This Day, March 10, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
March 10
515 BCE (Adar 5):
According to Ezra VI, 15, in the sixth year of the reign of Darius, the Second
Temple was completed today. (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.)
0037: Roman Emperor
Tiberius passed away at age 78. He
followed Augustus to the throne and reigned from 14 through 37. His record in dealing with the Jews was a
mixed one. On the one hand he over-ruled
anti-Jewish edicts of Pontius Pilate, governor of Judea. At the same, he temporarily expelled all of
the Jews from Rome when a Jew was falsely accused of defrauding a Roman matron.
0298: The Roman Emperor Maximian concluded his
campaign in North Africa against the Berbers and made a triumphal entry into
Carthage. The city of Carthage
appears repeatedly throughout Roman history.
According to some historians, when Carthage fell to the Romans after the
Punic Wars, “many Carthaginians and Phoenicians converted to Judaism, because
Jerusalem was the only remaining centre of West Semitic civilization.” They
attribute the original Jewish settlements in Spain to the fact that Spain had
been a Carthaginian colony and that these settlers were part of a group of
these converts. The Berbers would also
figure in Jewish history. In the 7th century, they would convert to
Islam. In the 8th century,
the Berbers were a major part of the Muslim force that drove the Christians out
of Spain and created a comparatively hospitable for the Jewish people.
0418: Jews were excluded from holding public
office in the Roman Empire
1126: Following the death of his mother Alfonso
VII, the monarch who started a school in Toledo which begins to spread Hebrew
and Arabic learning as well as ancient Greek knowledge through Western Europe
was crowned King of Leon and Castille.
1452: Birthdate of Ferdinand II the Catholic, King
of Aragon/Sicily who expelled the Jews from his realm.
1533:
“Federico II Gonzaga, the ruler of the Italian city of Mantua at the time of
the birth of Leone de’ Sommi, the first “unapologetically Jewish playwright and
poet” and a ruler who enjoyed Jewish comedians enough to hire “Solly and Jacob
and his wife Margaret Paleologina gave birth to Francesco III Gonzaga.
1561:
A document bearing today’s date “contains a complaint of Pan Andrei Okhrenskis,
the representative of Prince Nikolai Radziwill and of the Jew Mikhel again
Matvel Voitekhovich, an estate-owner in the district of Pinsk” claiming that he
had sent “a number of his men to the potash works managed by the
above-mentioned Jew” where the “damaged the premises,” drove off the workers
and committed “many thefts.”
1616:
Vincent Fettmilch was hanged. Fettmilch lived at Frankfort on the Main
(Germany). During a period of economic downturn (1612-1616), the ruling
class blamed the problems on the Jews. They allowed anti-Semitic
demagogues to attack the Jews. Fettmilch was the ringleader of the action
that resulted in the destruction of the Jewish property in the ghetto.
Jews fled for their lives. Without the Jews to blame, the powers that be
feared the mobs would turn on them. So they hanged Fettmilch as a way of re-establishing
law and order.
1735:
Jochabed Michaels and London native Judah Mears gave birth to Catherine Mears,
the wife of Asher Myers.
1743:
Today, Nathan Ley and David Franks of Philadelphia are listed as two of the
owners of the Philadelphia built schooner Drake two years before they
“appear…as the owners of the sloop Sea Flower built in Connecticut” and five
years before they appear as the owner of Myrtilla.
1749:
In the Republic of Venice at Ceneda, Geronimo Coneglian who would later convert
from Judaism to Catholicism so he could a woman who was a Roman Catholic, and
his wife gave birth to Emanuele Conegliano who gained fame as Roman Catholic
priest Lorenzo Da Ponte whose artistic accomplished included writing “the
libretti for 28 operas by 11 composers, including three of Mozart’s most
celebrated operas, Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro and Così fan tutte.”
1754(16th
of Adar, 5514): Shushan Purim
1762:
Birthdate of Prussian native Gittel Sachs, the wife of Levin Samson with whom
she had seven children.
1770(13th
of Adar, 5530): Parashat Tetzaveh; Erev Purim
1794:
In London, Leah Jacobs and Joseph Hart Myers gave birth to Maria Hart Myers,
the wife of Loftus Longueville Tottenham Clarke.
1771:
In New York, Uriah Hendricks and his first wife Eva Esther Henricks gave birth
to Harmon Hendricks
1791(4th
of Adar II): Rabbi Aryeh Leib Sarah, a disciple of Rabbi Dov Baer passed away.
1793:
One day after he had passed away, 54-year-old Abraham Bowley Barrow was buried
today at the “Alderney Road (Globe Rd) Jewish Cemetery.
1800(13th
of Adar, 5560): Ta’anit Esther observed for the first time in the 19th
century.
1800(13th
of Adar, 5560): Erev Purim; the Megillah is read for the first time in the 19th
century.
1802:
Victor Abraham married Rebecca Levy at the Great Synagogue today.
1810:
Birthdate of Frankfurt native Henry Sigismund Straus, the husband of Henrietta
Straus with whom he had seven children.
1811(14th
of Adar, 5571): Purim observed on the same day that the Spanish fortress town
of Badajoz surrendered to Marshal Jean Soult, its capture depriving the
British, Portuguese, and Spanish alliance of a vital defensive bastion, one
that dominated a nexus of roads in the border region of Extremadura, Spain.
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/bloody-stand-at-the-battle-of-albuera/
1819(13th
of Adar, 5579): Ta’anit Esther; Erev Purim
1822:
Birthdate of Tarnow, Poland native, Isaak Ettinger, the husband of Rebecca
Schapiro.
1822(17th
of Adar, 5582): The mother of Moses Sofer, Reizel the daughter of Elchanan
passed away.
1823:
In Prague, Abraham and Judith Eidlitz gave birth to New York architect whose
commissions included the former Temple Emanu-El sanctuary built in New York
between1866 and 1868 and which was destroyed in 1927
1827(11th
of Adar, 5587): Parashat Tetzaveh; Shabbat Zachor.
1828:
Birthdate of Lorraine native Marc Jacob Isaac, the “French educationist and writer” who taught at Jewish schools in
Alsace and Paris and was “a contributor to the “Archives Israelites.”
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/8196-isaac-marc-jacob
1831:
The French Foreign Legion was established by King Louis-Philippe to support his
war in Algeria. A large number of Jews who fled Eastern Europe during the
1930’s found “a home” in the French Foreign Legion. For more about the Legion and the Jewish
people see Jews and the French Foreign Legion by Zosa Szajkowski
1841:
One day after she had passed away, 67-year-old Martha Ralph, the wife of Henry
Ralph was buried today at the Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.
1845:
Birthdate of Czar Alexander III, the second to the last of the Romanov
Czars. In a line of rulers who made life
hell on earth for the Jewish people, Alexander stands out as one of the worst,
if not the worst of the lot. His policies were intended to give meaning to the
one third, one third, one third rule. One third of the Jews would leave Russia,
one third would convert. One third would perish.
1845:
The Jewish Reform movement in Germany was publicly announced
1845:
In Kovno, Rabbi Aaron Silberstein and Zibhya Sander gave birth to Rabbi Solomon
(Sholem) Joseph Silberstein, the grandson of Kabbalist Naphtali and the author
of numerous works including General Law of Nature and The Jewish
Problem and Theology in General.
1847:
Birthdate of “French deputy jurist Camille Sée, the native of Colmar, Alsace,
who was the nephew of French physician Germain Sée and founder of “the École
normale supérieure in Sèvres in 1881.
1854:
Esther Braham and Joseph Benjamin gave birth to Ellen Benjamin, the wife of
Berman Berliner and the mother of Blanche, Walter and Harold Berliner.
1855(20th
of Adar, 5615): Parashat Ki Tisa and Shabbat Parah
1855(20th
of Adar, 5615): Sixty-six-year-old Carol Mayer von Rothschild the Frankfurt am
Main born son of Mayer Amschel Rothschild and Gulte Schnapper and husband of
Adelheid Herz with whom he had four children who was “the founder of the
Rothschild banking family of Naples” passed away today.
1856:
The News of the World reported that
in Constantinople a Turkish woman who could not locate her child for several
hours started to scream after local Greeks told her Jews had dragged her child
by force into the house to drain its blood for use on Passover. A crowd
gathered and started to smash the windows of the home and was only held back by
the French soldiers. The child later was found by the mother.
1857(14th
of Adar, 5617): Purim celebrated for the first time during the Presidency of
James Buchanan
1858(24th
of Adar, 5618): Forty-eight-year-old London native and journalist Robert Lyon
who in 1844 came to the United States where he founded and published The
Asmonean starting in 1849 passed away today.
https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84021919/
1859:
In Budapest, Jeanette and Jacob Herzl gave birth to Pauline Herzl, the sister
of Theodor Herzl
1860(16th
of Adar, 5620): Parashat Ki Tisa
1860:
Mortiz Pinner, the German-Jewish immigrant abolitionist who was a publishing a
newspaper in Kansas City served as a delegate at the Republican State
Convention in Missouri. Pinner would be
chosen as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago where
Abraham Lincoln was nominated as President of the United States.
1861:
Birthdate of Meier Dizengoff. A native
of Bessarabia, he would make Aliyah in 1905, help found Tel Aviv in 1909 and
then became its first mayor.
1862:
During the Civil War, William Durst was on board the U.S.S. Monitor as it held
its position waiting in vain for the CSS Virginia to return to the fray – a
failure to engage which meant the Union blockade of the Confederacy, a key to
Union victory would hold and grow.
1863:
Guests at today’s wedding Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (the future King
Edward VII) and Alexandra of Denmark heard a wedding march composed by Sir
Julius Benedict the son of a German Jewish banker.
1864:
During the American Civil War, beginning of the Red River Campaign which would
claim the life of Colonel Newbold of the Fourteenth Iowa.
1866
(23 Adar 5626): Yitzchak Meir Alter
passed away. Born in 1798, he is the first Rebbe of the Ger Chasidic dynasty.
Some of his followers referred to him as Reb Itche Meir as the Chidushei HaRim.
1867:
Birthdate of Lillian Wald. Born into a successful merchant family in
Cincinnati, Ohio, and raised in Rochester, New York, Lillian Wald is remembered
today as the founder of public health nursing and an influential pioneer in the
settlement house movement of the early twentieth century.
http://www.aahn.org/gravesites/wald.html
http://jwa.org/womenofvalor/wald
1868:
“The Purim Ball” published today reported that last night’s Purim Ball was so
lavish that it was a fitting way to end New York’s gala winter social season.
“The truly brilliant affair” reinforced the reputation of the Purim Society for
providing a ball that “was unique in character” and “meriting the praise” that
it has continued to receive. The ball not only is the epitome of refinement, it
raises money for the disadvantaged – Jew and non-Jew alike.
1868(16th
of Adar, 5628): Naphtali Hirsch Katzenellenbogen, the son of Simḥah
Katzenellenbogen, “who was the editor of the baraita of thirty-two middot” and
who delivered a funeral oration in memory of Saul Katzenellenbogen, passed away
today.
1869:
Abraham Belasco married Maria Davis at Bevis Marks Synagogue.
1869:
Birthdate of Shavel native Benjamin Fedorovich Kagan, who was expelled in 1889 from
Novorossysky University in Odessa for participating in the Democratic Students
movement and who earned degrees from Kiev University and St. Petersburg
University and then he taught at Novorossysky from 1897 to 1922, becoming a
Professor in 1917 before final being appointed Professor of Differential
Geometry in 1922.
1870:
Birthdate of Polish actress Ester Rachel Halpern, who after marrying her
manager Avom Yishok Kaminksa gained fame as Ester Rachel Kaminksa, who was
figuratively “known as the mother of modern Yiddish Theater” and who was
actually the mother of actress and film start Ida Kaminksa.
https://yiddishkayt.org/view/esther-rachel-kaminska/
1870(7th of Adar, II 5630): Czech born
composer Isaak-Ignaz Moscheles passed away at the age of 75.
1871:
Seventy-eight-year-old German author August Lewald, the cousin of novelist
Fanny Lewald, the Jewess who converted to Christianity, passed away today.
1872(30th
of Adar I, 5632): Rosh Chodesh Adar II
1872:
In Luka (Czech Republic): Julie and Samuel Hirsch gave birth to Albert Hirsch,
the husband of Irma Hirsch.
1873:
Birthdate of Anna Allscoffova, who was transported from Prague to Terezin in
1942 and then to Auschwitz in 1944 where she murdered at the age of 71.
1873:
Birthdate of Jakob Wassermann author of My Life As a German and a Jew.
Wasserman was a novelist who dealt with challenges of being both a German and a
Jew. His writings urged Jews to assimilate and “and thus
destroy themselves as a group. By the end of his life, he recognized that
Jewish survival was inevitable and desirable.”
1875:
It was reported today that E.B. Hart, Joseph Seligman and Joseph Koch are among
the prominent Jews heading the committee of the Purim Association that will be
responsible for the upcoming Hebrew Charity Ball.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D04EFD9153BEF34BC4852DFB566838E669FDE
1875:
Die Königin von Saba (The Queen of
Sheba), an opera in four acts by Karl Goldmark was first performed today at the
Hofoper (now the State Opera) in Vienna,
1876(14th
of Adar, 5638) Purim
1876:
The Anshe Bikur Cholim Society held a reception this evening at Irving
Hall. It was very well attended because
it was the Purim celebration of its kind in New York held today.
1876:
In Pittsburgh, PA, Moses Lehman, the brother of Isaac Lehman, and his wife
Franny Frank Lehman gave birth to the first of their four children Irvin Frank
Lehman, the husband of Fanny Klein Lehman, the son of David Lehman and “one of
the original trustees of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies.”
http://www.jewishfamilieshistory.org/entry/lehman-family/
1877:
In what was then Galicia, Esther Verner and dairy farmer Jacob Taffel gave
birth to Frank Taffel who founded the Fulton Auto Exchange in Atlanta, GA in
1924.
1877:
Birthdate of German native and University of Maryland trained medical doctor
Irving J. Spear, the husband of Hortense Greenwald and Professor of Neurology and
Clinical Psychiatry at the University of Maryland.
1878:
Birthdate of Lamed Lev Shapiro, the Ukrainian born Yiddish author known as
Lamed Shapiro.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSmpid=47096763&GRid=107567784&
http://forward.com/articles/10618/an-offering-to-the-priests-of-yiddish/?
1879(15th
of Adar, 5639): Shushan Purim
1879:
Ernest Falck married Matilda Samuel today.
1880:
In Hungary, “a doctor in a small town” and his wife gave birth to Max Thorek, a
graduate of Rush Medical College who “founded the International College of
Surgeons.
https://www.bmj.com/content/1/5170/431.3
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1943/11/07/85131581.pdf
1880:
In Vilnius, Bella and Israel Chaim Daiches gave birth to Rabbi Salis Daiches,
the husband of Flora Daiches and holder of a PhD from Leipzig University who
became the Rabbi of the Edinburgh (Scotland) Hebrew Congregation in 1918.
1884(13th
of Adar, 5644): Fast of Esther
1886:
In Cincinnati, OH, Leopold and Rosa (Simon) Adler gave birth to Cincinnati
College of Music trained pianist Clarence Adler, the husband of Elsa Adrienne
Richard, the founder of the of the New York Trio which at that time was a
leading chamber music ensemble and one of the founders of the New Synagogue in
New York City in 1915.
1886:
At the Hasell Street Synagogue, Rabbi David Levy officiated at the wedding of
Belle Elias to Isadore Blank.
1887(14th
of Adar, 5647): Purim
1887:
“Three Hebrew clergymen” – Dr. L. Wintner, William Sparger, Leon Harrison –
wrote a condolence letter to the widow of Henry Ward Beecher expressing their
sorrow over his passing.
1887:
In Galicia, Esther Verner and dairy farmer Jacob Taffel gave birth to Shrage
Fyvel Taffe who as Frank Taffel became a pillar of the Georgia (USA) Jewish
community.
1888(27th
of Adar): Ferdinand Eberstadt, the first Jewish Mayor of Worms, passed away
1888(27th
of Adar): Scholar and philanthropist Issachar Dov Ber Bampi passed away
1890:
The Young Men’s Hebrew Association will host its fifth “informal entertainment
of the season this evening at Vienna Hall.
1890:
The body of an unidentified Jews was found in a cellar at a house on Eldridge
Street in New York City.
1890:
The Downtown Religious and Sewing Schools and the Young Men’s Society will hold
their Purim celebration tonight at Pythagoras Hall.
1891:
Birthdate of Sam Jaffe who starred in movies and television. He gained
early fame playing an Indian water boy in the film “Gunga Din.”
Television viewers of the 1950’s and 1960’s saw him as wise old Dr. Zorba in
the popular medical series called “Ben Casey.”
1892(11th
of Adar, 5652): Ta’anit Esther
1892:
In Grodno, Russia, “Rabbi Eliezer Lipman and Chaya Gitel (Berkowsky) Farber
gave birth to Lester Lipman Farber, product of the El Paso, TX public schools
and husband of Lillian D. Flaum who was the President of Congregation B’nai
Zion and the founder of the Talmud Torah in El Paso.
1892:
Friedman Silverstein, a Jewish immigrant from Russia who has been living in the
United States for 2 years was diagnosed as having typhus fever today.
1892:
Two days after she had passed away, Elizabeth Joseph, the “daughter of the late
Abraham and Sarah (Falcke) Joseph was buried today at the Balls Pond Road
Jewish Cemetery.
1892:
Ruben Lodge No. 3 of the Independent Order of the Free Sons of Israel will host
a masquerade ball this evening at the Lexington Opera House.
1893:
Lillian Wald opened the Lower East Side
settlement house that would become the Henry Street Settlement on her 26th
birthday. The Nurses’ Settlement opened on Jefferson Street. Two years later,
in 1895, she moved her enterprise to Henry Street. In both locations, the
settlement was dedicated to public health nursing, a term Wald coined to
describe an organic relationship between health care and broader community
needs. In the first year, the settlement cared for 4,500 patients. Recognizing
the interconnectedness of illness and poverty, Wald expanded the activities of
the settlement over time. The renamed Henry Street Settlement House offered
boys’ and girls’ clubs; classes in arts, crafts, homemaking and English; and
vocational training. Health care remained important, with over 26,000 patients
cared for by 100 Henry Street nurses in 1915.
1893: In Philadelphia, Rabbi Dr. Henry Berkowitz
delivers a speech to his congregation, Rodelph Shalom in which he suggests that
a society be formed in the United States for “the dissemination of
knowledge of the Jewish religion by fostering the study of its history and
literature, giving popular courses of instruction, issuing publications,
establishing reading-circles, holding general assemblies, and by such other
means as may from time to time be found necessary and proper.” In response
to his suggestion, the Jewish literary societies of Philadelphia appointed a
“committee on organization,” which formulated plans. An agreement was
entered into with the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle for the use of
the general methods of the popular education process known as the
“Chautauqua System.” A Jewish society, national in its scope, was
then organized, with Dr. Berkowitz as chancellor. In the winter of 1893, the
society began the publication of a series of “course books” or
syllabi for general readers and members of reading-circles or study classes.
These guidebooks give syllabi of courses in Biblical and post-Biblical history
and literature, in the Hebrew language (correspondence method), and on Jewish
characters in fiction.
1893: “To Study Our Immigration” published today
described the debate in the House of Lords led by Lord Lyon Playfair over the
impact of Russian and Polish (Jewish) immigration in the United Kingdom and the
treatment of these immigrants in the United States
1895(14th of Adar, 5655): Purim
1895(14th of Adar, 5655):
Fifty-five-year-old English wine merchant Elie Camile Espir, the Bordeaux born
son of Esther Iffla and Jonas Espir, the husband of Sophie Neymarck and the
father of Ferdinand and Daniel Expir passed away today after which he was
buried at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1895: It was reported today that it will cost
$80,000 to build a new facility for Beth Israel Hospital which now using a
building on East Broadway owned by the Hebrew Free School
1895: Birthdate of Samuel Caplan, the native of
Russia, who became and an American author and editor for the Congress Bi-Weekly
1895: In “Emanu-El’s Fifty Years,” published today
described plans for the celebration of Temple Emanu-El’s fiftieth anniversary
which will be held on April 12, 13 and 14th. The article also provides a brief history of
the Reform Movement and the milestones in the history of New York’s leading
Reform congregation.
1896: Dr. Reuben Bierer, chief rabbi of Sofia,
announces that he considers Herzl to be the Messiah. The newspaper
“Ha-am” in Kolomea places itself at Herzl’s disposal.
1896: In London, 2
years before he was murdered by a blackmailer, Woolf Joel and his wife gave
birth to their only son, Geoffrey Joel.
1896: Theodore Herzl
described his first meeting with Reverend William Hechler in today’s diary
entry. Herzl described Hechler as an
enthusiastic Zionist who wants to introduce him to the various German leaders
who are friends of the Anglican minister.
1896: The world
trademark for State Express 555 cigarettes, a creating of Sir Albert Levy, “was
first registered” today “in Ireland
1896: In Pittsburgh,
PA, Anselm and Sophie Irene Loeb, the noted child welfare worker, were married
today.
1897: In Brooklyn,
Bella Kluger and Osca Kupferman gave birth to Pratt Institute trained “Murray
Kupferman the painter, landscape artist and creator of mural decorations.
https://www.invaluable.com/artist/kupferman-murray-bdm67epzoq/sold-at-auction-prices/
https://americanart.si.edu/artist/murray-kupferman-2743
1897: One day after
he had passed away, 90-year-old Samuel Honigbaum was buried today at the
“Plashet Jewish Cemetery” in London.
1897: The will of the
late Simon Goldenberg, who left an estate valued at $200,000 in real property
and $1,000,000 in personal property was filed for probate today.
1897: The Charity
Ball for the benefit of the Montefiore Home which is being sponsored by the
Young Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s League will take place this evening at Carnegie
Hall, under the leadership of Leon Hirsch, who is the group’s President.
1898: Funeral services for Moses Bruckheimer will be
held today at Beth Elohim in Brooklyn
1898: At today’s
meeting of the House of Commons Committee “inquiring into the evils of money lending,”
Sir George Lewis “condemned the business in the
strongest terms saying it frequently cost the victims.
2000 percent” and speaking as a Jew he could say
that the Jewish community “loathed and despised those
who engage in such activity.
1898: Today, Max Grumbacher, the son of German
immigrant Samuel Grumbacher who had settled in
Trenton, NJ where he opened a retail establishment,
opened “a small store on the first floor of first 22nd
West Market Street in York, PA which marked the
beginning of the BonTon Department Store.
1898: Fifteen thousand people are expected to attend
tonight’s annual Fête and Bal Champêtre at
Carnegie Hall sponsored by the Young Ladies’ and
Gentlemen’s League of the Montefiore Home for
Consumptives
1889: In Manhattan Jewish
immigrants “Josef Matlz and Taube Elzweig,” gave birth to Columbia trained
surgeon Maxwell “Max” Maltz, the author of Pyscho-Cybernetics and the husband
of Anne Maltz https://www.nytimes.com/1975/04/08/archives/dr-maxwell-maltz-dead-plastic-surgeon-and-author.html
1900(9th
of Adar II, 5660): Parashat Vayikra; Shabbat Zachor
1900: English author
Joseph Jacobs, the “editor of the Jewish Year Book and Literary Book” arrived
in New York today aboard the St. Paul and then went to the home of his host
Cyrus Sulzberger with whom he will stay while assisting “in the preparation of material
for a Jewish encyclopedia” which will be issued “by a leading publisher.”
1900: The triennial
meeting of the Council of Jewish Women which was founded in 1897 is scheduled
to come to an end in Cleveland today.
1901: “Jews in the
Roumanian Army” published today reported that “no Jewish soldier in the
Roumanian Army can be promoted to a commission, however brave and loyal he may
be” and that “no Jews are admitted into the military schools…”
1902(1st
of Adar II, 5662): Rosh Chodesh Adar II
1902(1st
of Adar II, 5662): Seventy-two-year-old author and social reformer Jenny Hirsch
died today in Berlin.
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/hirsch-jenny
1903: Former
President Grover Cleveland is staying at the home of Oscar Straus 5 West 76th
Street in New York.
1903: Solomon Alter purchased
the property at 350 Madison Street in New York City.
1904: According to
today’s dispatch from St. Petersburg, the Minister of the Interior Pleheve has
taken a hand in revising the list of reservists be called up so that of the 180
medical students called to duty, 110 are Jewish which has displeased the
Minister of War but has been with approval of “non-Jewish practitioners who
were only too glad to get their Jewish rivals out of the way.
1905(3rd
of Adar, 5665): Fifty-nine-year-old Elijah David Rabinowitz-Teomim (ADeReT), a
Lithuanian born Rabbi who made Aliyah at the turn of the century passed away
today and was buried on the Mount of Olives.
1905: Ernst
Gräfenberg earned his doctorate after studying medicine in Göttingen and
Munich. Another intellectual casualty of the Nazis, this doctor who had served
in the German Army in World War and who developed the IUD, would flee to the
United States in the 1930’s.
1906(13th
of Adar, 5666): Parashat Tetzaveh; Shabbat Zachor; Erev Purim
1906: Purim services
were held this evening at the West End Synagogue at the end of which every
worshipper made “his contribution to charity.”
1906:
Sixty-seven-year-old Eugene Richter, a German political leader who defended the
Jews during the growing waves of German anti-Semitism that marked the last
decades of the 19th century passed away.
1907: It was
announced tonight “that Mr. Hammerstein has obtained for the United States the
exclusive rights to three French Operas which he will produce early next season
at the Manhattan Opera House.
1907: “To Petition
Czar To Dissolve Duma” published today described the chaos centered a move to
have the Russian parliament recess for “several days’ so that newly created
Committee on Credentials could decide how treat those from “contested seats”
which included avowed anti-Semites who threatened violence in the southern part
of the Empire if they were not seated.
1908: Birthdate of
Fevel Greenberg, the native of “the Russian occupied region of Galicia” who
gained fame as Philip Rahv “the editor, author, reviewer for Partisan Review
and The New York Review of Books and Brandeis University English Professor.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1974/01/24/philip-rahv-19081973/
1909: Rabbi Eiseman
of the Seventy-second Street Synagogue officiated at the wedding of Mary Bister
and William Greenbaum, “both of whom are deaf-mutes” in an Orthodox ceremony
which he first read in English and then communicated to the couple using “finger
language.”
1910: Birthdate of
Richmond, VA native Amelia Held Ullman the wife of Gilbert Victor.
1910: It was reported
toda that Moses J. Harris, the NewYork-bornn son of Flora Misch and Joseph
Harris and Brooklyn lawyer has been appointed to serve as Police Magistrate by
the Mayor of New York.
1910: Karl Lueger,
the sixty-five-year-old anti-Semitic mayor of Vienna passed away.
1911: Birthdate of
New York native Harold “Hy” Lefft the NYU basketball player who was the older
brother of NYU basketball player Joe Lefft.
1911: Birthdate of
Odessa native Charles Robert “Buckets” Goldenberg the University of Wisconsin
star who went on to play for 12 years with the Green Bay Packers. (Editor’s
Note – according to some records he was born in April.)
http://www.packers.com/history/hall-of-famers/goldenberg-charles-buckets.html
1911: Jerome Kern’s
“La Belle Paree” starring Al Jolson, opened at the Winter Garden Theatre.
1912: “Interesting
information concerning the growth of the movement back to the farms on the part
of Jewish citizens, and especially immigrants, is contained in the twelfth
annual report of the Jewish Agricultural and Industrial Aid Society” which
“shows that the Jewish immigrant, contrary to the prevailing idea that he hugs
the Atlantic seaboard, is inclined, if given a chance, to move more and more to
the farmland.”
1913(1st
of Adar II, 5673): Rosh Chodesh Adar
1913(1st
of Adar II, 5673): Forty-two-year-old Chicagoan Victor B Strelitz, a member of
the firm of Strelitz Brothers and the husband of Sarah Strelitz passed away
“suddenly in New York City” today.
1913: Birthdate of
Canadian composer John Jacob Weinzweig. The son of Jewish immigrants from
Poland, he received his first formal study of music in mandolin at the
Workmen’s Circle Peretz School.
1913: The funeral of
Pauline Phillips, the wife of Herman Philips is scheduled to take place today
followed by burial at Waldheim Cemetery.
1914: Architect and
engineer Maurice Blumenthal, the Brooklyn born son of Jacob Hersh Blumenthal
and Dinah Judith Hyman Blumenthal, and his wife Miriam Blumenthal gave birth to
Pauline Blumenthal who died two days later.
1915: The American
Jewish Relief Committee for Suffers from the War” made its first detailed
report public today sowing that it has collected approximately $550,000 of
which $472,000 has been sent to various countries in Europe.
1915: The
Frankfurter Zeitung published a letter that had first appeared in the Hambruger
Israelitische Familienblatt written by a Jewish soldier, who with his
brother had joined the German Army even though they had been denied German
citizenship. According to the letter, one brother had been killed in battle and
the surviving brother wanted his family to know that it was not a piece of
paper that made them Germans. It was their “sentiments that made them
Germans.” Feeling this way, they could
not let others fight while they remained spectators. “The hero’s death is better than shame.”
1916: With the
passing of the Military Service Act in 1916 the period of voluntary enlistment
came to an end as did the publication of the list entitled “Our Honour Record
of All Jews who are serving” the last one of which was published.
1916: In Rochford,
Essex, Isidore and Helen Ostrer gave birth to Pamela Helen Ostrer, the English actress
known as Pamela Mason after she married actor James Mason.
1916: “According to
the ninth annual report of the American Jewish Committee issued” today “by
President Louis Marshall” “nearly $4,000,000 was spent for charity last year by
Jewish organizations in New York State.”
1917: “The Federation
for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies issued…an appeal” which was
supported by President Felix Warburg and Executive Director Edwin Golwaser “to
Jews to do away with the long-established practice of sending elaborate floral
tributes to the dead on the grounds that the money so spent could be used to
greater advantage in caring for the poor.”
1918: Birthdate of
Isaac Rosenfeld, the Chicago born author who wrote Passage from Home in
1946.
https://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/april29/zipperstein-steven-042909.html
1918 At today’s
meeting of the Jewish Ministers’ Association of America being held at the
Girls’ Hebrew Technical School Moses Hyamson called for “unified action on the
part of the Orthodox congregation to
provide for the welfare of Jewish soldiers” at camps in the United States and
at the Front and the rabbis demonstrated their support for the war effort by
pledging “their support for a campaign which the Independ Order of B’rith
Abraham is conducting to raise one million dollars in thrift and war savings
stamps.”
1918: Warner Brothers released its first major film
“My Four Years in Germany.” The corporate name honors the four founding
Warner brothers, Jewish brothers who emigrated from Poland to London, Ontario,
Canada, Harry Warner (1881–1958), Albert Warner (1883–1967), Sam Warner
(1887–1927) and Jack L. Warner (1892–1978).
1919: At the Strand Theatre in Providence, Rhode
Island, Archibald Silverman presided over the memorial service honoring the
memory of Colonel Harry Cutler who passed away last year in London which was
attended by hundreds of Jewish and Gentile residents of the state including
Rabbi Samuel Gup of Temple Beth-El who characterized Cutler as “a God
intoxicated man.”
1919: Tonight, at the
Harmonie Club in Manhattan, “the Executive Committee of the Isaac M. Wise
Centenary launched a campaign to raise $300,000 for the support of the Union of
American Hebrew Congregations and the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati” in
response “to the appeals of Henry Morgenthau and Jacob Schiff for a united
effort to spread the ideals of Judaism.”
1920: In the wake of
Arab attacks on Jewish citizens, Major-General Louis Bols, the Officer
Administering the Government of Palestine, issued an order prohibiting further
demonstrations in Jerusalem.
1920: In the House of
Commons, when Major W. Ormsby-Gore asked he Prime Minister if “any special
instructions had been sent to the commander-in-chief in Palestine in the wake
of anti-Jewish “excesses+ in Metulah and the Galilee, “Secretary Williamson of the
War Office” replied he had “no information of such excesses.
1921: Birthdate of
Charlotte Zucker, the wife of Burton Charles Zucker, “the mother directors
Jerry and David Zucker and actress Susan Breslau
http://articles.latimes.com/2007/sep/08/local/me-passings8
1922: Three justices
of the Supreme Court of New York – M. Warley Platzek, Edward Lazansky and
Irving Lehman were among those who made contributions today to the “Wood Wilson
Foundation fund of $1,000,000.”
1923: It was
announced today in a meeting held in the home of Felix Warburg that “the work
of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, which has provided relief
in more than forty war-stricken countries during the last eight years, will be
finished Jan. 1, 1925.”
1924: In New York
City, attorney Charles Bailey “and the former Phyllis Hedley gave birth to
Judith Bailey who gained fame as Judith Jones, the literary editor whose
accomplishments included rescuing “Anne Frank’s diary from a US publisher’s
rejection pile.”
http://www.timesofisrael.com/us-editor-who-rescued-anne-franks-diary-dies-at-93/
1925(14th
of Adar, 5685): Purim
1925: In New York
Charles and Elizabeth Kabrin Limmer gave birth to Abraham Louis Limmer who
gained fame as Lou “Boomie” Limmer the major league first baseman who overcame
the effects of having broken his neck and suffered temporary blindness “while
sliding into third base in the Western League” to play for the Philadelphia
Athletics in 1951 and 1954.
1925: “Wood Love” a
silent comedy written by Hans Neumann was released today in Germany
1926: Today, at the
Astor Hotel, during her address at the sixth annual convention of the Jewish
Women’s Organizations, “Mrs. Leory S. Blatner, Field Secretary, New York State
Federation of Temple Sisterhood, launched a spirited attack on the modern Jewish
mother who prepared her daughter for a wedding and not for marriage…”
1927: The Committee
on Civics and Communal Affairs of the Council of Jewish Women arranged for
today’s visit to City Hall in Philadelphia which is part of “a series of trips
through various places of interest in and hear Philadelphia with the idea of
acquainting” members “with the many places of importance in” this historic
city.
1927: Mrs. W.T.
Andress presided over the opening meeting of the Dallas Section in Max J.
Rosenfield Hall.
1927: Birthdate of
Bronx native and Manhattan High School of Aviation graduate Louis “Lou” Limmer,
the WW II Army Corps veteran who played first base for the Philadelphia
Athletics of the American League and was part of Jewish trifecta when he came
to bat against Saul Rogovin, the Jewish pitcher for the Detroit Tigers whose
battery-mate was Joe Ginsberg, the Jewish Catcher.
1928(18th
of Adar 5688): Parashat Ki Tisa; Shabbat Parah
1928: “The arrival of
Zionist leader Nachum Sokolov, at Belgrade today was the occasion for a feast
between Jews and Serbs.”
1929(28th
of Adar I, 5689): Seventy-seven-year-old German Jurist Victor Gabriel Ehrenberg
passed away.
1929: “Shakedown”
directed by William Wyler and produced by Samuel Goldwyn “was released in
parallel silent and sound versions.”
1929: In New York, Lewis
Steiger, the proprietor of men’s clothing business and his wife Rebecca gave
birth to Samuel Steiger “a New Yorker who transformed himself into a Western
rancher, served five terms in the House as a Republican from Arizona…” (As
reported by William Yardley)
1929: Reports
published today described the upcoming opening of “the Warner Brothers’
ambitious Vitaphone production which will open at the Winter Garden, featuring
Dolores Costello and George O’Brien” which is a cinematic treatment of the
Biblical story.
1929: Birthdate of
“Stephen Myron Schwebel is an American jurist and expert on international law.”
1930: It was reported
today that Dr. Israel Goldstein has announced the formation of “a committee of
one hundred leading Jews” to organize celebrations throughout the United States
to mark 20th anniversary of the formation of Young Judaea, the
Zionist youth group.
1932: In Great
Britain, David and Eleanor Montague gave birth to businessman and Laborite Michael Montague, Baron Montague of Oxford
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-lord-montague-of-oxford-1124327.html
1932: It was reported
today that when Benjamin Cardozo is sworn in next week as an Associate Justice
of the Supreme Court, there will finally be enough Justices to constitute a
quorum so that the Court can hear the government’s appeal of a consent decree
by the lower court in an anti-trust case involving the nation’s
meatpackers. The death of Justice Holmes
and the recusal of Justices Hughes, Stone and Sutherland had meant that there
were not enough Justices to hear the case.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F10A11FF345B13738DDDA80994DB405B828FF1D3
1933: Michael Siegel, a Jewish lawyer who
complained about the police “is forced to walk through Munich barefoot while
carrying a sign reading ‘I will never complain to the police again.’”
1933: Victor
Klemperer writes in his diary “Hitler elected as Chancellor. What I had called
terror was only a mild prelude. . . . It is amazing how everything collapses .
. . prohibitions and acts of violence. And with it, on streets and radio,
unrestrained propaganda. On Saturday I heard a piece of Hitler’s speech in
Konsigsberg. I understood only a few words. But the tone! The unctuous roaring
bark, the bark, really, of a clergyman. . .. How long will I be able to retain
my professorship?”
1933: In Germany,
premiere of Liebelei directed by Max Ophüls, based on a play of the same name
by Arthur Schnitzler.
1934: “Jail Birds of
Paradise” a Three Stooges comedy and directed by Al Boasberg was released in
the United States today.
1935: “Nearly 700
women from all sections of the nation gathered in New Orleans for the opening
meeting today of the fourteenth triennial convention of the National Council of
Jewish Women.”
1936: “Two Jewish
students, one them cast as Shylock, withdrew from a classroom production of
Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice” at Hackensack (NJ) High School today as
Rabbi Irving Silman of Hackensack Hebrew Institute continued a campaign to have
the play stricken from the sophomore English course at the school because the
character of Shylock ‘is the foulest slander ever penned by the hand of
genius.’”
1936: A delegation
from the Federation of Polish Jews in America met with Secretary of State
Cordell Hall an asked him “to use the influence of the United States to stop
the Polish Parliament from adopting a law “to prohibit Jewish ritual slaughter
in” that country.
1936: In New York,
the motion introduced by “Aldermen Morton Moses and Saul Frassler to grant
holidays to Jewish employees during Passover” was sent to committee for
consideration.
1937: “Chicken Heart”
written by Arch Oboler was broadcast for the first time on the radio suspense
show,
1937: Despite
attempts by the Polish foreign minister to have Jews leave for Palestine, “the
Council of Polish Organizations in the United States of America denied” today
“that Poland as forcing Jews to emigrate” and “it declared the present
emigration of about 80,000 Polish Jews annually wa normal.
1937: The Palestine Post reported from London
that Viscount Cranborne, MP, the Foreign Under-Secretary told Commander Oliver
Locker-Lampson, MP, that the population of Transjordan was about 300,000 and
that the Palestine Mandate still applied there, except for the provisions which
included the establishment of the Jewish National Home. The policy in regard to
the prospects of the Jewish settlement in Transjordan “remained
unchanged”. Thomas Williams, MP, asked the Colonial Secretary why the
recent British military expenditures were charged to the Palestine government,
while they might have been caused by the necessities of the international
situation.
1937:
“Franklin Forgery Exposed by Beard” published today described Professor Charles
A. Beards’ conclusion that “the anti-Semitic ‘Prophecy’ attributed to Benjamin
Franklin and distributed in Germany within the last few days by the government
news service” was “a barefaced forgery.”
1937: The Palestine Post reported that
Jerusalem Arabs welcomed Moslem pilgrims returning by train from the pilgrimage
to Mecca.
1938:
The day after the Germans marched into Austira, Fritz Grünbaum and Karl Farkas
acted for the last time in Simplicissimus before trying to flee to
Czechoslovakia.
1938: “Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels”
visited Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp.
1938: Birthdate of Ron Mix. Mix was an oddity – a Jewish professional
football player. He was all-star offensive tackle with the San Diego
Chargers and Oakland Raiders. He was inducted into the Hall of
Fame in 1979. Just to be on the safe side, Mix went to law school at night.
1939: “The Ice Follies of 1939,” a musical
comedy directed by Reinhold Schünzel and produced by Harry Rapf was released in
the United States today.
1939: “Striking a ‘Nazi persecution of
Catholics as well as Jews in Germany,’ William Cardinal O’Connel, dean of the
Roman Catholic hierarchy in” the United States “today set March 19 as ‘Catholic
refugee Sunday.’”
1940: Rabbi Wolf Gold, Chairman of the Mizrachi
World Center said today in Jerusalem that “the recent British restriction of
sales of land to Jews in Pales makes a scrap of paper of the Balfour
Declaration…”
1941(11th of Adar, 5701): Austrian
born Salomea “Sadie” Brenner Kriendler, the husband of Krieve Kriendler with
she had eight children – Augusta, Anna, Jack, Eunice, Harold, Maxwell, Beatrice
and Irving – passed away today in Miami after which she was buried in Mount
Lebanon Cemetery in Glendale, NY.
1941: Harpo and Chico Marx testified during the
trial of Joseph Schenck, who along with Joseph H. Moskowitz has been charged
with cheating the government out of $412,000 in income taxes.
1942(21st of Adar, 5702):
Seventy-five-year-old San Francisco native and University of California
graduate Julius Wangenheim, “a bridge engineer for the Southern Pacific
Railroad and San Diego wholesale grocer who was instrumental in developing
Balboa Park and other civic endeavors in San Diego passed away today.
https://www.sandiego.gov/public-library/locations/wangenheim/juliuswangenheim
https://pancalarchive.org/wangenheimjulius/
1943: Emanuel Zisman, his mother and his
sister, along with the rest of the Jews living in Plovdiv, Bulgaria were
rounded up for a planned deportation to the death camps.
1943: Bulgaria refused to release 48,000 of its
Jews to the Germans. This became known to the Bulgarians as a “miracle of
the Jewish people.”
1943: More than 1,000 Jews in Plovdiv,
Bulgaria, Emanuel Zisman, the future Israeli ambassador to Bulgaria, his mother
and his sister “were taken from their homes concentrated in the Jewish quarter,
near to the school. But during the day the public pressure was so strong that
the tsar of Bulgaria, Boris III, decided to cancel the deportation. It was a
long day but a very, very happy night.”
1943: Last of two performances of “We Will
Never Die” took place at Madison Square Garden in New York City
1944: Adolf Eichmann and his staff met at
Mauthausen concentration camp to work out the deportation of over 750,000 Jews
from Hungary.
1944(15th of Adar, 5704): Shushan
Purim
1944(15th of Adar, 5704): After
having been captured by the Gestapo on March 7, thanks to betrayal by an
unknown Pole, today is thought to be the day on which Emanuel Ringelbaum, the creator
of “Oyneg Shabbos” which created the “so-called Ringelbaum Archive” that
chronicled life in the Warsaw Ghetto was thought to have been murdered by the
Nazis.
https://archives.jdc.org/exhibits/in-memoriam/emanuel-ringelblum/
https://www.yadvashem.org/education/educational-materials/books/who-will-write.html
1945: Major Ronald Edmond Balfour, “the son of
Lieutenant Colonel Kenneth Robert Balfour and May Eleanor Balfour (née
Broadwood) of Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England” a British officer serving with
the “Monuments Men” died in a shell-burst, while operating beyond the Allied
front line at Kleve (Cleves), seeking out artworks to be protected from war
damage” after which he was buried in Reichswald Forest War Cemetery.
https://www.monumentsmenfoundation.org/the-heroes/the-monuments-men/balfour-maj.-ronald-edmund
1945(25th of Tevet, 5705): Thirty-year-old
Czech journalist Joseph Taussig, the son of Otto and Frederike (Federer) Tausig
and younger brother of journalist František (Franta) Taussig died today at
Flossenburg just five weeks before the camp was liberated by the United States
Army.
1946: General Omar N. Bradley, the commander of
U.S. ground forces in Europe during WW II and the current administrator of
Veteran Affairs paid tribute” today “to the war record of men of the Jewish
faith…”
1947: In what seems to be a public change in
policy by Jewish leaders, 5 mayors in the martial law zone, including the Mayor
of Tel Aviv issued a strongly worded statement warning against any new outbreak
of terrorism. “Acts of desperation do
nothing but harm to the community and are calculated to bring about the
disruption of our organized life. We
urgently warn the perpetrators and those who bear responsibility for them to
cease all acts of terrorism, murder and violence against Jews and Britons. Do not destroy the last possibility of maintaining
the wholeness of our organization.”
1947: “Twenty-one American citizens, including
a woman named Hanna Herschkowitz, as well as two Norwegians with
American…papers and two French nationals, all of whom arrived aboard the
unauthorized immigrant ship Abril, were remanded by a magistrate in
Haifa today. They will be held for a fortnight pending investigations into
charges arising from the ship’s arrival in Palestine waters.” Two American newspapermen – Wallace Litwin
and Albert L. Hrschkoff are among those being detained. Joseph Kaserman, an attorney from Haifa has
been retained to defend the crew and protect the rights of the ship’s
registered owner, the Tyre Shipping Company of New York City. The Abril
is also known as the SS Ben Hecht, a ship under Irgun control that had
been carrying 599 Jewish refugees trying to land in Palestine.
1947: Daniel Frisch a leading member of the ZOA
and the Zionist General Council said tonight, “I am persuaded by consultations
and assurances obtained back by overwhelming Jewish as well as non-Jewish
sentiment, that the United States Government will never give its consent to a
solution of the Palestine problem which would tend to rob the Jewish people of
its only path leading to rehabilitation and life.”
1948: Birthdate of retired government agent and
private investigator Robert Levinson who has been held by the Iranians since
2007.
1948: A “company of the 1st Battalion commanded
by Assaf Simchoni acted against an Arab gang which had settled in Kafr Kanna,
on the Tiberias-Nazareth road. Information had been received that the village
had become a center for gangs headed by a certain ‘Ibrahim’ that had carried
out many attacks in the Lower Galilee and the Zevulun Valley. Among these was a
gang that had previously been active in Shefaram, but had moved to Kafr Kanna.
Born in 1922, Simchoni would rise to the rank of Major-General in the IDF. In
1956, he “commanded the Sinai Campaign and was killed in an airplane accident
at the end of the war.”
1949: During Operation Uvda “an aerial
photographer discovered that the police station guarding Ras al-Naqb was abandoned,
and the Negev Brigade set out towards Umm Rashrash through Ras al-Naqb
1949: At 15:00 the
Negev Brigade reached the abandoned policed station at Umm Rashrash (the future
site of Eilat) followed two hours later by the Golani Brigade.
1949: The conquest of
the southern Negev and Um Rashrash (Eilat) in March 1949 ended the War of
Independence.
1949: In Israel, the
Provisional Government gave way to the first Cabinet of the new State.
1949: Moshe Sharett
completed his term as Foreign Minister for the Provisional Government which had
been in power since the creation of the state in May of 1948,
1949: Moshe Sharett
begins serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs in Israel’s first elected
government.
1949: Haim-Moshe
Shapira replaced Yitzhak Gruenbaum as Internal Affairs Minister.
1949: Aharon Zisling
completed his service as Israel’s first Minister of Agriculture.
1950(21st
of Adar, 5710): Fifty-one-year-old publisher and editor of Variety Sidne
Silverman, the son of Hattie Freeman and Sime Silverman and husband of Marie
Saxon with who he had one son Syd Silverman, the third publisher of Variety.
1950: In Tel Aviv Dov
Fruchtman, a teacher of literature and his wife gave birth to Nita Ben-Dov (nee
Fruchtman a Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of
Haifa
1950: “The Vicious
Year” written by N. Richard Nash was released in the United States today.
1951:
An estimated 200 million dollars’ worth of Jewish property was then taken over
by the state. “At a secret
session of the Iraqi Parliament passed Law No. 5 of 1951 under which “the
assets of all Jews who were leaving and had denounced Iraqi citizenship –
103,866 by that time – were frozen and put under Iraqi Government
control.” This
law actually was applied to the more than 123,000 Jews who had been forced to
flee during the years 1948-1951. The Jews still trapped in
Iran were not only stateless, they were now totally impoverished.
1951: In Los Angeles, Albert and Ruth (Feldman) Zugsmith
gave birth to real estate executive Michael Albert Zugsmith who was also a
“member of real estate and construction cabinet Jewish Federation” amd a
“guardian of the Jewish Home for the Aging.”
1951: After 48 performances, the curtain came down a
second Broadway production of Frank Loesser’s “Where’s Charley?
1952(13th of Adar, 5712): Fast of Esther
1952: Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup
in Cuba and appoints himself as the “provisional president”. This was
Batista’s second time to serve as president.
It was during this second presidency that Meyer Lanksy negotiated the
deal with Batista that gave “the mob” monopoly control over the island’s
gambling operations in return for a down payment of 3 million dollars and a
fifty percent cut of the profits. (In
those days, a million dollars was really worth a million dollars.).
1952: The Jerusalem Post reported the cabinet’s
decision that wages earned by Arabs in the employ of the state, municipalities
and other public institutions, and the prices paid for Arab produce would be
equal to those paid to the Jews. Mr. Palmon, the prime minister’s adviser on
Arab affairs, stated that among Israeli Arabs the collection of income tax was
practically nonexistent. They paid only a negligible property tax. The cabinet
had also approved the Pensions and Rehabilitation of the Victims of the War of
Independence bill.
1957(7th
of Adar II, 5717): Sixty-six-year-old screenwriter and author Samuel Ornitz who
was blacklisted as a member of the “Hollywood Ten” passed away today.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAornitz.htm
1959:
Birthdate of Aital Selinger, the native of Haifa volleyball player who twice
represented the Netherlands in the Summer Olympics.
1959:
The original Broadway production of “Sweet Bird of Youth” starring Paul Newman
opened today at the Martin Beck Theatre.
1960(11th
of Adar, 5720): Ta’anit Esther observed for the last time during the Presidency
of Dwight Eisenhower.
1961:
“God Naked in the World” produced by Aaron Rosenberg was released in the United
States today.
1963:
Birthdate of Frederick Jay Rubin, known as Rick Rubin. Rick Rubin is one of the two guys behind legendary hip-hop label
Def Jam.
1965:
Neil Simon’s play ”The Odd Couple” opened on Broadway.
1965:
“Music by Israeli composers will be heard on the Composers Showcase concert at
Philharmonic Hall tonight.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1965/03/10/94961689.html?pageNumber=49
1966:
Birthdate of actor Stephen Mailer, son of author Norman Mailer.
1967(28th
of Adar I, 5727): Seventy-nine-year-old Charles Polakoff, the Russian born son
of Louis and Annie Polakoff who with his father formed L. Polakoff and Company,
the Buffalo based “wholesale and retail dealers in coal and ice” and raised
three children – Gerson, Leah and Joseph – with his wife Rebecca Polakoff
passed away today.
1969:
The Israel Chamber Music Orchestra, with Rudolf Serkin as the featured soloist
is scheduled to complete a tour of the United States that began on January 25.
1970: Barbra Streisand recorded “The Singer” & “I Can Do
It”
1970:
The Knesset passed the “Who is a Jew?” bill which defined a Jew as
one born to a Jewish mother or a convert to the Jewish religion.
1971:
“Get Carter” a slick British crime film produced by Michael Klinger and
photographed by Wolfgang Suschitzky.
1972:
“Silent Running,” a sci-fi thriller featuring Ron Rifkin, produced by Michael
Gruskoff
1973(6th
of Adar II, 5733): Seventy-two-year-old movie director Robert Siodmak, another
of those whose career in Europe was cut short by the Nazis but who managed to
escape to the United States before the war, passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/movies/robert-siodmak-retrospective-at-film-forum.html?_r=0
http://sensesofcinema.com/2003/great-directors/siodmak/
1974:
Golda Meir formed a new government that included Moshe Dayan and Shimon
Peres. The government was formed in
response to a new threat from Syria and would prove to be the shortest lived
government in the history of Israel.
1974:
Abba Eban completed his term as Minister of Foreign Affairs in Israel’s 15th
government and began serving as the Minister of Foreign Affairs in Israel’s 16th
government.
1974:
Aharon Uzan replaced Shimon Peres as Communications Ministers
1974:
Yitzhak Rafael replaced Zerach Warhaftig as the head of the Ministry of
Religious Services.
1974:
Yehoshua Rabinovitz replaced Ze’ev Sherf as Minster of Housing and
Construction.
1974: Birthdate Keren Ann Zeidel the famous
singer-song writer born at Caearea.
1977: This evening,
the ambassadors of Egypt, Pakistan and Iran “along with a few D.C. officials,
including the police commander Joseph O’Brien” met with the Hanifis who had
seized the District Building, the headquarters of B’nai B’rith and the Islamic
Center of Washington.
1977: The Jerusalem Post reported that US President Jimmy Carter
suggested that the final Israeli borders should include only “some minor
adjustments in the 1967 borders.” He added, however, that it was important
to recognize the difference between the “legal borders” and
“defense lines” which would enable Israel to defend itself.
1978: “The Fury” a film version of the novel by
the same name starring Kirk Douglas and Amy Irving was released in the United
States today.
1979(11th of Adar, 5739): Shabbat
Zachor
1979: After having meet with President Sadat in
Egypt, President Carter is scheduled to fly Israel to meet with Prime Minister
Begin.
1979: Four terrorists were killed in Tel Aviv
today.
1980: Yitzhak Shamir completed his term as 6th
Speaker of the Knesset today.
1980: Yitzhak Shamir began serving as Foreign
Minister.
1980: Jean
Harris murdered Doctor Herman Tarnower, the Scarsdale diet doctor.
1985(17th of Adar,
5745): Forty-one-year-old David Carey, “a producer and actor in the Yiddish
theatre” and “a co-founder with Raymond Ariel of the Shalom Yiddish Musical
Theatre” passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1985/03/12/arts/david-carey-41-a-producer-and-actor-in-yiddish-theater.html
1986(29th of Adar I,
5746): Eighty-three-year-old Myron Cohen, the comedian noted for his use of
dialect in his humor passed away today.
1986(29th of Adar I,
5746): Ninety-five-year-old Rosh Yeshiva Yaako Kamenetsky, author of Emes
leYaakov al HaShas (“Truth to Jacob”) passed away.
1987: The New York Times
featured reviews of Memoirs of a Fortunate Jew: An Italian Story by Dan
Vittorio Serge and The Italians and the Holocaust: Persecution, Rescue,
Survival by Susan Zucotti.
1987: Five authors
of books with Jewish themes, published in 1986, were honored today at the
Eighth Annual Present Tense/Joel H. Cavior Book Awards luncheon, sponsored by
Present Tense magazine and the American Jewish Committee, and held at the
committee’s headquarters. The winners
were: Biography/Autobiography: Victor Perera, ”Rites: A Guatemalan Boyhood”
(Harcourt Brace Jovanovich). Fiction: Art Spiegelman, ‘Maus: A Survivor’s
Tale” (Pantheon Books). History: Bernard Lewis, ”Semites and Anti-Semites: An
Inquiry Into Conflict and Prejudice” (W. W. Norton & Company). Jewish
Religious Thought: David Weiss Halivni, ”Midrash, Mishnah, and Gemara: The Jewish
Predilection for Justified Law” (Harvard University Press). General
Nonfiction: Lesley Hazleton, ”Jerusalem, Jerusalem” (Atlantic Monthly
Press). Elie Wiesel was honored with a
special lifetime achievement citation for his ”extraordinary efforts to rescue
the Holocaust from historical and literary oblivion and to dramatize the plight
of Soviet Jews and other oppressed people.
1989: “The Adventures of Baron
Munchausen” a fantasy comedy with music by Michael Kamen was released in the
United States today.
1990(13th of Adar,
5750): Parashat Tetzaveh; Shabbat Zachor; Erev Purim
1991: Susanne J. Schwartz and Colin M. Davidson
were married this evening. The bride’s
father is Richard A. Jacobs, the president of the Joseph Jacobs Organization,
an advertising agency that was founded by his father the late Joseph Jacobs.
1992: In an article
entitled “Menachem Begin, Guerrilla Leader Who
Became Peacemaker,” published the day after he passed away James Feron
described Menachem Begin as “the Israeli Prime Minister who made peace with
Egypt” after living much of his life in the opposition. A Jewish underground
leader before Israel gained independence in 1948; he openly fought the
established Zionist leadership of the struggle against British rule. Then for
nearly three decades, he headed Israel’s major opposition party. Ultimately and
to many Israelis, surprisingly, his minority bloc ousted the Labor Party, which
had governed continuously in the three decades since statehood, and Mr. Begin,
as party leader, became Prime Minister. He was to govern an ever more divided
and troubled nation. Mr. Begin, who led Israel from May 1977 until he resigned
as Prime Minister in 1983, stretched the national mood from great pride to deep
dismay. He guided the nation to a peace treaty with Egypt, the first such pact
with an Arab country. But he also presided over a bitterly divisive war against
Palestinian guerrillas in Lebanon.” The treaty with Egypt, which brought Mr.
Begin a shared 1978 Nobel Peace Prize with President Anwar el-Sadat,
represented a high point in his political leadership while the war in Lebanon
in 1982 and the stalemate that followed, with its steady toll of dead and
wounded, were its low point.
1996:
New York City Mayor Giuliani visited Israel.
1996(19th
of Adar, 5656): Oscar nominated movie and television producer Ross Hunter
passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/12/movies/ross-hunter-film-producer-is-dead-at-75.html
1996:
Helène Aylon’s “The Liberation of G-d” was shown for the first time in
the New York Jewish Museum’s exhibit “Too Jewish?: Challenging Traditional
Identities.” The work, which took
six years to create, was made by covering every page of the five books of the
Torah with transparent parchment, on which Aylon marked problematic passages
with a pink pen. The marked passages were mostly those considered degrading to
women, but also included negative references to homosexuality. This work was
accompanied by commentary on the marked passages from a spectrum of Jewish
scholars and rabbis. “Liberation” was typical of Aylon’s work in
combining Jewish and social justice themes.
1997:
The New York Times reported that the ownership of The Chattanooga
Times is being transferred from the four grandchildren of Adolph S. Ochs,
who bought the paper in 1878 and remained its publisher until 1935, to his 13
great-grandchildren. The family said it did not anticipate any shift in the
Tennessee newspaper’s management or direction as a result of the change in
ownership. ”It is part of an orderly transfer of responsibility to our
children, and we make it with the utmost faith that they will sustain and
enrich” the family’s commitment to the paper, said Ruth S. Holmberg, who
remains the chairman of The Chattanooga Times and is one of the four
current owners. In addition to Mrs. Holmberg, the other three owners are Arthur
Ochs Sulzberger, Marian S. Heiskell and Dr. Judith P. Sulzberger. All are in
their 70’s, while their children range in age from 32 to 53. The four grandchildren
of Mr. Ochs are also the trustees of four trusts that own a controlling stake
in The New York Times Company. Mr. Sulzberger is also the chairman of the Times
Company. Although Mr. Ochs bought The New York Times in 1896, The
Chattanooga Times remained separate from the Times Company.
1998(12th
of Adar, 5758): Seventy-four-year Hayim David HaLevi, the Sephardi Chief Rabbi
for Tel Aviv and Jaffa passed way today. A native of Jerusalem, he served in
the IDF during the War for Independence before following a rabbinical career to
which this blog cannot do justice.
1998:
The new building of the Jewish Museum of Greece was inaugurated today.
1999:
The first Australian production of Harold Pinter’s “Betrayal” opened at the
Sydney Theatre Company today.
2000:
Barbra Streisand performed for the second and final time at the Sydney Football
Stadium.
2001:
It was reported today that Senator Hillary Clinton and former President Clinton
are “stonewalling” the FBI in its investigation into Bill’s pardon “of four
convicted swindlers from an upstate Hasidic village in a scandal labeled
“Pardongate” which is not to be confused with President Clinton’s pardon of
Marc Rich which came on the last day of his presidency following a sizable
contribution to his library fund.
2002: Israeli helicopters destroyed Palestinian
leader Yasser Arafat’s office in Gaza City, hours after 11 Israelis were killed
in a suicide bombing in a cafe across the street from Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon’s residence in Jerusalem.
2003: Yaakov Edri begins serving as Deputy
Minister of Public Security.
2004: “A conference titled ‘Jacques Faitlovitch
and the Jews of Ethiopia’” which was organized by the Centre de recherche
français de Jérusalem in collaboration with Ben-Zvi Institute and Tel-Aviv
University “to mark the centennial day of Jacques Faitlovitch’s first trip to
discover the Falashas” opened today.
2005: New York City officials today said that
“President Bush is sending Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to represent the United
States in Jerusalem next week for the opening of the new museum at the Yad
Vashem Holocaust memorial…”
2006: The Conservative movement decided to
postpone until December 2006 making a final decision on recognizing gay
marriage and allowing homosexuals to be ordained as rabbis, a move that is
threatening to split the movement.
2007: Shabbat Parah
2007: The Tel Aviv Museum hosts a gala concert
in honor of American composer Steve Reich.
2007: “John Zorn’s Masada Quartet performed one
of their last concerts at Lincoln Center today.
2007: “Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, an alleged Al
Qaeda operative reported to be third in command under Osama bin Laden, claimed
responsibility, before his Combatant Status Review Tribunal, for the murder of
Daniel Pearl” whom he claimed to have beheaded.
2008: An exhibition styled “Lucien Freud: The
Painter’s Etchings” at the Museum of Modern of Art comes to an end.
2008: A screening of a film based on Constantine’s Sword: The Church and the
Jews: A History takes place
at The National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.
2009: “Irena’s
Vow,” starring Tovah Feldshuh opens at the Walter Kerr Theatre in New York
City.
2009(14th
Adar, 5769): Purim
2009(14th
of Adar, 5769): One day before his 92nd birthday day New York real
estate developer Aaron Gural, he NYU trained accountant and son of Meyer and
Rose Guralnick passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/14/business/14gural.html
2009: Sherwin B.
Nuland, a clinical professor of surgery at Yale University and the author
of The Uncertain Art: Thoughts on a Life in Medicine and the forthcoming
The Soul of Medicine: Tales from the Bedside, presents the inaugural
Stephen E. Straus Distinguished Lecture in the Science of Complementary and
Alternative Medicine, “Chinese Medicine, Western Science and
Acupuncture,” at the National Institutes of Health.
2009:
Charles
Zentai, an 87-year-old man accused of killing a Jewish teenager in Hungary
during World War II asked an Australian court today to prevent his extradition
to Hungary, and claimed the results of a lie detector test prove he had nothing
to do with the death.
2010: The CJH, YUM, Program in Holocaust and Human
Rights Studies at Cardozo Law School is scheduled to present “Genocide and
Responsibility to Protect” during which a panel of scholars and
practitioners will discuss The Responsibility to Protect (“RtoP” or
“R2P”), a new international security and human rights norm designed
to address the international community’s failure to prevent and stop genocides,
war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.
2010(24th
of Adar): Thirty-eight-year-old Actor Corey Haim passed away.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/11/arts/11haim.html
2010: The 121st
annual convention of the Central Conference of American Rabbis came to a close
today.
2010: “The Game
Change” based on the book of the same name co-authored by Mark Halperin and
featuring John Rothman had its public debut today on HBO.
2010: French
premiere of “La Rafle” or “The Round Up a moved “based on the true story of a
young Jewish boy living through “the mass arrest Jews by French (not German)
police in Paris in 1942.
2011: The NJDC is scheduled to host a reception
honoring Kenneth R. Feinberg an American attorney specializing in mediation who
is currently overseeing the U.S. government’s response to claims arising from
the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
2011: The Israeli Opera is scheduled to host the
premiere “of the tumultuous Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (Katerina Izmaylova), by
the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, directed by Yulia Pevzner, based on a
version staged by Irina Molostova, a Ukrainian stage director who first
directed it in a joint production of the Israeli Opera and the Kirov Opera
House in 1997.”
2011: Ruth Ellen
Gruber is scheduled to deliver a lecture entitled “From Persona Non Grata to
the Present: An American Jewish Journalist’s View of Poland’s Transformation”
in Washington, DC.
2011: Opening night
of the 15th New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival.
2011: The faces of four of Israel’s most
celebrated poets and playwrights have been selected to appear on a new series
of banknotes slated for release in the next three years, Bank of Israel
Governor Stanley Fischer announced today. Natan Alterman, Leah Goldberg, Shaul
Tchernichovsky and Rachel Sela – better known as Rachel the Poetess – were
selected for the list, which was finalized following more than a year of heated
debate and which will now be submitted to the government for approval. The
faces will appear on new NIS 20, 50, 100 and 200 banknotes. The Bank of Israel
said in a press release that the poets were chosen in the hope that “featuring
these personalities on the banknotes will help to instill in the younger
generation of Israelis an appreciation of their contribution to Israeli society
and to the state.” Fischer made the announcement a day after meeting with the
Committee for the Planning of Banknotes, Coins and Commemorative Coins, chaired
by retired Judge Yaacov Turkel, to confirm the four selections. The committee
was tasked in December 2009 with finding a new set of personalities for the
banknotes after the central bank shelved its original list – which included
Rachel the Poetess, writer Shai Agnon and former prime ministers Menachem Begin
and Yitzhak Rabin – following strong opposition from, amongst others, Finance
Minister Yuval Steinitz and MK Benny Begin, son of Menachem. The New Israeli
Shekel was introduced in place of the old shekel in 1985, with banknotes
featuring the same personalities that can still be found today: former prime
minister Moshe Sharett on the NIS 20 note, Shay Agnon on the NIS 50 note, and
former presidents Yitzhak Ben-Zvi and Zalman Shazar on the NIS 100 and 200
notes. According to the Bank of Israel, the new series will incorporate
state-of the-art security and identification features to aid
anti-counterfeiting measures.
2011: In an
agreement signed today, the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate sold most of its
leasing rights to large swaths of Jerusalem to a group of Jewish investors last
week.
2011: “Today,
Skopje, the capital of Macedonia — home to more than a quarter of the country’s
population of 2 million — gained a new cultural artifact: the Holocaust
Memorial Center of the Jews from Macedonia. A landmark in the middle of the
city, the center remembers Jews lost in the Holocaust from Macedonia and from
neighboring Southeast European nations.” (As reported by Katherine Clarke)
http://forward.com/articles/136212/
2011: Opening of the
15th New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival
2012: “Camera
Obscura” is scheduled to be shown at Congregation Beth-El Jewish Film Festival
in Fort Worth, TX.
2012: Alison
Westermann is scheduled to make her Washington, DC debut with a perforamcne at
Tifereth Israel
2012(16th
of Adar, 5772): On the Hebrew calendar, anniversary of the commencement of the
rebuilding of the Walls of Jerusalem by Agrippa I in 41 of the CE.
2012” HBO broadcast
the film version of Game Change co-authored by Mark Halperin.
2012: United States
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton condemned the barrage of rockets fired
towards Israel from the Gaza Strip. Clinton said in a meeting with Opposition
leader Tzipi Livni in New York that Israel has the right to defend itself.
Livni in turn urged the international community to speak out against terrorism
directed at Israel’s southern communities.
2012: Due to the
escalation in violence, the IDF Home Front command along with the heads of a
number of local authorities in Israel’s south decided tonight to cancel school
in all towns and cities located between 7km to 40km from the Gaza Strip. Due to
the decision, approximately 200,000 children will stay home tomorrow.
2013:
Bel Kaufman, author of Up the Down Staircase; Rachel Cohen Gerrol,
co-founder of the Nexus Global Youth Summit; and Rachel Sklar, founder of
Change the Ratio are scheduled to be honored at JWA’s Third Annual Making
Trouble/Making History awards luncheon
2013:
The Jewish Primary Day School of the Nation’s Capital is scheduled to host a
Purim Ball and Auction honoring Marsha Gentner and Joe Berman, Jacqueline Eyl
and Leonard Chanin Mindy and Jeffrey Sosland featuring comedian Joel Chasnoff
2013:
As part of Temple Judah’s 90th anniversary observance, Barb Feller
will lead a trolley tour of historic Jewish cites in Cedar Rapids with Mark
Hunter serving as “subject matter expert.”
2013:
“Passages through the Fire: Jews and the Civil War” – an exhibition presented
by Yeshiva University Museum and the American Jewish Historical Society opened
today.
2013:
In a ceremony joining together two of the nicest people in the world, Harvard
grad Anna Michelle Resnick married Harvard grad Ilan Caplan who for years
brought joy to the Cedar Rapids Jewish community as the High Holiday Chazan.
2014:
The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present “Exploring Esther: The
Origins, Values and Power of Purim.”
2014:
Jennifer George, Al Jaffee, Adam Gopnik and Brian Walker are scheduled to
discuss “The Genius of Rube Goldberg” at the 92nd Street Y.
2014:
The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present “Lost Souls: Retrieving
Jewish War Orphans after the Holocaust.”
2014:
An Israeli man was attacked with a stun gun in the Marais district” of Paris.
2014:
Authorities in Stockholm reported today that The Vasa Real School which offers
classes in Jewish studies and Hebrew was emblazoned with pink and blue
swastikas and anti-Semitic slogans, including “disgusting Jews” and the white
supremacist insignia “1488” (As reported by Times of Israel)
2014:
Muhammad Mafarji a Palestinain who was convicted last year of planting a bomb
on a bus in Tel Aviv during Israel’s Operation Pillar of Defense was sentenced
to 25 years in prison today.
2014(8th
of Adar II, 5774): Eighty-three-year-old career diplomat Samuel Lewis who
served as U.S. Ambassador to Israel for eight years passed away today.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2014/03/12/839c039e-aa09-11e3-8599-ce7295b6851c_story.html
2014(8th
of Adar II, 5774): At the age of 111, Gisela Kohn Dollinger passed away today.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/refugee-who-rescued-husband-from-dachau-dies-at-111/
2014:
“Dozens of rockets, boxes of hundreds thousands of bullets and nearly 200
mortar rounds will be opened for the world to see today as Israel puts weapons
on show from a recently intercepted ship smuggling arms that it says exposes
the “true face of Iran” which allegedly dispatched it (As reported by Mitch
Ginsburg)
2015:
The Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia caters to diverse Jewish
interest as it offers workshops on “Jews in Sports” and “the evolution of the
Passover Seder over the last two thousand years.”
2015:
Eliad
Kabilio is scheduled to take attendees on “A Musical Journey through Jewish
Space” at the Center for Jewish History.
2015: Today the defense ministry released new photos from
the IDF archives of the raising of the Ink Flag, a historic moment in which IDF
soldiers raised a handmade Israeli flag painted with ink over the Umm
Al-Rashrash police station in 1949 to mark the capture of Eilat.
2015: “An IDF officer was lightly wounded on the Golan
Heights today by gunfire emanating from Syria.” (As reported by Yoav Zitun)
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4635640,00.html
2015: “Herzog Emerging as Credible Challenge to Netanyahu
in Israeli Race” published today provides a status report on the Israeli
elections to be held in just one week.
2016:
The19th New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to start in New
York City this evening.
2016:
“Rosenwald” and “Fire Birds” are scheduled to be shown at the Houston Jewish
Film Festival.
2016:
Six days after he had passed away, funeral services are scheduled to be held in
Arlington Heights, Illinois for 66-year-old William “Bill” Farber the VP and
Senior Counsel at Fidelity Nat’l Title Co, a world-renowned energy facilitator
and husband of the former Rona Rothenbaum with whom he had two children.
2016(30th
of Adar I, 5776): Rosh Chodesh I, Adar II
2016(30th
of Adar, I 5776): Eighty-seven-year-old Booker Prize winning author Anita
Brookner passed away today.
2017:
Today “twenty one people were lightly injured in Tel Aviv during the city’s
annual festival for the Jewish holiday of Purim.”
2017:
The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host a Friday night dinner
during which all of those participating in “mystery matanot” reveal their
identities.
2017:
“A day after the Jewish Children’s Museum” in Brooklyn was evacuated due to a
bomb threat, “the Jasa Senior Citizen Center on Coney Island Avenue in Brooklyn
received the threat in the form of a text message at 8:45 a.m. local time.
2017:
It was reported today that “a 1796 first edition of George Washington’s A
Collection of the Speeches of the President of United States which includes
“letters and speeches to the Jews of Newport, Rhode Island” is scheduled to be
sold at auction next week.
2017:
In Paris, the symposium on “The Holocaust in Ukraine. New Perspectives on the
Evils of the 20th Century” is scheduled to continue for a second day.
2018(23rd
of Adar, 5778): Finish the book of Exodus with Vayakhel and Pekuday; Shabbat
Parah;
2018:
“Bar Bahar” is scheduled to be shown this afternoon at Jackson Hole Jewish
Community Center in the Centennial Building.
2018:
The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host its last Shabbat
observance of the term.
2018:
The 21st NY Sephardic Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host
“Classic Move Night: Greek Sephardim in the Holocaust.”
2019:
In Atlanta, GA, as “part of the 2019 Molly Blank Concert Series Celebrating
Jewish Contributions to Music,” the Breman Museum is scheduled to host “Salute
to Hollywood: Jewish Contributions to Academy Awards Best Original Songs.”
2019:
“Henry Goodman, Nicholas Hytner, Jason Isaacs, Brian Leveson, Emily Maitlis,
Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jay Rayner, Philippe Sands, Janet Suzman and Zoe
Wanamaker, are scheduled to read poems, letters and speeches, stretching from
the beginnings of Jewish history, right up to the present day” this evening as
part of “Jewish Voices,” “the grand finale of Jewish Book Week 2019”
co-sponsored by World Jewish Relief
2019:
The Yeshiva University Museum is scheduled to present “Al Naharot Bavel (By the
Waters of Babylon): during which “NYC ensembles ARTEK and PARTHENIA offer a
concert of music by Jewish composers of the Renaissance and early baroque, in
Italy and England.”
2019:
Norman Ornststein, the former CBS election analyst and “resident scholar at the
American Enterprise Institue” is scheduled to present “One Nation After Trump:
A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate and the
Not-Yet-Deported” at the JCC of Northern Virginia.
2019:
The New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host the New York
premiere of “From Cairo to the Cloud: The World of the Cairo Geniza” directed
by Michelle Paymar.
2020(14th
of Adar, 5780): Purim;
2020:
This morning, The London School for Jewish Studies is scheduled to host a “the
Women’s Megilla Reading which is going to be a real highlight of Purim day.
2020:
The Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines is scheduled to co-host a screening
of “Tales of Teleki Square,” “the award-winning film about the rejuvenation of
the Jewish Community of Budapest.”
2020: In Brisbane, CA, the 7 Mile House is scheduled to host “Klezmer Jam”
featuring the Five-piece band KlezNu performing a fusion of klezmer and modern
jazz.”
2020:
Chabad of Arkansas under the leadership of Rabbi Pinchas Ciment is scheduled to
host a “Royyal Purim Feast and Masquerade Party” complete with a multimedia
Megilla reading.
2021:
The Jewish Community Library is scheduled to present Columbia U. professor
Claudio Lomnitz as he talks about Nuestra América: My Family in the Vertigo
of Translation his book about the history of Jews who fled Europe for South
America, including his family.
2021:
UCSF Center for BRCA research co-director Pamela Munster and John Muir Health
genetic counselor Josh Barnhart are scheduled to lead a panel on the latest in
genetic testing, the impact of inherited genes and cancer prevention.
2021:
18Doors Boston is scheduled to present online “Let’s Bayit: Home Buying &
Building a Jew(ish) Home.
2021:
The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to present “Diaspora in Late
Antiquity: What Christianity Cost the Jews,” part of the New Works Wednesdays
program.
2021:
“STANDWITHUS” is scheduled to present online “The Neo-Nazi Who Converted to
Judaism: A Conversation With Yonatan Langer.”
2021:
AJC and the Stephen Wise Temple are scheduled to present state Assembly member
Sydney Kamlager-Dove, JFCS director Anita Friedman and an L.A. school district
board member talking about why an inclusive curriculum model benefits everyone.
2021:
The S.F.-based Jewish Community Federation is scheduled to present “Building a
More Just World Through Philanthropy” with philanthropy strategy pioneer Judith
Rodin.
2021:
The Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies’ annual Robbins
Collection Lecture is scheduled to be delivered by Berkeley Law professor
Kenneth Bamberger and Stanford religious studies professor Ariel Evan Mayse who
discuss surveillance, privacy and dignity in the tech age.
2022:
The Streicker Center is scheduled to present in person and online “Judaism: A
Mailing List You Can Never Unsubscribe From” with Alex Edelman.
2022:
The Illinois Holocaust Museum Women’s Leadership Committee is scheduled to host
an intimate conversation with Lisa Barr, author of the novel Woman on Fire.
2023:
In Wayland, MA, people of all ages are scheduled to welcome Shabbat in the Temple Shir Tikva
Sanctuary through sacred music and community with Dan Nichols,
2023:
Hadassah Midwest is scheduled to begin this afternoon in Deerfield, IL.
2023:
In Sudbury, MA, Rabbi Eiduson and Cantorial Soloist Student Intern Rachel
Rubinstein are scheduled to host a Post-Purim-themed Shabbat evening Service at
Congregation B’nai Torah.
2023:
At San Francisco, Congregation Sherith Israel is scheduled host a Kabbalat
Shabbat service and oneg, after which guitarist-vocalist Kaye will present
stories and blue music that reflect his personal life, spiritual path, and
Jewish history and liturgy.
2023:
In Burlingame, CA, Peninsula Temple Sholom is scheduled to present “Learning
from Ethically Compromised Individuals: What Does Jewish Tradition Say About
Cancel Culture?” during which Rabbi Dr. David Ellenson discusses whether it is
permissible to learn from, study with, read the works or appreciate the art of
morally flawed individuals.
2023:
Prime Minister is scheduled to meet with Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni
today in Rome.
2024:
Yeshiva University Museum is schedule to present “War and Memory in Jewish
Material Culture” an in-person event Professor Shalom Sabar author of “Souvenirs
of the Six-Day War as Conveyors of Socio-Historical Messages from the Past to
Modern Israel” and Rabbi Joseph Topek author of
“Beyond
the Civil War: Memory and Iconography in Early American Jewish Veteran Culture”
2024:
The Museum at Eldridge Street is scheduled to “Mamas with Chutzpah,” a walking
tour in which participants can “discover the notable women, such as Emma
Goldman and Sarah Gellis, who witnessed and shaped social, artistic, financial,
and political change on the Lower East Side from the late 19th to the early
20th century.”
2024:
In Cedar Rapids, Rabbi Todd Thalblum is scheduled to offer a prayer at the
“Peace In Our World” prayer service hosted by The Inter-Religious Council of
Linn County.
2024:
In New Orleans, Temple Sinai is scheduled to host a book discussion with Pete
Wolf author of The Sugar King: A New Orleans Legend, His Creole Slave, and
His Jewish Roots.
2024:
The Breman Museum is scheduled to host a book talk with Atlanta photographer
Ron Sherman, author of Witness, a Photographic Essay.
2024(30th
of Adar I, 5784: Rosh Chodesh Adar II coincides with the start of Daylight
Savings Time in the United States.
2024: As March
10th begins in Israel, the Hamas held hostages begin
day 156 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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