yearbook.”
1923: In Lodz,
Poland, Jewish socialists Josef and Golda Morgentaler gave birth to Henryk
Morgentaler who survived and gained fame as Canadian Doctor Henry Morgentaler.
1924(13th
of Adar II, 5684): Ta’anit Esther; erev Purim
1924:
Birthdate of Rabbi Arnold Jacob Wolf, a nationally prominent Reform rabbi known
for his progressive, sometimes provocative public stances, including opposition
to the Vietnam War, a speech at Yale accusing the University of a history of
anti-Semitism and early political support for his neighbor Barack Obama. His
mother was a social worker; his father, a tailor, died when Arnold was 7. For
several years, starting when he was about 10, Arnold acted in national radio
dramas broadcast from Chicago on the Mutual Broadcasting System. After
receiving an associate’s degree from the University of Chicago, Arnold Wolf
earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from the University of Cincinnati in
1945. He received his ordination from Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati in
1948 and later served as a Navy chaplain with United States occupation forces
in Japan. In choosing his vocation, Rabbi Wolf had been greatly influenced by
an uncle and a great-uncle, both Reform rabbis. (The great-uncle was the leader
of the KAM congregation, a precursor of KAM Isaiah Israel. Founded in 1847, KAM
took its name — an acronym for the Hebrew phrase “Kehilath Anshe Ma’arav,”
“Congregation of the People of the West” — in tribute to its frontier origins.)
In 1957, Rabbi Wolf became the first full-time rabbi of Congregation Solel, a
Reform synagogue in Chicago. Guest speakers there over the years included the
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Chicago Seven, the seven defendants
charged with inciting to riot and other offenses stemming from protests at the
1968 Democratic National Convention. In 1965, the rabbi marched in Alabama with
the civil rights leader John Lewis. Two years later, he led a group of
congregants to Washington to lobby against the Vietnam War. Starting in the
early 1960s, Congregation Solel conducted an annual weekend of Holocaust
remembrance, among the first synagogues in the country to do so. In 1973, Rabbi
Wolf helped found Breira, an organization of progressive American Jews that
advocated a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The
organization, whose name means “alternative” in Hebrew, was a target of
frequent, bitter public attacks by American Zionists. It disbanded in 1977.
Beginning in 1972, Rabbi Wolf spent eight years at Yale as a chaplain and the
director of the university’s chapter of the Hillel Foundation, the Jewish
student organization. In 1980, when he was preparing to leave Yale and return
to Chicago, he delivered a blistering Yom Kippur sermon in which he charged the
university with a “long and dishonorable history of anti-Semitism” and accused
its administration of “callousness” toward the needs of Jewish students and
faculty members. The sermon, and the university’s subsequent denial of Rabbi
Wolf’s accusations, attracted wide public attention. At his death in 2009 at
the age of 84, Rabbi Wolf was rabbi emeritus of KAM Isaiah Israel Congregation
in Chicago, where he had served as rabbi from 1980 until his retirement in
2000.
1925:
Sixty-five year old Hermann Volrath Hilprecht, the Assyriologist who was “in
charge of the University of Pennsylvania Babylonian expedition to Nippur which
provided a great deal of information about the civilization that produced
Abraham.
1926:
Birthdate of Jerold Rosenberg, who as Jerry Ross would gain fame as “an
American lyricist and composer whose works with Richard Adler for the musical
theater include The Pajama Game and Damn Yankees, winners of Tony Awards in
1955 and 1956 respectively in both the “Best Musical” and “Best
Composer and Lyricist.”
1926:
Birthdate of Avrom Isaacovitch, who as Avrom Isaacs became a leading Canadian
art dealer.
1926: The
Möller Organ Company of Hagerstown, MD signed a contract in which it “agreed to
build a three-manual organ with 64 registers” for Temple Israel of Washington
Heights.
1927(15th
of Adar II, 5687): Parashat Tzav; Shushan Purim
1927: Final
publication of “Jinglet” a comic strip created by Alvah Posen.
1927:
“According to Palestine correspondence printed” today “in the Jewish Day”
“nearly 271 years afer Baruch Spinoza…was excommunicated by the Jewish
community in Amsterdam, the ban was revoked when Dr. Joseph Klausner of the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem uttered the formula of release at a meeting of
the university faculty” in February.
1928: In
Epinal, France, two refugees from Poland, gave birth to Marceline
Loridan-Ivens, the survivor of Drancy and Auschwitz who make them the subject
of cinematic work. (As reported by Alissa J. Rubin)
1929: In
Kharkov, Lev Kramarevsky, “the head ballet master in Minsk” and ballerina
Ludmilla Melchemko gave birth to Andrei Kramerevsky, “a principal dancer at the
Bolshoi Ballet” and “a much admired teacher at the School of Ballet in New
York” who was the step-father of dance Alexander Tressor whose “parents decided
to join the mass emigration of Soviet Jews when the Soviet Union lifted bans on
emigration.”
1930:
Birthdate of Eugene Bleecher Selznick, the native of Los Angeles who was
captain of the United States men’s national volleyball team for 17 consecutive
years (1953–67 during which time he team won two Volleyball World Championships.
1930: The
former Lenore Lebach and Edmond Nathaniel Cahn the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar
Kahn, who were married yesterday by Rabbi Louis Binstock are scheduled to set
sail today from New Orleans for a Havana honeymoon after which the couple will
reside in New York.
1930: Harry
Warner and his wife the former Rea Levinson “became the legal guardian of
Lita”, the daughter of his late brother Sam “through a $300,000 settlement in
Lita’s trust fund.”
1931: It was
reported today that the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury has announced that
“no modifications will be made in the regulations pertaining to the
distribution of sacramental wine” which means that the rabbis who had met with
to seek some changes in the restrictions had failed in their mission.
1932(11th
of Adar II, 5692): Shabbat Zachor
1932: “Blind
boys and girls were the actors in three short plays, produced under the
auspices of the Community Workers’ Auxiliary of the New York guild for the
Jewish Blind” tonight at the Theresa Kaufmann Auditorium of the Y.M.H.A
1933: In
Newark, NJ, Herman Roth, a frustrated life insurance agent and “the former Bess
Frankel” gave birth to award winning novelist Philip Milton Roth, author of Portnoy’s
Complaint. His writings can be loaded with sex, guilt, humor and plenty of
pathos. Two of his more famous novels were Portnoy’s Complaint and Goodbye
Columbus. He won the National Book Award for Goodbye Columbus in 1955 and
Sabbath’s Theatre in 1995. As somebody once, Roth is funny until you realize
that Portnoy and you have the same mother. (As reported by Charles McGrath)
1933(21st of
Adar, 5693): Phillip Jaffe, the father of Hyman Jaffe and Pulitzer Prize
winning editor Louis Jaffe passed away today.
1933: Estee
Lauder gave birth to her son Leonard who became Chairman Emeritus of The Estée
Lauder Companies Inc.
1933: The
state of Nevada legalized gambling. One of the results of this would be Bugsy
Siegel’s building of the Flamingo which led to the creation of Las Vegas, the
gaming capital of the United States.
1934: The New York Times features
John Chamberlain’s excellently written review of “The Oppermanns by Lion
Feuchtwanger. He describes the text as being “that rare thing, a novel…that is
both good propaganda and first-rate dramatic writing.” The novel paints a
picture of a well-to-do German Jewish family confronting the rise of Hitler. In
his concluding lines, Chamberlain writes, “You won’t discover the reasons for
Hitler in the Oppermanns, but you will discover Nazism’s ghoulish incidence in
the wreckage of many human lives and hopes.”
1935(14th
of Adar II, 5695): Purim
1935:
Birthdate of actress of Phyllis Newman
1936: Hitler
placed an American citizen, Fritz Julius Kuhn, as the head of the Nazi
organization that became known as party the German American Bund.
1936: In
Warsaw, “a government amendment to the proposed bill on ritual slaughtering
permitting this method of killing for the consumption of members of religious
denominations requiring was approved the Sjem Committee on Adminstration.”
1936: “A group
of 115 Jewish exiles from Germany, the second large group to reach” the United
States as quota immigrants with the last two weeks arrived” today on the United
States liner Manhattan.
1936:
Approximately 5,300 children from the Jewish religious schools in New York are
scheduled to attend a pageant portraying “historical episodes illustrating the
evolution of the tradition of Jewish charity from Old Testament times to the
present” at the Roxy Theatre sponsored by “the young men’s and women’s division
of the federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies and the
Jewish Education Association.”
1937: The Jerusalem Post reported
on widespread violence and that a curfew was imposed in Jerusalem. Four Arab
building workers were injured when an Arab, who was caught later by police,
threw a bomb at them on their construction site in the Mea She’arim quarter.
There were many other shooting and stabbing incidents. The Arab Higher
Committee issued a statement calling for calm in a period in which
“enemies of the nation were striving to incite Arabs by
provocations.”
1937: After
spending six weeks in the United States where he worked to help the Palestine
Appeal “raise $4,500,000 for the settlement of Jews of Poland, German and other
lands” it was reported today that Eliezer Kaplan, the treasurer of the Jewish
Agency for Palestine has set sail on the Normandie on the first league of his
return trip to Jerusalem.
1938(16th
of Adar II, 5698): Parashat Tzav
1938(16th
of Adar II, 5698): Sixty-one-year-old A. Ray Katz, the Baltimore, MD born son
Henrietta and the husband of Ethel Epstein with whom he had three children who
was a member of Oheb Shalom Congregation, vice president of the American
General Corporation “and the first president of the Associated Jewish
Charities” passed away today in Rio de Jemerrio.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1938/03/20/96807186.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1938: In his
sermon today Temple Rodeph Sholom, Rabbi Louis I. Newman said President
Roosevelt “should voice his disapproval of the oppression of monitories and
summon freemen throughout the the world to hold together for the preservation
of civil rights.”
1938: Rabbi
William Margolis the “spiritual leader of the United Jewish Community in Ottawa
delivered a sermon at the Jewish Center of New York in which he said, “America,
paragon of democracy must in the current human crisis take the lead and set the
example for other civilized nations.”
1938: Rabbi
Joseph H. Lookstein delivered a sermon at Congregation Kehilath Jeshrun warned
of the danger that Russia was the only nation calling for “a world conference
against dictatorships’ and called on the United States to take the lead in the
endeavor.
1939: Dr.
Armin a Holzer of Seattle, the founder of the Palestine Prayer Fellowship is
scheduled to deliver a speech on “The Resurrection of Biblical Ant-Semitism and
the Solution of the Jewish Problem” at a rally at the Hotel Sharon in New York.
1939: “Signs
forbidding Jews to enter plastered man restaurant and shop doors” as
celebrations took place today in Nazi controlled Danzig marking the German
conquest of Czechoslovakia.
1939:
Birthdate of Judy Rae Glassman, the native of Cambridge, MA, who gained fame as
Judith Daniel, the founding editor-in-chief of Savvy magazine.
1940: In what
must have seemed to have been a miraculous rescue, Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn,
the 6th Lubavitcher Rebbe arrives in New York. The Friediker Rebbe was a man of
great physical and spiritual courage. He battled the Bolsheviks on their home
ground and then stayed with his Chassidim when the Nazis invaded Poland. When
he arrived in the United States, he immediately opened the first Lubavitch
Yeshiva in the United States despite warnings that he would fail because
America was so different from Europe. The Rebbe preserved against great odds.
The small community that he had the fortitude to start in Crown Heights became
the Chabad Lubavitch movement that today circles the globe.
1940: Vladimir
Jabotinsky addressed a crowd of more than 5,000 supporters in New York
demanding the “restoration of a Jewish state” in the area under British
Mandate.
1941(20th of Adar,
5701): Rafal Krzepicki, aged 34, was shot dead by a sentry at the Lodz ghetto
1942 Former
Notre Dame, University of Wisconsin and NFL quarterback Robert Sherman “Bob”
Halperin, the Chicago born son of Jewish immigrants Aaron and Julia Halpern,
enlisted in the United States Navy where he rose to the rank of Lt. Commander
and served as a member of the Navy Scouts and Raiders” whose job was “to mark
beaches for the assault, infantry, a daring, intricate job, calling for as much
brain as courage, and barrels of both.”
1942: “Levine
Asks for Tine Payment” published in the Los
Angeles Times described Charles Levine’s last brush with the law.
http://www.jewishmag.com/123mag/jewish-aviators/jewish-aviators.htm
1943: Haj Amin
al-Husseini, the exiled Mufti of Jerusalem broadcast from Rome to the “Arab
World.” It was the birthday of the Prophet and Haj Amin used the occasion to
try to stir up anti-Jewish hatred. His speech included the reading of a pledge
from German Foreign Minister Jachim von Ribbentropt that “the obliteration of
what is called the Jewish National Home was a basic tenet of German policy.”
1943: Dimitar
Peshev, who would be honored as a “Righteous Among the Nations” introduced a
parliamentary resolution to halt the deportation of the Jews.
1944: Martha
Nierenberg and her entire family go into hiding with a friend in Budapest when
the Nazis invaded her native Hungary.
1944: During
World War II, the Wehrmacht occupies Hungary. Hungary had been a willing ally
of the Germans. By 1944, the Hungarians saw the signs of impending defeat and
attempted to surrender. The Nazis realized what was happening, occupied the
country and made sure that a sympathetic Hungarian government stayed in power.
This shift marked the beginning of the end of the Hungarian Jewish community.
Thanks to the Hungarian government, the Jews of Hungary had been spared the
Final Solution. Now Eichmann and his henchmen were on their way and “The Night”
would become reality.
1944: The
Germans arrested 200 Hungarian Jewish doctors and lawyers. This was Germany’s
first independent action in that Country. The Gestapo then set up activities in
hundreds of Hungarian towns. They threatened thousands of prosperous Jews with
death if they did not pay “a homage” of valuable belongings and money to the
Gestapo.
1945: Mrs. Z.
H. Rubinstein President of the Brooklyn chapter of Hadassah announced today
that the group had met its goal of raising $200,000 which will be used to fund
five projects underway in Palestine.
1945: As World
War II was coming to an end “Adolf Hitler issues his “Nero Decree”
ordering all industries, military installations, shops, transportation
facilities and communications facilities in Germany to be destroyed.”
1946(16th
of Adar II, 5706): Sixty-three-year-old Rabbi Boruch Sholom Trainin, the
Latvian born former head of Congregation Tifereth Jerusalem in Manhattan and
husband of Helene Trainin with whom he had three children – Benjamin, Isaac and
Sonia – passed way this afternoon “after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage while
delivering a lecturing a lecture on the Talmud…”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1946/03/21/121622671.html?pageNumber=25
1946:
Economist Elisha Friedman writes to Winston Churchill telling him how deeply he
had been moved to hear the British leader refer to himself as a Zionist.
1947(27th
of Adar, 5707): Seventy-nine-year-old Abraham L. Saltzstein, who in 1884 came
from his native Poland to the United States, finally settling in Milwaukee
where he became a “general agent for the New Mutual Life Insurance Company of
Wisconsin” passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1947/03/22/87514642.pdf
1947: At a
meeting of editors held in Tel Aviv today, journalists discussed the warnings
of terrorist groups not to publish an offer of a reward by police that was
designed to lead to the capture of 18 wanted terrorists. Names on the list
include Menachem Begin head of the Irgun and Nathan Friedman head of the Stern
Gang. In a letter delivered to 12 Jewish newspapers, the terrorists said that
publication would be treated as collaboration and dealt with accordingly.
Because they were afraid for the safety of their staffs, the editors agreed no
to voluntary publish the list but said they would have no choice but to comply
under the law if requested to do so by the government.
1948(8th
of Adar II, 5708): Eighty-nine year old Helen Goldmark Adler, the widow and
“helpmate” of Dr. Felix Adler whose “book An Outline for Child Study,
Intelligently Directed Observation for Mothers was one of the first manuals
of its kind” and who was the mother of Waldo, Laurence, Eleanor and Margaret
Adler passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1948/03/21/96588695.pdf
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/adler-helen-goldmark
1948: U.S.
Ambassador to the United Nations Warren Austin told the Security Council “that
the United States no longer viewed the partition plan as viable.” (The only problem was that nobody had told
President Truman who would express his anger over what he considered an end-run
around the White House by the State Department.
1948: “British
military authorities urgently strengthened patrols late tonight as both Arabs
and Jews agreed that the United States proposal to abandon partition would
bring a blood bath to the Holy Land.”
1949: Today “a
new hitch in the Israeli-Lebanese armistice talks… has caused a postponement of
the signing: which was supposed to have been signed tomorrow at Ran En Naqura
1949(18th
of Adar, 5709): Parashat Ki Tisa; Shabbat Parah
1949: At
Temple Rodeph Sholom, Rabbi Louis I. Newman gave a sermon in which he said,
“Together we must devise ways and means to save” the President’s “program for a
successful implementing of the economic pledges which have been made to the
people.”
1949: At the
West Side Institutional Synagogue, Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein congratulated Dr.
Ralph Bunche for “his courage in declaring Great Britain’s’ decision to send
troops to the Transjordan port of Aqaba a violation of the Security Council’s
resolution.
1950: Leah and
Yitzhak Rabin gave birth to Israeli attorney and MK Dalia Rabin-Pelossof
1951: Herman
Wouk’s Caine Mutiny was published. The popular Jewish author has two
great loves – the U.S. Navy and Judaism. This affection shows in his literary
efforts.
1952:
Birthdate of disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, co-founder of Miramax
1952: The
Jewish Agency announced that Jews emigrating from East European countries would
be admitted to the country without any restrictions imposed by the new,
selective immigration policy.
1954(14th
of Adar II, 5714): Purim
1954: The Jewish Chronicle reported on plans
for an exhibition entitled “Manchester and Israel – a city’s contribution to
the birth a State” which coincided with the 50th anniversary of Chaim
Weizmann’s arrival in the English industrial city.
1954:
Birthdate of Jill Abramson, the first woman to serve as executive editor of The New York Times.
1955(25th
of Adar, 5715): Shabbat HaChodesh
1955: “Lester
Glucksman and Monroe Newman won the master pair bridge championship tonight at
the McAlpin Hotel.
1955: U.S.
premiere of “Blackboard Jungle” a movie that gave suburban America one of its
first cinematic looks at inner city schools directed by Richard Brooks who also
wrote the script, produced by Pandro S. Berman and featuring the film debut of
Vic Morrow.
1957: Producer
David O. Selznick sent a memo to John Huston expressing his concerns with the
filming of “A Farewell To Arms” – concerns that would lead to Huston resigning
and being replaced by Charles Vidor. (Vidor and Selznick were Jewish. Huston was not. But this had nothing to do with the dispute)
1959: “First
Impressions, a musical with music and lyrics by George Weiss and Bo Goldman and
a book by Abe Burrows, who also directed the musical” opened on Broadway at the
Alvin Theatre.
1960: After
452 performances the curtain came down on the original Broadway production of
“Redhead,” a musical with music by Albert Hauge, lyrics by Dorothy Fields, who
along with Herbert Fields and Sidney Sheldon also wrote the book.
1959: “Shaggy
Dog,” a Disney comedy based on a novel by Felix Salten, featuring Jack
Albertson and featuring an opening narrative by Paul Frees was released today
in the United States.
1960(20th
of Adar, 5720): Shabbat Parah
1960(20th
of Adar, 5720): Seventy-one year old Russian-born American screenwriter Sonya
Levien passed away today.
https://wfpp.cdrs.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-sonya-levien/
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/levien-sonya
1961: In
Bernese Oberland, Switzerland, “Clair (née Sims), a concert pianist, and
Leonard Friedman, a violinist for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra” gave birth
to three time Olivier Award winning actress Maria Friedman.
1962(13th
of Adar II, 5722): Fast of Esther.
1962: Bob
Dylan’s self-titled debut album was released. The five time Grammy winner was
born Robert Zimmerman.
1962: Funeral
services were held to in New York for “Rabbi Clifton H. Levy, the oldest past
president of the New York Board of Rabbis.” (As reported by JTA)
1962: The
Broadway production of “All American,” “a musical with a book by Mel Brooks and
music by Charles Strouse opened at the Winter Garden Theatre.
1964: U.S.
premiere of “The World of Henry Orient” co-starring Peter Sellers and Tom
Bosley, with music by Elmer Bernstein and filmed by cinematographer Boris
Kaufman.
1965(15th
of Adar II, 5725): Shushan Purim
1965: Two days
before the Selma march was scheduled to begin, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
received a telegram from Reverend Martin Luther King, inviting him to join the
marchers in Selma, Alabama who are seeking the right to vote for all Americans
regardless of race, religion or creed. Heschel will go, “praying with his
feet.” These demonstrations will help Lyndon Johnson to secure passage of the
Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the most sweeping and far-reaching pieces of
legislation passed in the history of the United States.
1967: It was
reported today that Lester Avent, chairman and president of Avnet,
Incorporated, the electronic components firm started by Charles Avent “a
33-year-old Russian Jewish immigrant, has announced that election of new
financial vice-president.
1968: CBS
broadcast the last episode of “Good Morning World,” a sitcom whose creators
included Carl Reiner and Sheldon with some of the episodes written by James L.
Brooks and Saul Turtletaub and co-starring Goldie Hawn.
1969:
One day after he had passed away funeral services are scheduled to be held in
NYC for seventy-two-year Harvard alum and Navy Veteran from WW I and WW II
Kassel Lewis, the founder of Crown Fabrics and husband of “the former Syliva
Surut who is the director the YMHA/YWHA nursery” with whom he raised a daughter
and a son – Anthony Lewis of the New York
Times
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/03/19/90071781.pdf
1970(11th of
Adar II, 5730): Ta’anit Esther
1970(11th
of Adar II, 5730): Sixty-four year old motion picture attorney Isadore H.
Prinzmetal, the son of Harry and Anna Stein Prinzmetal and the brother of Myron
Prinzmetal who “was a founding member of the Center for the Study of Democratic
Institutions in Santa Barbara and had served on the Citizens” and “the national
vice president of the American Jewish Council as well as the President of the
Los Angeles Hillel Council passed away today.
1970: Writer
and activist Grace Paley was among 182 people arrested in New York City for
protesting the Vietnam War draft
1970: In
Canada, Bora Laskin began serving as Pusine Justice of the Supreme Court.
1973(15th
of Adar II, 5733): Shusahn Purim
1975: U.S.
premiere of “The Yakuza” directed and produced by Sydney Pollack, featuring
Herb Edelman
1976(17th
of Adar II, 5736): Seventy-five year old Harvard and Oxford education David
Wainhouse, “international lawyer, author and Deputy Assistant of State” who was
the husband of the former Katherine Cohen” passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1976/03/21/archives/david-wainhouse-a-lawyer-diplomat.html
1977:
“Side by Side by Sondheim” closes in New York City after 390
performances
1978: UN
Security Council Resolutions adopted resolutions 425 and 426. They called upon
Israel to immediately cease its military action and withdraw its forces from
all Lebanese territory while establishing the United Nations Interim Force in
Lebanon (UNIFIL). Like so many UN resolution, this one failed to address the
reasons that forced the Israelis to take action in the first place.
1980: It was
reported that customers of the Arthur Murray dance schools, which were founded
by “Moses Teichman, a Galician born Jew” have won the right to back out of
contracts that can run into thousand of dollars.”
1981(13th
of Adar II, 5741): T’anit Esther and erev Purim occur for the first time during
the Presidency of Ronald Regan.
1983: In
German, TN, at Temple Israel, Rabbi Harry Danziger officiated at the Miriam
Gerber and Dr. David Bertram Kaplan.
https://www.nytimes.com/1983/03/20/style/miriam-gerber-marries-dr-bertram-david-kaplan.html
1984(15th
of Adar II, 5744): Shushan Purim
1984(15th
of Adar II, 5744: Fifty-six year-old “street photographer” the Bronx born son
Jewish immigrants Bertha and Abraham Winogrand passed away today at Tijuana,
Mexico.
https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/garry-winogrand?all/all/all/all/0
https://www.moma.org/artists/6399
1985(26th of
Adar, 5745): Eighty-seven year old Dr. Philip Reichert, M.D, who had married
Helen Reichert in 1939, passed away.
https://www.nytimes.com/1985/03/23/nyregion/dr-aaron-feder-dies-internist-and-professor.html
1985(26th
of Adar, 5745): Sixty-nine year old NYU Alum and University of Maryland Medical
School trained physician Aaron Feder the internist and Cornell Medical School
professor who was the husband of “the former of Beatrice Wallance” with whom he
raised two daughters – Carol and Jane – passed away today.
1986: Jack
Mathieu Émile Lang completed his first term as Culture Minister of France.
1987(18th of
Adar, 5747): Arch Oboler, “an American playwright, screenwriter, novelist,
producer and director who was active in radio, films, theater and television,
passed away. He generated much attention with his radio scripts, particularly
the horror series Lights Out, and his work in radio remains the outstanding
period of his career. Praised as one of broadcasting’s top talents, he is
regarded today as a key innovator of radio drama. Radio historian John Dunning
wrote, “Few people were ambivalent when it came to Arch Oboler. He was one
of those intense personalities who are liked and disliked with equal
fire.” A native of Chicago, Oboler was the son of Leon Oboler and Clara
Oboler, Jewish immigrants from Riga, Latvia.”
1988: Rabbi
Earl S. Starr officiated at the marriage of Lea Anne Schoenfeld and Randall
Joseph Ottinger this evening at the Mission Hills Country Club in Palm Springs,
CA.
1989: “Marvin
Hamlisch to Marry Ms. Blair, Producer in May” published today reported on the
plans of independent television producer Terre Blair the daughter of Marie and
Dr. William B. Blair to marry Oscar winning composer Marvin Hamlisch, “the son
of the late Mr. and Mrs. Max Hamlisch of New York” to wed in two months.
1993: Arnold
Resnicoff “delivered the prayer for the commissioning of the first of a series
of new Israeli missile boats (Sa’ar 5), jointly built by the U.S. and Israel,
in Ingalls Shipyard, Pascagoula, Mississippi.”
1997: In
today’s issue of the “Manhattan based weekly,” The New York Observer, Rhodes
Scholar and investigative reporter Katherine Eban Finkelstein wrote about what
JTA described as the “furor…over the use of pigskin in the treatment of
Orthodox Jewish children with serious burns in New York’s pre- eminent
pediatric burn center.”
1998: As
Ronald Perelman worked to finalize his purchase of Sunbeam a press release was
issued that Sunbeam would not meet sales expectations.
2000: The New York Times featured
reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or special interest to Jewish readers
including recently released paperback editions of Max Frankel’s “The Times
of My Life: And My Life With The Times” and Thane Rosenbaum’s “Second
Hand Smoke”, a “novel about the son of Holocaust survivors who grows up in
a home dominated by his tormented mother and later becomes a Nazi-hunting
lawyer.”
2001: Patrick
Balkany began serving as Mayor of Levallois-Perret
2002: 1st Lt.
Tal Zemach, 20, of Kibbutz Hulda, was killed and three soldiers were injured
when Palestinian terrorists opened fire on them in the Jordan Valley. Hamas
claimed responsibility for the attack.
2003: A West
End revival of “Ragtime,” a musical based on the book by E.L. Doctorow
produced, by Sonia Friedman opened at the Piccadilly Theatre today.
2003: David
Tepper announced that he would make a single donation of $55 million to
Carnegie Mellon University’s business school
2003: The
American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors sends a letter to the Jewish
Holocaust Survivors of Canada addressing the next steps to be taken in the
distribution and use of funds from the Claims Conference that has worked to
gain additional restitution for the victims of the Holocaust.
2003: Mahmoud
Abbas became the new Palestinian Prime Minister. His appointment was supposed
to mark a new phase in peace negations. Without Arafat’s support, he, like the
peace process at that time, was doomed to failure. He finally resigned.
2003: Zion
Boshirian, 51, of Mevo Dotan was shot and killed while driving in his car
between Mevo Dotan and Shaked in northern Samaria. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs
Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
2004: “George
Khoury, 20, a Christian Arab and the son of well-known veteran attorney Elias
Khoury of Beit Hanina, was shot to death from a vehicle while jogging in the
north Jerusalem neighborhood of French Hill. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade,
which claimed responsibility for the attack, later published an apology.”
(Jewish Virtual Library)
2005(8th
of Adar II, 5765): Parashat Vayikra; Shabbat Zachor
2005: As
Israel unilaterally withdraws from Gaza with no pre-conditions, “the Palestine
economy minister” said “that representatives of Arab countries” have “also said
they would make good on an outstanding pledge…to provide $523 million to the
Palestinians.”
2006: The New York Times featured
reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including “The Doctor’s Daughter” by Hilma Wolitzer and “Anna of
All the Russias: The Life of Anna Akhmatova” by Elaine Feinstein
2006: The
Second World Congress of Imams and Rabbis for Peace began in Seville, Spain.
2007: While
the world’s cricketing powers are engaged in the World Cup, history is being
made today when for the first time an Israeli team steps out onto the cricket
fields of India.
2007: The
lawyers for Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who was charged with murdering Daniel
Pearl, “cited the confession of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed who said he had
“decapitated…the American Jew Daniel Pearl” as proof that while their client
had been involved, he had not done the actually killing and therefore should
not be executed.
2008:
“Regina Waldman, an executive committee member of Justice for Jews from
Arab Countries, appeared before the United Nations Human Rights Council in
Geneva, where she testified about her family’ flight from Libya after the
Second World War.”
2008: Eric
Alterman, a professor of English and journalism at the City University of New
York, discusses and signs Why We’re Liberals: A Political Handbook for
Post-Bush America at Prose Bookstore, in Washington, D.C.
2008: In New
York, the 92nd Street Y features a presentation by Edward Kaplan entitled “Spiritual
Radical: On Abraham Joshua Heschel.”
2009: As part
of the Blavatnik Chamber Concert Series, The Center for Jewish History and the
Leo Baeck Institute present: “Women in Song: From Baroque to the Present”
performed by the Phoenix Chamber Ensemble under the direction of Vassa Shevel
and Inessa Zaretsky. The evening features songs by Felix’s sister Fanny
Mendelssohn-Hensel along with other women composers from Germany, France and
America.
2009: Elena
Kagan completed her service as the 11th Dean of Harvard Law School.
2009: By a
vote of 61 to 31, the United States Senate confirmed the appointment of Elena
as Solicitor General of the United States, making her the first woman to hold
this position.
2009: A
revival of the 1950’s musical “West Side Story” opens on Broadway directed by
Arthur Laurents, the 92 year old Brooklyn born Jew whose views about the world
of American theatre are readily available in his recently published book,
Mainly on Directing: Gypsy, West Side Story, and Other Musicals”
2009: An anonymous
American Jewish investor celebrated his eldest son’s Bar Mitzvah which took
place this morning at the Western Wall by contributing a Torah scroll to the
Samarian outpost community of El Matan, next to Ma’aleh Shomron and Ginot
Shomron. The name of the community means “G-d’s Gift” in Hebrew, and the donor,
a man of Moroccan descent, said that the mitzvah of giving the holy scroll is
all the recognition he needs.
http://capeverdejewishheritage.org/
2009: “Cape Verde Heritage Project Launched”
published today described “an effort to preserve the Jewish heritage in Cape
Verde” that “was formally launched in Washington.”
2010: Itzhak
Perlman, the IPO and Emmanuel Halperin perform together this morning in Tel
Aviv.
2010: Previews
of “Sondheim on Sondheim” are scheduled to begin Studio 54.
2010: Elephant
Parade, one of an unprecedented eight bands imported from Israel for the sole
purpose of taking part in this year’s SXSW (South by Southwest) festival is
scheduled to play at Stephen F’s Bar.
2010: The
opening reception for “My Father’s Microcosm, Tel Aviv”, a
photographic installation by Israeli photographer Yossi Guttmann and curated by
Eva Grudin is scheduled to take place this evening at The Williams Club of New
York.
2010: The Air
Force hit six targets in Gaza early this morning in response to recent rocket
attacks on southern Israel.
2010:
Israeli-based Teva Pharmaceutical Industries has succeeded in acquiring German
generic drug maker Ratiopharm for $4.9 billion, beating out U.S. drug firms
Pfizer and Actavis of Iceland in the bidding that ended today.
2010: David Adelman
was confirmed as United States Ambassador to Singapore.
2010(4th
of Nisan, 5770): Ninety-five year old George Lane, the husband of Miriam
Rothschild, who earned the rank of Colonel while serving as a commando with SOE
in WW II passed away today.
http://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-colonel-george-lane-1-798235
2011: Civilian
areas in southern Israel were heavily shelled by Palestinian terrorists in Gaza
this morning, when more than 50 mortars were fired at the regional councils of
Sha’ar Hanegev,
2011: Foreign
Minister Avigdor Lieberman instructed Israel’s United Nations envoy to lodge a
formal complaint with the organization after Israel was hit by over 50 mortars
fired from Gaza this morning.
2011: “Yiddush
Cup” is scheduled to play tonight at Park Synagogue in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.
2011(13th of
Adar II, 5771): Shabbat Zachor
2011: In the
evening, the Megillah is read as Purim celebrations begin.
2011(13th of
Adar II, 5771): Sixty-three year old Larry Friedlander who founded Reason
Magazine passed away today.(As reported by Margalit Fox)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/07/us/07friedlander.html
2012: The
Women’s Conference sponsored by Temple Torah is scheduled to open at West
Boyton Beach, Florida.
2012: “Mabul”
and “Little Simco’s Big Fantasy” are scheduled to be shown at the 16th New York
Sephardic Film Festival.
2012(25th
of Adar, 5222): Eighty-three year old Belgian born American director and
producer Ulu Grosbard passed away today in New York,.
2012(25th
of Adar, 5222): In Toulouse, Mohamed Merah opened fire on two Jewish pupils,
their father and the headmaster’s daughter at Otzar Hatorah which is now called
Ohr Torah School.
2012(25th
Adar, 5772): Yahrtzeit for those who perished in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
Fire.
2013: The
Bernard and Irene Schwartz Distinguished Speakers series is scheduled to
present “Seward: Lincoln’s Indispensable Man” featuring Walter Stahr and Louis
P. Masur
2013(8th
of Nisan, 5773): Eighty-nine year old ” the matriarch of the last of the grand
Catskill resorts, who greeted guests with a “Welcome home,” made sure the
regulars got rooms facing the lake, entertained them with comedians and filled
them with blintzes and stuffed cabbage” passed away today. (As reported by
Joseph Berger)
http://www.timesofisrael.com/a-tour-of-a-little-catskills-resort-with-a-large-heart/
2013: The
former Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, newly installed as Pope Francis I,
opened his speech at today’s Papal inauguration with a nod to the Jewish
community, saying say he was speaking “with the permission of the diplomatic
corps, the Jews who are with us and all the rest,” according to Israel’s Chief
Rabbinate. (As reported by Sam Sokol)
2013: The
remains of 17 bodies, discovered at the bottom of a well in the city of Norwich
in 2004, were given a Jewish burial in Earlham Cemetery in Norwich today.
2013: A day
after being sworn into office, Israel’s incoming ministers today celebrated a
series of changing-of-the-guard ceremonies at their respective ministries,
ushering in Israel’s 33rd government. The first ceremony took place at the
Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, where incoming minister Moshe Ya’alon replaced
Ehud Barak at the helm.
2013: The
Jerusalem Art Festival is scheduled to present “Cairo Circus”
http://www.jerusalem.muni.il/jer_sys/ArtCenter/ArtFestival/alle.htm
2013: In New
York, the Anastasia Photo Gallery is scheduled to host its first show featuring
the works of Israeli photographer Natan Dvir
2014:
In a sign of the changing times for Jewish institutions, in Olney, MD. Jewish
Social Service Agency is scheduled to host an evening on “The Secrets to a
Successful Job Search” at Shaare Tefila Congregation.
2014:
“La Verite si Je Mens #3” (“Would I Like to You #3”) is scheduled to be shown
at the New York Jewish Sephardic Film Festival.
2014:
“”Aftermath” is scheduled to be shown at the Houston (TX) Jewish Film Festival.
2014:
Ninety-five year old Robert S. Strauss, the Texas born Washington insider and
diplomat passed away today.
2014:
Seventieth Anniversary of the German Occupation of Budapest.
http://forward.com/articles/194601/how-hungarian-sisters-outwitted-the-nazis-to-creat/?p=all
2014:
The IAF attacked serval sites on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights overnight
that “had aided and abetted the attack against IDF soldiers and included
artillery batteries and a training camp belonging to the Syrian army.” (As
reported by Elad Benari)
2014:
“A bill that would allow local rabbis to oversee conversions to Judaism in
Israel passed the Kneseet’s Constitution, Law and Justice Committee today.”
2014:
“Two former senior IDF officers were held by police for questioning today on
suspicion of deliberately destroying evidence connected with the Harpaz affair,
a corruption scandal involving Israel’s political and military leaderships
during 2009 to 2011.
2014:
Russell Crowe, the star of “Noah” who had been pushing for a meeting with the
Pope got his wish granted, sort of, today when he, producer Darren Aronofsky
and Paramount Pictures Vice President Rob Moore were “on hand for the pope’s
general audience” today followed by a “short meet-and-greet with the
Pope.” The trio hopes that the visit
with the Pope will still some of the controversy created by a call for a
boycott of the film by Muslims and Evangelicals.
2015(28th
of Adar, 5775): Seventy-two year old Boston radio “gadfly” Danny Schechter
passed away today.
2015:
The US Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled to host a talk “featuring Steven
Fenves, who survived internment in Auschwitz-Birkenau and Buchenwald before
being liberated by American soldiers.”
2015:
“A new documentary ‘Philip Roth: Unmasked’” is scheduled to be performed for
the last time at New York City’s Film Forum.
2015:
The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education is scheduled to
host “an eveing of live music and feminist Torah celebrating the release of
Girls in Trouble’s new album, ‘Open Ground.’”
2015:
The 18th Annual New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival is scheduled
to come to an end in NYC.
2015:
The Jewish Theological Seminary is scheduled to host a lecture on “Race,
Bias and Equal Justice in America”
2015:
The Canadian Haggadah Canadienne is
scheduled to go on sale in Ottawa.
2016(9th
of Adar II, 5776: Parahsat Vayikra and Shabbat Zachor;
2016(9th
of Adar II, 5776): Three Israelis – Yonathan Shuer, 40; Simha Dimir, 60; Avraham
Goldman, 69 – were killed and another 11 Israelis were wound in a terror attack
today in Istanbul.
2016(9th
of Adar II, 5776): Eighty-five year old Bob Adelman, the photographer best
known for the images he captured of the Civil Rights struggle passed away
today.
2016:
The tour “Jews in the American South” is scheduled to begin today in
Charleston, SC.
2016:
“Rock in the Red Zone” is scheduled to be shown at the Israeli Film Festival in
Philadelphia, PA.
2016:
“Remember” and “Serial Bad Weddings” are scheduled to shown at the Houston
Jewish Film Festival.
2016:
In New Orleans, the second day of Limmudfest is scheduled to begin with services
at Gates of Prayer
2016:
As Jews observe the first Shabbat after Merrick Garland has been nominated to
fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court, the sense of communal pride is enhanced by
the memory that it was just 100 years ago, in the winter of 1916 that President
Wilson nominated the first Jew – Louis Brandeis – to serve on the Supreme
Court. At the same time this may be
considered a case of third –time is the charm.
Benjamin Cardozo was nominated by President Hoover to serve on the High
Court during an election year (1932) making Garland the third Jew to be chosen
in such a manner. George Washington, who
made the Jews feel like welcomed members of the American community, was the
first President to nominate a Justice to the High Court during an election year
and he actually did it twice in 1796 when he was a “lame duck.”
2017:
The New York Times published reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel the recently
released paperback editions of Don’t Let My Baby Do Rodeo by Boris
Fishman, Girls and Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape by
Peggy Orenstein and Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics and the
Sterilization of Carrie Bucky by Adam Cohen
2017:
Am Kolel in partnership with the Jewish Folk Arts Festival, Yiddish of Greater
Washington, The Foundation of Jewish Studies, and the Jewish Study Center is
scheduled to sponsor “The Great Yiddish Writers Festival” at B’nai Israel in
Rockville, MD.
2017:
A surprise drill began today in which “2,000 reserve soldiers were called up…to
simulate war in the Gaza Strip.”
2017: Former Arizona Wildcats basketball
player Josh Pastner, the ACC coach of the year, led his Georgia Tech to victory
against Belmont in the NIT.
2017:
The Breman Museum / Theatrical Outfit / Atlanta Jewish Music Festival are
scheduled to present “Baby That Is Rock ‘N’ Roll: The Leiber/Stoller Era.”
2017:
The Jewish Endowment Foundation of Louisiana (JEF) is scheduled to mark half a
century of service to the Greater New Orleans Jewish community with its Annual
Event today in the Grand Ballroom) of the Westin Canal Place.
2018:
“Beneath the Silence” is scheduled to be shown this evening at the New Jersey
Jewish Film Festival.
2018:
The Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players which was founded by Jens Nygaard who
directed the Washington Heights YW-YMHA concerts for 25 years is scheduled to
perform “Rooted in Russia today
2018(3rd
of Nissan, 5778): Sixty-nine year old Dr. Arnold Richard Hirsch, the Chicago
born son of Nathan Hirsch and Mollie Shulman and the University of Illinois
trained historian best known for chronicling the story of housing segregation
passed away today. (As reported Sewell Chan)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/28/obituaries/arnold-hirsch-chicago-historian-dead.html
2018:
“Romain Franck, a French employee of France’s Consulate in Jerusalem” “was
indicted today for using a diplomatic vehicle to smuggle dozens of guns from
Gaza to the West Bank.”
2018:
JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story” in
London
2018:
Mayim Bialik, the holder of a doctorate in neuroscience who gained fame a “Amy
Fowler-Farrah” on “The Big Bang Theory” is scheduled to address The Global
Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism which is scheduled to begin today in
Jerusalem.
2019: In Cedar Rapids, IA, the Thaler Holocaust
Memorial Education Fund is scheduled to host “From India to America: Routes of
the Roma“ presentation at the National Czech and Slovak Museum & Library
during which Ian Hancock (professor emeritus at UT, Austin) “one of the world’s
foremost scholars on Romani history will discuss the history of the little
known but often persecuted people.
2019: In Des Moines IA, at Temple B’nai
Jeshurun,Grinnell Professor Katya Gibel Mevorach is scheduled to speak about
“The Challenge of Addressing Anti-Semitism Today” and Rabbi Yossi Jacobson is
scheduled to speak about “Encountering Antisemitism in London” and “The Current
Series of Attacks on Chassidim in Brooklyn” as part of the JCRC Antisemitism
Forum.
2019(12th of Adar II, 5779):
Seventy-nine-year-old photographer, the Manhattan born son of
Lillian
(Block) Kaplan and Dr. William Kaplan, “a founder of what is now North Shore
University Hospital on Long Island” who married Sharon Rosenbush after his
divorce from Harriet Avramescu passed away today. (As reported by Sam Roberts)
2019: The American Jewish Historical Society is
scheduled to present “Searching For Survivors: The Fate of the St. Louis
Passengers” during which “Scott Miller, former Director of Curatorial Affairs
at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, will discuss his decades-long
search to uncover the fate of every passenger from this tragic journey and
JDC’s historic role in striving to rescue them.”
2019” The Center for Jewish History is
scheduled to host a screening of “Black Honey: The Life and Poetry of Avraham
Sutzkever” which tells the story of the Yiddish poet and his impact on Jewish
history and literature.
2019: The Boca Raton Jewish Film Festival is
scheduled to host the “Palm Beach Country” premiere of “From Cairo to the
Cloud” The World of the Cairo Geniza.
2019: In London, the exhibition of “Jews Money
Myth” is scheduled to open at the Jewish Museum.
https://jewishmuseum.org.uk/exhibitions/jews-money-myth/
2020: In London, the scheduled screening of
“Those Who Remained” hosted by JW3 will not take place due to the pandemic.
2020: The scheduled screenings of “Final
Transports” and “Childhood Lost” hosted by the Illinois Holocaust Museum will
not take place “in accordance with the recommendations of Governor Pritzker and
Mayor Lightfoot.”
2020: In Cedar Rapids, the final session of
“Israel’s Milestones and Their Meanings” scheduled for today will not take
place due to the pandemic.
2020: In San Francisco, The “Future of Jewish
Food” during which SFSU professor Rachel Gross and “Meat Planet” author Benjamin
Aldes Wurgaft were to discuss kashrut, lab-grown meat and technology” which
scheduled to be held today at the Contemporary Jewish Museum has been canceled
due to the pandemic.
2020(23rd of Adar, 5780): On the
Jewish calendar Yahrzeits of “Portuguese poet and Hebrew grammarian” Moses
Gideon Abudiente. (As reported by Abraham Bloch)
2021: This Shabbat ONETABLE is scheduled to
present “a service with Kat Morgan from Urban Adamah and Rabbi Paul Shleffar
from San Quentin’s Jewish Congregation, where we will ask “what do gatherings,
like that of Shabbat, gift us?,” “how can our Judaism connect to our service?,”
and explore resources for us to deepen our engagement and support of those
individuals who are living this COVID-19 reality, incarcerated.
2021: Congregation B’nai Torah of Sudbury is
scheduled to host online “a Kick-Back-and-Relax Shabbat service” which will
include music “by
composers such as Simon and Garfunkel, Carly Simon, The Beatles, Joni Mitchell,
The Indigo Girls, Shanai Twain, The Carpenters, Bill Withers, Fleetwood Mac and
more.”
2021:
JCC Contra Costa is scheduled to start hosting a screening “Live and Become”
the 2005 French-Israeli drama about an Ethiopian boy who passes himself off as
a Jew, gets rescued from a refugee camp and grows up in Israel.
2021:
The Jewish Secular Community of Cleveland is scheduled to host “Rescue Your
Photos” with Lisa Griffis, the former photo editor and graphics designer at the
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
2021:
Challah for Hunger is scheduled to present “Let My People Dough” that includes
a demonstration of “how to make the perfect loaf of challah” followed by “some
fun musical and advocacy activities.”
2021:
In a virtual session examining UC Berkeley’s Magnes Collection, curators
Francesco Spagnolo and Shir Kochavi are scheduled to talk about an exhibit that
considered sounds emitted during synagogue services, mainly by ritual objects
but also by acts such as removing the Torah from the ark.
2021:
Today Israelis can look forward to great social freedom thanks to yesterday’s
approval of a fourth stage of Israel’s coronavirus lockdown
exit, which includes the increase in the number of people allowed at social
gatherings, with up to 5,000 visitors permitted at stadiums. (As reported by Moran
Azulay and Adir Yanko)
2022: The Eden Tamir Center is scheduled to host
a Special Purim Concert.
2022(16th of Adar II, 5782): Parashat
Tzav
2023: Museum at Eldridge is scheduled to host a
“Jewish Lower East Side Walking Tour.”
2023: The Jewish Genealogical Society, LBI and
the Kindertransport Association is scheduled to present Melissa Hacker, Wendy
Henry and Dr. Amy Williams a lecture on The Kindertransports: The KTA, The 80th
Year Commemorative Journey and New Research.
2023: Israeli, Palestinian, American, Egyptian
and Jordanian officials are set to convene today in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt for
a summit aimed to help foster regional calm ahead of the sensitive Ramadan
period, which begins next week, (TOI
2023: Fashion Week is scheduled to begin today in
Tel Aviv.
2023:
LimmuFest New Orleans is scheduled to come to an end today.
2023: In
Newark, NJ, “Phillip Roth Unbound: Illuminating a Literary History” sponsored
by the New Jersey Performing Arts Center is scheduled to come to an end.
2023: Based on announcement made on March 16, as
of today “some 650 reserve troops from the intelligence and cyber units in the
IDF would no longer volunteer for service after the coalition rejected the
president’s proposed compromise.”
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rytfdebx2
2023: The National Library of Israel is scheduled
to host a lecture by Professor Renee Levine Melammed on “Asenath Barazani, the
16th Century Rosh Yeshiva From Kurdistan: Myth and Reality.”
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