This Day, March 23, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
March 23
1369: King
Pedro of Castile who employed Abraham ibn Zaral as his physician was beheaded
by his rival and brother, Henry of Trastamara marking the end of their civil
war for control of the kingdom. Henry “was as hostile to the Jews as Pedro had
been friendly. His long-cherished hatred of his brother burst forth when a Jew
named Jacob, an intimate of the king, praised the latter excessively to Henry.
In his fury he stabbed the Jew with a dagger. Pedro would have revenged himself
on Henry forthwith, but his courtiers restrained him by force. Henry saved
himself by a hasty flight. This was the immediate cause of the civil war which
brought untold suffering upon the Jews of the country. . He was as hostile to
the Jews as Pedro had been friendly. His long-cherished hatred of his brother
burst forth when a Jew named Jacob, an intimate of the king, praised the latter
excessively to Henry. In his fury he stabbed the Jew with a dagger. Pedro would
have revenged himself on Henry forthwith, but his courtiers restrained him by
force. Henry saved himself by a hasty flight. This was the immediate cause of
the civil war which brought untold suffering upon the Jews of the country.
During their struggle for control, Henry continuously depicted Peter as
“King of the Jews,” and had some success in taking advantage of
popular Castilian resentment towards the Jews. During his reign, “Henry of
Trastamara instigated pogroms beginning a period of anti-Jewish riots and
forced conversion] in Castile that lasted approximately from 1370 to 1390.”
1475: Trent
(Italy) was the scene of one of the more notorious ritual murder libels. A
Franciscan monk, Bernardinus of Feltre, had recently arrived and began
preaching Lent sermons against the Jews. A week before Easter a boy by the name
of Simon drowned in the river Adige. The monk charged the Jews with using the
body for its blood. The body washed up a few days later near the house of a Jew
who brought it to the Bishop Honderbach. Seventeen Jews were tortured for over
two weeks. Some confessed while being tortured and 6 Jews were burnt. Two more
were strangled. A temporary hiatus was called by Pope Sixtus IV, but after five
years the trial was reopened, and 5 more Jews were executed. The papal inquest
agreed with the trial, Simon was beatified, and all Jews were expelled for 300
years. The trial served as the basis for anti-Semitic writings for hundreds of
years. Only in 1965 was Simon de –beatified
1490: The
first dated edition of Maimonides’ “Mishneh Torah” was published. Maimonides
was born in Cordova, Spain in 1135. His family fled as one group of Moslem
rulers replaced another. Eventually he settled in Egypt where he was a
distinguished physician for the ruling Moslems as well as head of the Egyptian
community. According to one source he provided medical advice for both Saladin
and Richard the Lionhearted. He died in 1204 and is buried in Tiberias in
Israel. Simply put, the Mishneh Torah was “an orderly restructuring of the
entire legal literature of the Talmud.” The Mishneh Torah (Repetition of
the Law) is “one of the most distinguished codes of Jewish law…”
1555: Pope
Julius III passed away. Despite opposition, Julius allowed Jewish refugees from
Spain settle in Ancona in northeast Italy. He spoke out against the blood libel
and opposed baptism of Jewish children without the approval of their parents.
At the same time, he was unable to stand up to the power of the Inquisitor
General from the Holy Office and he acquiesced in the burning of numerous
copies of the Talmud and other Jewish books.
1556: Paul IV
issued the Papal Bull “Dudum postquam”
1712(15th of
Adar II): Rabbi Zevi Hirsch Koidonover, the Wilna born “son of Rabbi Aaron
Samuel Kaidanover and a pupil of Rabbi Joseph ben Judah Jeidel” who “with his
whole family, was thrown into prison on account of a base denunciation, and was
forced to languish in chains for years until he was pardoned” after which he
moved to Frankfurt where he authored of Kav ha-Yashar passed away today.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9132-kaidanover-zebi-hirsch
1714: Duke
Ferdinand expelled the Jews from Courland
1732: In
Niederwiesen, Germany, Hindle and Moses Levi gave birth to Philip Moses Faist
Rosenheim the husband of Dreile Schwiezer and the father of Samuel, Moses,
Simon, Hindle and Abraham Rosenheim.
1766: In Lower
Saxony, Germany, wealthy tobacco merchant and philanthropist Isaac Jacob Gans,
the “son of Jacob Salomon Gans and Freude Katz Gans and his wife Pesse Pauline
Leah Gans gave birth to Abraham Isaak Gans,
1758(13th
of Adar II, 5518): Ta’anit Esther; erev Purim
1769(14th
of Adar II, 5529) Purim
1777(14th
of Adar II, 5537) Purim
1780:
Birthdate of German native Loeb Feigenbaum, the husband of Ida Bach with whom
he had nine children.
1784: Reverend
Gershom Mendes Seixas returned to New York City from Connecticut and took up
his position as “Minister.” He returned while New York City was evacuated by
the British, and most of the members of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
were in the safety of Connecticut and Philadelphia. Seixas was very patriotic,
and was thanked by President George Washington at one time. Seixas instituted a
recital of a prayer for the government in English, it having been always read
in Spanish prior to this time.
1796(13th
of Adar II, 5556): Fast of Esther; erev Purim
1796: In
Jebenhausen, Germany, Marget Isaac and Aron Abraham Arnold gave birth to Joseph
Aron Arnold, the husand of Therese Kaufman with whom he had seven children.
1799(16th
of Adar II, Parashat Tzav
1801: Tsar
Paul I of Russia is struck with a sword, then strangled, and finally trampled
to death in his bedroom at St. Michael’s Castle. Paul’s reign was a
comparatively short one, starting in 1796 with the death of his mother
Catherine the Great. The shortness of his time on the throne was a good thing
for the Jews of Russia. In 1799, Paul sent one of his closest advisors, Gabriel
Derhavin to Belorssia. Derhavin decided that the problems in that part of the
realm, as well as the rest of Russia were caused by the Jews “who were
irredeemably corrupt.” He was planning on urging the Czar to move most of the
Jews to the “frontier territories or drive them from the empire altogether.”
These and other harsh measures would have become the law of the land if Paul
had not been killed and replaced by his comparatively more enlightened son,
Alexander I.
1806: Rachel
and Moses David Friedman gave birth to Zanwel Friedman.
1807(13th of
Adar II, 5567): Ta’anit Esther is observed as Parliament is acting to abolish
the Atlantic slave trade.
1811:
Birthdate of German medical doctor Carl Friedrich Stahl.
1814: Sarah
Mayes, the daughter of Esther Etting and David Barrack Hays married Benjamin
Etting Hays today.
1816(23rd
of Adar, 5576): Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei; Shabbat Parah observed as the 14th
Congress of the United States was meeting during its first session.
1818: In
Charleston, SC, Isaac and Rachel Mordecai Harby gave birth Dr. Samuel Harby,
the editor of the New Orleans Bee, husband of Frances Levy Harby and the father
of Octavia Rachel Harby Pollock.
1819: Today “the
liberal Burschenschaft student Karl Ludwig Sand murdered the conservative
writer August von Kotzebue” which provided the excuse for Metternich to call
for a meeting of Austrian ministers which led to the passage of the “Carlsbad
Decrees,” a package of reactionary rules which were passed during “The Hep-Hep riots which were pogroms against Ashkenazi Jews, that
began in the Kingdom of Bavaria, during the period of Jewish emancipation in
the German Confederation.”
1820: Abraham
Wiesel Gompertz, the father of Harriet Gompertz was buried today.
1826: In
Philadelphia, PA, Abraham Arnold, the German born son of Marget Isaac and Aron Abraham
Arnold married Maria Abrahams, the daughter of Roseanna Linderman and Levi
Abrahams,
1827: Marcus
De Vries married Kaat Van Rook
1827: Rabbi
David Aaron de Sola, the Amsterdam born son of Rafael Aron (v. Haim David) de
Sola and Sara v. Isaac Namias Torres who was the first rabbi to preach a sermon
in English at Bevis Marks Synagogue and his wife Rebecca de Sola gave birth to
Isaac de Sola
1830: One day
after he had passed away, Trespole Myers was buried today at the “Brompton
(Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.
1831:
Eighty-eight-year-old Christian-Hebraist Giovanni Bernardo De Rossi passed
away.
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/12896-rossi-giovanni-bernardo-de
1833(3rd
of Nisan, 5593): Vayikra
1836:
Birthdate of German native Gertrude Hyman Felsenthal, the wife of Herman
Felsenthal with whom she had six children – Eli, Judith, Flora, Hannah and
Emily.
1837: Birthdate
of Joseph Wieniawski, Russian pianist and composer.
1845(14th
of Adar, 5605): Purim is observed for the first time during the presidency of
James K. Polk.
1846: In New
York, Moses and Esther Lazarus gave birth to Josephine Lazarus.
1847: Samuel
Joans married Esther Cashmore, the daughter of Moshe Kashman at the Great
Synagogue.
1848: In
Manchester, UK, Charles Sydney Grundy and his wife gave birth to English
dramatist Sydney Grundy who combined with Edward Solomon to produce two comic
operas – “The Vicar of Bray” and “Pochoantas” – and produced “An Old Jew” at
the Garrick in 1894, five years before Zangwill’s “Children of the Ghetto.
1849(29th
of Adar, 5609): Fifty-four-year-old Hananeel de Castro, the husband of Deborah
de Jacob Mendes da Costa who was the President of the Board of Deputies of
British Jews at the time of the Damascus Blood Libel in 1840 passed away today.
1853: In
Pribram, Bohemia, Markus Saphir, the Bohemian born son of Joseph Saphir and his
wife Anna Saphir gave birth to Theresia Saphir
1853: While
delivering a speech welcoming Father Gavazzi, the celebrated Roman patriot and
orator to the United States, Reverend Dowling pointed out a peculiarity of the
American experience. “This government, alone of all others, never persecuted or
endeavored to persecute Jews.”
1854: In
Louisville, KY, Adolph and Frederick Brandeis gave birth to Alfred Brandeis,
the husband of Jennie Brandeis and brother to Louis D. Brandeis, the first
Jewish Justice to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court.
1855:
Birthdate of Sherman, CT native and Columbia University Professor Sociology
Franklin Henry Giddings who 1907 told a group attending a lecture at the
People’s Institute in Cooper Union that he favors “the recent movement by the
Jews to keep Christian ceremonies out of the public schools” and that while “he
favored the Zionist movement, he feared that could it not be made attractive to
the Jews to be successful.
1856(16th
of Adar II, 5616): Purim Meshulash
1856: In
Philadelphia, Isaac and Henriette Kohn gave birth to Sophie Kohn who became
Sophie Pfaelzer when she married Philadelphia jeweler Morris Moses Pfaelzer.
1859: In New
York City, Kathie Steinhardt and Solomon J. Spiegelberg gave birth to civil
engineer turned stockbroker Isaac Newton Spiegelberg, the husband of Stella
Friedlander and member of the NYSE and the brokerage firm of Chase and
Seligsberg who was a member of Temple Eamnu-El in New York.
1861: “The
Hebrew Son” is scheduled to be performed at the Winter Garden Theatre in NYC.
1862: In
Hungary, “Pauline and Dr. Jacob Jacques Heinrich Hirschfeld” gave birth to
Adele Amalie Hirschfeld who became Adele Amalie Schmidt when she married August
Schmidt.
1862: During
the American Civil War, Judah P. Benjamin completed his short stint as “acting”
Secretary War. Benjamin continued to serve as Secretary of State.
1862:
Eighty-one-year-old Count Karl Robert Nesselrode, the Russian foreign minister
who successfully thwarted the plan of Jacques Isaac Altaras to settle 40,000
Russian-Jewish families in Algeria passed away today.
1863:
According to “The Books of the Week” column published today, Scribner’s has
published “Lectures on the History of the Jewish Church, — Part 1,
Abraham to Samuel” by Arthur Penryn Stanley, D.D., Regius Professor of
Ecclesiastical History in the University of Oxford, and Canon of Christ Church.
According to this Stanley “the roots of the Jewish Church must be sought deep
in the Patriarchal Age, its prelude commencing with the Call of Abraham, then
from the time it takes determinate shape and recognized status with the Exodus,
the first great period extends to the absorption of the ancient and primitive
constitution in the new institutions of the Monarchy. This “period is generally
called by the name of the Theocracy; its great characters are Abraham, Moses
and Samuel. It embraces the first revelation of the Mosaic Religion, and the
first foundation of the Jewish Church and polity.” Two future volumes will
continue to describe the history of the Jews up to Roman times. The second
volume will describe the period of the Monarchy. The third will describe the
period “from the Captivity to the destruction of the Jewish Capital and State
by the Emperor Titus.”
1864(15th of
Adar II, 5624): Shushan Purim
1864: “Purim:
Our Jewish Citizens in Their Glory” published today reported that Purim
Association has given their “third Grand Fancy Dress Ball, at the Academy of
Music. The Association was formed in 1862 by nine young men of the Jewish
faith, its first ball was given at Irving Hall in 1862, its second at the
Academy of Music in 1863, and its third at the same hall last evening. The
festival of Purim is one of the oldest and most important festivals recognized
by the Jews, commemorating, as it does, one of the most important events in
their history as a nation. It was instituted by Queen Esther and by Mordecai
about the year 510 B.C., and commemorates the remarkable deliverance of the
children of Israel from the tyranny and machinations of Haman, who was Prime
Minister to King Ahasuerus, who reigned from India unto Ethiopia, over a
hundred and twenty-seven provinces. Mordecai had been carried captive from
Jerusalem, and with him the fair and beautiful maiden Hadassah or Esther, whom
Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.
Esther being exceedingly beautiful and pleasing found favor in the eyes of King
Ahasuerus, who married her and made her his Queen. About this time Haman was
appointed to the high position of Prime Minister to the King, and he demanded
and received homage from all except the Jew Mordecai, who not only refused to
pay homage, but also refused to give any reason why he would not. Haman, highly
incensed at the conduct of Mordecai, ordered made a gallows of extraordinary
height, on which to hang him for the insult be had offered to one in high
office and favored by the King. Queen Esther, hearing of this, informed the
King of the relation which existed between her and Mordecai, and also of the
great benefit Mordecai had done the King some time previous in informing of two
men in his confidence, Bigthana and Teresh, who sought to lay violent hands
upon the King and kill him. The King remembering all these things and the
iniquity, or Haman, ordered him hanged upon the gallows erected for Mordecai,
placed Mordecai in the position held by Haman, made him chief over the house of
Haman, and released the children of Israel from bondage. This was celebrated by
great rejoicing all over the land and, in every way the joy and happinees of
the people was exhibited. From that to the present the festival of this
deliverance of the Jews has been celebrated by the most extravagant expressions
of happiness, calling upon each other at their houses, in every dress and guise
which could possibly add merriment or joy to the occasion, and using every
means they could devise for the utmost enjoyment and celebration of this great
and happy event. Of late years their number has so increased that time would
not allow them to visit all the friends they wished, nor would their houses
hold all the friends they wished to entertain. To obviate this difficulty, nine
young gentlemen on the Jewish faith, in the year 1862, organized the
“Purim Association,” the object of which was to collect all the parties
together for the general enjoyment of the festival, and that all friends might
meet. Thus far they have been particularly fortunate nothing has occurred to
mar their pleasure, and they have also by this means been enabled to do a great
deal of good. Last year they presented to the Orphan Asylum and other
charitable institutions a handsome sum, and this year they intend, first, to
present to the Sanitary Fair a good round sum, and then take care of the
charitable institutions, as is their custom. The officers of the association,
who have been and are working hard and steadily for the promotion of this
society and its good influence, and to whom, in a great measure, the success of
the ball is due, are as follows: M.H. Moses, President; Jos. A. Levy, Vice-President;
A.H. Schutz, Treasurer. The hall was crowded with a most brilliant assemblage,
who entered into the enjoyments of the occasion with a zest seldom equaled; the
costumes were very rich and beautiful; the diamonds worn by the ladies
magnificent and in brilliancy almost rivaled the bright eyes of their fail
owners. Among the best of the characters represented were those of Mrs.
Partington, Lucretia Borgia, Penobscot Squaw, Chippewa Chief, and Joan of Arc,
several beauties of the Court of Charles H., the Duke of Buckingham, Faust, a
Priest, and several Jewish maidens. Merriment reigned supreme within the hall.
Wives, well-disguised, teased their liege lords almost to distraction;
sweethearts by sly winks and actions, drove their devoted lovers almost frantic;
husbands thinking they were not known or noticed, paid sweet compliments to
fair maidens only to be rapped over the knuckles for not reserving them for
their wives, and staid old bachelors and maidens entered into the spirit of the
fun in a manner which fairly astonished themselves. Two Bands gave constant
music, to which the feet of the merry dancers kept time. At twelve o’clock they
unmasked and then what surprise was created. Husbands found they had been
flirting all the evening with their own wives; lovers had been confidentially
extolling the beauties of their sweethearts to their-sweethearts themselves;
old maids had been telling old bachelors how disagreeable they thought that
class of men to be, and old bachelors had been sympathizing, perhaps, with the
old maids themselves, upon the unhappy condition of these unfortunate ladies.
The mistakes, however, were speedily and amicably settled, and after the
excellent supper prepared by the caterer, M.S. Cohen, had been fully enjoyed,
were entirely forgotten.” New York Mayor Charles Gunther was among the
dignitaries who attended the event.
1865: In
Philadelphia, Joseph and Louisa Berg gave birth to Hart O. Berg, “a pioneer in
the manufacture of machine guns, submarines, automobiles and airplanes” who
married the former Lena Willets and was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor
by France in 1901.
1865:
Birthdate of Posen born, and Columbia trained physician Henry Heiman who had
come to the United States in 1880.
1866: James
Disraeli who resided in Cromwell Place wrote his will today.
1867:
Birthdate of Arthur Bornstein, the native of Breslau, Germany who was a dentist
by training but whose real passion was writing as can be seen by the volumes of
short stories he published starting in 1894.
1867: In
Vienna, Dr. Michael Reiner and Agnes Reiner gave birth to Dr. Maximilian Max
Reiner, the husband of Paula Reiner and the father of Herbert and Heinrich
Reiner.
1867: In Zabno
Galicia, Solomon and Rosa Malter gave birth to Henry Malter, the husband of
Bertha Freund and the holder of Ph.D. from the University of Heidelberg who was
the professor of medieval philosophy and
Arabic at the Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, rabbi of the Sheerith Israel
Congregation of Cincinnati and Professor of Rabbinical Literature at Dropsie
College
1868(15th of
Adar II, 5624): Shushan Purim
1868: In
Cardiff, Esther Lyons, “18 year old Jewess” who was running away from her
family “knocked on the door of Croome Villa, Roath, the home of the Reverend
Nathanial Thomas, minister of the Baptist Tabernacle” in what would be the
first act of a cause celeb that would sour relations between Jews and Baptists
in South Wales “for years to come.{
1868: The
University of California is founded in Oakland, California when the Organic Act
is signed into law. Today the University of California at Berkley has
approximately 3000 Jewish students out of a student population totaling
approximately 24,000. The school offers ten Jewish studies courses and a Major
in the field.
1869: In New
York City, Henry and Clara (Mayer) Hahn gave birth to German and Bohemian
trained violinist and composer Frederick E. Hahn the first violinist with the
Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1892 to 1896, the founder and leader of the Hahn
String Quartet and the founder and director of the Hahn Conservatory of Music
who was a member of Mikveh Israel Congregation in Philadelphia.
1869: In Pila,
Sieradz, Poland, Szaja Pilichowski and his wife gave birth to painter Leopold
Pilichowski.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0016_0_15770.html
http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Pilichowski_Leopold
1869: Rosetta
Moses, the daughter of Martha and Joseph Jonas and the husband Dr. Montefiore
Moses gave birth to Walter Jonas Moses.
1870: Jay
Gould appeared before the New York State Senate Railroad Committee and said
that his opponents were being financed by “Jewish bankers” from London.
(“Robber Baron” Jay Gould was attempting to use anti-British and anti-Jewish
prejudice to deflect attacks on his unscrupulous business tactics when dealing
with the Erie Railroad.)
1870: Herman
W. Hellman, who in 1866 sold out his interest in a book and stationary business
and then went into business for himself “sold his entire stock and fixtures to
Harris and Jacoby” and left for a trip to Europe.
1871(1st of
Nisan, 5631): Rosh Chodesh Nisan observed on the same day that President “Grant
formally requested legislative action “to deal with the menace of KKK “in a
special message to Congress.
1872:
“Persecution of Jews In Romania” published today the reporter compared the
attacks on the Jews with the suffering “in England in the days of Isaac of
York” and calls upon the European Powers to intervene on behalf of the Jews if
the government of Romania will not stop the attacks on its Jewish citizens.
1872: This
evening, as Jews celebrated Purim, synagogues in New York “were all crowded” as
they listened to the unique musical narrative of the story of Esther. “In
the…strictly Orthodox synagogues such as those on Chrystie and Allen Streets,
the audience stamped their feet or struck the ground with the heavy sticks
whenever the detested name of Haman was pronounced.”
1873: In Ibbenbüren,
Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Johanna Rosenthal, the German born daughter of
Abraham Bendix Weinberg and Frieda Sophia Weinberg and her husband Leffmann
Rosenthal gave birth to Alfred Rosenthal who passed away during the same month
that Hiter came to power.
1876: The
Young Men’s Hebrew Association will host its final “entertainment of the
season” this evening at the Standard Hall in New York City.
1877: Isaac
Artom “was elected senator of the kingdom” today making him “the first Jew to
sit in the Italian legislative body.”
1878: In
Monaco Jewish court photographer Ignaz Schrecker and his wife Eleonore von
Clossmann gave birth to Austrian composer and conductor Franz Schreker.
1879: It was
reported today 800,000 Philadelphians are served by 564 houses of worship
including 9 synagogues.
1879: Dr.
Henry S. Jacobs will deliver a lecture this evening at the Norfolk Street
Synagogue sponsored by the Young Men’s Hebrew Union.
1880: In
Russia an editorial entitled “The Yid is Coming” is published in the
anti-Semitic journal Novoe Vermie.
1881:
Anti-Jewish riots broke out in Lubny, Russia. This would not be the first or
the last time that death would strike the Jews of Lubny which is actually
located in the Ukraine, In 1648 during the horror known as the Chmielnicki
Massacres, thousands of Jews died at Lubny and other nearby towns. In October
of 1941, the Nazis massacred the Jewish population as the German armies swept
across the Ukraine. The rioting in 1881 probably was a mini-pogrom sparked by
the killing of Czar Alexander II “at the hand of revolutionary bomb
throwers.” They presaged a series of such riots that would sweep much of
Russia during the Spring and Summer of 1881.
1882: In
Erlangen, Bavaria, mathematician Max Noether and Ida Amalia Kaufman gave birth
to mathematician Amalie Emmy Noether.
https://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/noether.htm
1882: In Papa
Hungary, the former Sophie Hirsch, the youngest daughter of Rabbi Shamshon
Raphael Hirsch and “Rabbi Shlomo (Solomon) Zalman a talmid of the Ksav Sofer”
gave birth to Joseph Bruer, the husband of Rika Eisenmann of Antwerp,
granddaughter of Eliezer Liepman Philip Prins, the Rosh Yeshiva of Torah
Lenranstalt, the rabbi of the Klaus Synagogue in Frankfurt, and after fleeing
the Nazis, the founder and leader of Khal Adath Yeshurun, the Washington
Heights congregation established to meet the needs of the large German-Jewish
community that had been created due to the rise of Hitler.
1883(14th of
Adar II, 5643): Purim
1886(16th
of Adar II, 5646): Eighty-two-year-old Bina Oppenheimer, the daughter of David
and Schiele Kahn and the wife of Lob Oppenheimer passed away today in New York
City.
1886:
Birthdate of Austrian native Benjamin Waxelbaum and the husband of Dorothy
Waxelbaum who in 1893 came to the United States where he became a “publishers’
representative with offices at 180 East Broadway in New York, worked for 14
years as the advertising manager of New York Jewish Morning Journal and became
a founding partner in Keilson and Waxelbaum
1886:
Secretary Taylor of the American Yacht Club called the members together in a
special meeting this evening to listen to a lecture by the popular Sephardic
raconteur Mr. R.J. de Cordova on “The New York Stock Exchange.”
Instead of of lecture, Mr. de Cordova amused the “twoscore members”
of the club humorous rhyming story about a stock broker in search of a rich
wife, the daughter of a Pennsylvania farmer made rich by the discovery of
petroleum on his farm and “a rejected bucolic lover” who happily
marries the maiden after she loses her fortune while pursuing an extravagant
urban lifestyle.
1887:
Birthdate of Sidney Hillman. Sidney Hillman was a major figure in the American
labor movement and became a leading advisor to President Franklin Delano
Roosevelt. He was President of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, one
of the two major unions in the garment industry from 1915 until his death in
1946. An untiring champion of the working class and the underprivileged,
Hillman was a founder of the Congress of Industrial Organization, the CIO.
Unfortunately, with the passage of time, we have lost a sense of appreciation
for the improvement in the American way of life wrought by Hillman and similar
giants of the American labor movement, many of whom were Jewish.
1887(27th of
Adar): Seventy-year-old Posen born Rabbi Eliezer Landshuth, author of Amudei
ha-Avodah passed away today at Berlin.
http://newspaperslibrary.org/articles/eng/Leser_Landshuth
1889:
Birthdate of Lithuanian native Florence R. Dolowitz, the Hunter College
graduate and mathematics teacher who founded the Women’s American ORT while
raising two children – Grace and David – with her husband Alexander Dolowitz,
passed away today.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/dolowitz-florence
1890: “Art
Notes” published today described the ten illustrations of “The Merchant of
Venice” by Edwin Abbey that will appear in the April edition of Harper
magazine. They include “the figure of
Portia exhorting the Jew” to show mercy and a “frontpiece” showing the Ducal
Palace “with the Jew demonstrating why he does not love Christians.”
1890: The late
Solomon Adler bequeathed $500 to both the Hebrew Orphan Asylum and Mount Sinai
Hospital and $250 to each of the following: Montefiore Home for Chronic
Invalids, the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews and the Hebrew Sheltering
Guardian Society of New York.
1891(13th
of Adar II, 5651): Ta’anit Esther; erev Purim
1891: Alice
Goldmark, the niece of composer Karl Goldmark, married Louis Brandeis at her
parent’s home in New York City and the moved “ to Boston’s Beacon Hill
district” where their two daughters – Susan and Elizabeth – were born.
1891: “The
Baron de Hirsch Club” published today described the accomplishments of the
newly formed social club. Among the
seventy-five charter members are Dr. Leon Sherurg, Elias Gluskin, Morton
Britton, John W. Jacobus, William Bellamy, Louis Henderson and M.J. Rosinski
1892:
Twenty-four-year-old Abraham Gussow, the Russian born of son of Herman Gossow,
was the founder of A. Gussow and Company, on of “the largest manufacturers of
women’s underwear in New York and a president of the Cotton Garment Association
today married Emma Iserlson with whom he had five children – Pansy, Minnie,
Anna, Isidore and Alfred.
1892: It was
reported today that after the claim of Adolf Grube for 1,600,000 rubles has
been satisfied J.E. Guenxburg will only have 14 million rubles in his accounts
with which to satisfy the rest of his creditors.
1893(6th
of Nisan, 5653): Seventy-six-year-old Adolf Fischoff, the doctor turned
Austrian political leader and author passed away today.
http://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/6153-fischhof-adolf
1893: Max Judd
of Missouri has been nominated to serve as Consul General at Vienna. Judd, a
native of Austria, came to the United States as a child and has lived in St.
Louis for the last twenty-five years. A
man of “well and fine education” “his appointment is the result of the almost
universal request of the people of” St. Louis which speaks well of Judd and the
regard in which the Jews of Missouri are held by the general population.
1893: W.H.
Helm of Dumfries and his wife gave birth Sir Alexander Knox Helm, the United
Kingdom’s first ambassador to Israel.
1893: A case
involving the seizure by police of liquor which members of Boston’s Adath
Israel’s congregation claimed was intended for use on Passover began making its
way through the court system. The Jews claim that the vice president of the
congregation was holding the liquor for his co-religionists which he will be
distributing during Passover. The police claim that this is a ruse and is
merely a way for the Jews to get around local liquor ordinances.
1893: Kosher
slaughtering was prohibited in Saxony, which is in a part of Germany that
Martin Luther had dominated during his rise to power. Some claim that the ban
was part of the anti-cruelty to animal movement, but this claim has a very
hollow sound to it considering what else was going on in the society.
1895: Edwin
Einstein, a New York Republican, was appointed to serve as Dock Commissioner
today by a mayor who was a Democrat.
1895: It was
reported today that the bazaar held recently by the ladies of Temple Emanuel in
Birmingham raised nearly one thousand dollars.
1895: In
Budapest, the House of Magnates rejected the clause of the Religious Freedom
Bill that gave Jews equal rights with the Christians by a vote of 117 to 111.
1896:
Birthdate of Jacob “Jake” Friedman, the native of Bridgeport, CT who in 1926
played “end” in three games for the Hartford Blues, an NFL team that existed
for only year.
1896:
Congregation B’nai Shalom which held services on “Sabbath and holidays,”
included a Ladies Hebrew Association as an “auxiliary society” and was served
by Rabbi Max Lewinthal was founded in Brookhaven, Mississippi today.
1896: In
Lithuania, Rose Fiensinger and Louis Sachs gave birth to Chicago clothing
manufacturer Morris Benard Sachs, the father of Rhoda, Zenia and Morris Sachs
and founder of the Amateur Hour radio show
1896: “What Is
A Christian Nation?” published today described the views of Dr. Gustav Gottheil
who “claims that the so-called Christian nations are not so in fact and that
the Jews are, from the ethical standpoint, the true Christian nation.” A Christian nation would make the Sermon on
the Mount the basis for its Constitution entailing “the returning of good for
evil, the breathing of a blessing upon those who curse us, the rendering of
good for evil.” (Editor’s note –This view should provide food for thought for
those who claim the U.S. is a “Christian nation.”)
1897: Mrs.
Rebecca Kohut gave a talk today on “The Training of Children in Reverence in
Jewish Homes” at the Manhattan Congregational Church.
1897:
Birthdate of Jackson, MS native and Millsap College graduate Julian B.
Feibelman, the Hebrew Union College trained rabbi who was the long-time leader
of Temple Sinai in New Orleans where he could be seen striding up St. Charles
Avenue in spats sometimes accompanied by his wife, the former May Anna Fellman.
1897: Oscar S.
Straus, the former U.S. Minister to Turkey who has just returned to the United
States said that he had met with Baroness de Hirsch while in Europe but did not
care to discuss the details of continued financial assistance for immigrants
from Europe who will be settling in the Western Hemisphere.
1897: One day
after he had passed away, 36-year-old Julius Pearl, the son of Haskel and
Miriam Pearl was buried today at the Plashet Jewish Cemetery in London.
1899:
Birthdate of Russian native and Washington, DC automobile dealer Joseph Cherner
the husband of Ruth Cherner who was a major financial contributor to Israel
during the early days of the Jewish State,
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/04/18/84884426.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1899(12th
of Nisan, 5659): Fast of the First Born
1899: Dr.
Joseph Silverman delivered a lecture on the “Longevity of the Hebrews.”
1899(12th
of Nisan, 5659): Twenty-eight-year-old Sergeant Morris J. Cohen, the New Jersey
resident serving with the 20th Kansas Regiment “was killed today in
an engagement at Calcoocan, Philippine Islands.
1899: It was
reported today that during the month of February the United Hebrew Charities
had received 2,815 applications for assistance which covered 9,377
individuals. Jobs were found for 477
applicants while over 1,800 people were seen by either a doctor or a nurse. The charity raised over $17,000 during
February and spent almost $13,000 in providing aid to the needy.
1900:
Birthdate of Erich Seligman Fromm, the German born American psychoanalyst
http://www.uta.edu/huma/illuminations/kell9.htm
1901(23rd
of Nisan, 5661): Parashat Vayikra
1901: It was
reported today that General Louis Botha, the leader of the Boers, was
“generally in favor of the terms of the settlement” he was “greatly concerned
about the position Jewish capitalist would occupy in the country and” he “was
told that Jews and Christians would enjoy equal rights,” with “no distinction
being made in the matter of concessions.
1901: The
former Annie Pauline Alberts and Phillip Sihisky who were married by Rabbi
David Shane at the Sons of Israel Synagogue in Camden are “on a bridal tour”
after which they will return to Camden, the home of the bride’s father Isaac
Alberts.
1902(14th of
Adar II, 5662): Purim
1902: Russian
native and Philadelphian Dora (Weinstein) Aronoff and her husband Isaac Aronoff
gave birth to Ida Aronoff
1903:
According to a report filed today by the St. Petersburg correspondent of the
London Times, “the four points on which reforms are required in Russia –
education, local government, peasant’s rights and finances – the Czar’s
manifesto is worthless” and “and the manifesto obviously did not apply to the
Jews…”1904: “Hamilton Odell, the referee appointed to determine what
institution should be paid the reside of the estate of the late Simon
Goldenberg upon the death of his widow Mary Goldenberg reported to the Supreme
Court” in New York today “in favor of the Hebrew Technical Institute.”
1903: It was
reported today that Dr. Joseph Silverman of Temple Emanu-El had said that “it
is certainly high time that a more liberal form of government should be
inaugurated in Russia, the land of ignorance and poverty, of political
corruption and bribery, of social religious oppression and persecution, of
intolerance and bigotry, the land where it has been said that more deaths have
occurred in recent years than in all Napoleonic wars.”
1904:
“Hamilton Odell, the referee appointed to determine to what institution should
be paid the residue of the estate of the late Simon Goldenberg upon the death
of the widow, Mary Goldenberg, reported to the Supreme today in favor of the
Hebrew Technical Institute.
1905:
Penultimate session of the convention of the Constitution Grand Lodge of the
Independent Order of B’nai B’rith meeting in New Orleans.
1905: Julius
Loeb, the Frankfurt-on-Main bon son of Minna Cahn and Adolf Loeb and Vice
President and Treasurer of the American Metal Company who was a trustee of the
Hebrew Orphan Asylum and the Central Synagouge married Hilda Neuberger today in
New York.
1906: In New
York, Carrie Wasserman gave birth to Edith Lee Wasserman who became Edith Lee
Kamsler when she married Charles Albert Kamsler.
1907: In New
York this evening, enough poor Jews presented their tickets which could be
exchanged for 10 pounds of Matzoth and 5 pounds of floor to the store on
Attorney Street, that 20,000 pounds of matzoth and 10,000 pounds of Matzah
floor were needed to meet the demand.
1907(8th
of Nisan, 5667): Parashat Tzav; Shabbat HaGadol
1907:
Birthdate of Solomon “Sol” Furth, the Brooklyn born track star nicknamed
“Happy” who competed in the 1932 Olympics.
1907: Today,
in Paris, Dr. Max Nordau told a meeting of French Zionists “that it was
necessary to immediately prepare for the next Zionist Congress” and that they
need “to organize the plans for the future of the Zionist movement.”
1907:
Birthdate of Latvia native Moses Cyrus Weiler, the HUC trained rabbi referred
to as “an unsung hero of the struggle for black emancipation in South Africa.
http://www.unitedsisterhood.org.za/index.php/about-us/rabbi-moses-cyrus-weiler
http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0215/ms0215.html
1907: When “a
small boy with red brick hair” presented his ticket entitling him to 10 pounds
of Matzah and 5 pounds of Matzah flour, he was told that “these matzoth are
only provided for person of true Hebraic faith.” The lad replied, “Me name is
Mickey O’Brien, but sure me mother needs the matzoth. We’re most starving and if
it’ll do any good I’ll be an Irish Hebrew.” The lad got his matzoth and flour.
[It was not unusual for non-Jews to show up for when free food was passed out
at Passover time. The Jews did not seem to mind apparently remembering the
words of the Haggadah inviting the poor to come and join us in eating at the
Seder.]
1908(20th of
Adar II, 5668): Seventy-two-year-old Nathan Stix, the German born son of
Deborah Cohen and Solomon Stix who in 1861 at Cincinnati, OH married Ricka
Iglauer with whom who had six children, passed away today after which he was
buried at the Walnut Hills Jewish Cemetery in Evanston, OH.
1908: It was
reported today that “for the ninth time in two months” an attempt has been made
by unfriendly Chinese tongs to burn the tenement at 42 Division Street which is
occupied by Jews as well as Chinese.
1909: “The
unions of Jewish choristers, musicians, ushers and bill posters in the east
side theatres order a strike” today “of their members in the Thalia Theatre,
involving about eighty persons against a notice of a reduction in wages.”
1910:
Birthdate of Avraham Givelber, the secretary of the Polish branch of HeHalutz
(The Pioneer), “Jewish youth movement that trained young people for
agricultural work in Israel” who joined Kibbutz Afek when he made Aliyah in
1941 and “who was appointed Deputy Speaker of the Knesset while serving as an
MK from 1974 to 1977.
https://main.knesset.gov.il/en/MK/APPS/mk/mk-personal-details/337
1910(12th
of Adar II, 5670): Hume, Germany native Joseph Brandestein, the San Francisco
tobacco and cigar merchant and leader in the Jewish community as can be seen by
his service to the Pacific Hebrew Orphan Asylum, Mt. Zion Hospital Association
and Congregation Emanu-El who married Jane Rosenbaum with whom he had eleven
children including Max, Manfred and Edward passed away today.
http://www.jmaw.org/brandenstein-jewish-san-francisco/
1911(23rd of
Adar, 5671): Daniel Abramovich Chwolson passed away.
1912(5th
of Nisan, 5672): Ninety-year-old communal worker Hezekiah Kohn passed away
today in New York.
1913(14th
of Adar II, 5673): Purim
1913:
Eighty-year-old Civil War veteran Adam Mayer passed away today in New Orleans.
1913: Dr.
George Gershon Jacob Gordon, the Minneapolis born on of Abraham Bear Gordon and
Sarah Beulah (Shub) Beulah Gordon and his wife Sophie Gordon gave birth Bonny
Selz, the wife of Joseph Selz.
1914:
Birthdate of Spencer Bernard Witty, the native of Waccabuc, NY who with his
four brothers Frederic, Ephraim and Arthur, and a cousin, Irving expanded the
business created by their grandfather David Witty into a “chain” of six store
that sold classy, high-end clothing for men.
1914: It was reported from St. Petersburg
“that as …Passover approaches more blood ritual allegations are being
circulated.” In Uman, in the Ukraine, reports are circulating “that a Christian
boy, Anton Zummer, who was working in a bakery at a machine for making
matzoth…had his hand thrust in the machinery by the Jewish boys and lost a
large quantity of blood which went to the making of the bread…Another report
speaks of the finding of an 8-year old boy’s body under a railway bridged at
Kovel…with the head, neck and chest pierced with wounds.” [This is the same
Uman that is the burial site of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov which Jews visit each
year at Rosh Hashanah.]
1915: The
United Hebrew Community has sent out an appeal for more funds to so it can
distribute matzoth and other food to the poor Jews of the Lower East Side
before the beginning of Passover. Moses H. Phillips, President of the Hebrew
Community said that the demand is greater this year than in years past and at
least 90,000 pounds of food will be needed to feed the needy. The United Hebrew
Community is only one of several Jewish organizations that will be distributing
food at Passover time to their less fortunate co-religionists.
1915: Adelphi
College and NYU alum Milton M. Adler, the New York City born son of Rebecca
Bamberger and David Adler and Treasurer and General Manager of the Essex
Specialty Company as well as the executive director of the Williamsburg
Y.M.H.A. married Florine Wolf today in Newark, NJ.
1915: The fund
of the American Jewish Relief Committee has collected $579,996. 53 as of today.
1915: The Zion
Mule Corps, consisting of Jewish volunteers from Palestine, was formed to serve
with the British Army. This was the first Palestinian Jewish military unit
attached to a regular army in the modern times. The unit was organized under
the command of Joseph Trumpeldor, an early military hero of the future state of
Israel and Vladimir Jabotinsky who would become leader of what was known as the
Revisionist Movement, forerunner of today’s Likud part. The united fought
against the Turks who were allies of the British. The success of the Zion Mule
Corps paved the way for the Jewish Legion which was formed in 1918.
1915:
Sixty-six-year-old “Judge Leonard S. Roan of the Court of Appeals of Georgia
before whom Leo M. Franks was convicted and by whom he was sentenced to death
on August 16, 1913 for the murder of…Mary Phagan” passed away today.
1915:
According to family legend, today, in Brooklyn “Louis and Sarah Rabinowitz,
Yiddish-speaking immigrants from Russia” gave birth to Jacob Rabinowitz who
gained fame as producer and talent-maven Jack Rollins. (As reported by Robert
D. McFadden)
1916: In St.
Louis, at Rabbi Masliansky and Rabbi Abranowitz told those attending “a relief
meeting” at “B’nai Emuno Synagogue” about “the sufferings of the Jews in the
war zones” “more than $1,000 was raised through the sale of certificates
bearing the recent proclamation of President Wilson naming a Jewish Relief
Day.”
1916(18th
of Adar II, 5676): Seventy-two year old Colonel Felix Rosenberg, the Civil War
veteran who “came to Cleveland after the Civil War, was a brevet colonel in the
Spanish-American War” and the “editor of Town Topics, a weekly publication
devoted to local high society news” passed away today in Cleveland.
1917(29th
of Adar, 5677): Fred Lazarus, the Wurtenburg, Germany born son of Amelia
and Simon Lazarus, and husband of Rose Eichberg who with was the “F” in F. and
R. Lazarus Company passed away today in Columbus, OH.
https://www.columbusmonthly.com/news/20190603/from-archives-end-of-lazarus-dynasty
1917: As of
today, it was reported that the People’s and Central Relief Committees are
raising funds for the relief of Jews in war-torn Europe along with the American
Jewish Relief Committee led by Henry Morgenthau, Louis Marshall and Herbert
Lehman.
1917: The
United States Ambassador to Russia today sent a cablegram to the State
Department stating, “that the new Russian Government had taken its first
important step toward the emancipation of the Jews by removing the education
restrictions previously imposed under the old regime.”
1917: In a
letter to the British and French Ambassadors to the United States, Oscar
Straus, Chairman of the Public Service Commission expressed the opinion that
“the great majority of the Jewish citizens of the United States are pro-Ally
and not pro-German.”
1917:
Birthdate of Yevgeny Khaldei the Soviet born Jewish World War II combat
photographer whose work included one of the most famous of that genre showing a
Soviet soldier raising a flag over the Reichstag as the Red Army triumphed in the Battle of Berlin. According to some reports Khaldei patterned
the picture after the one of the flag raising over Iowa Jima, another iconic WW
II photo taken by a Jewish photographer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Reichstag_flag_original.jpg
1918(10th
of Nisan, 5678): Parashat Tzav; Shabbat HaGadol
1918:
Fifty-eight-year-old Clara Mitnick Massell, the Russian born wife of Raphael M.
Massell and the mother of Benjamin, Levi, Samuel, Rebie and Jacob Massell
passed away today after which she was buried in the Oakland Cemetery in
Atlanta, GA.
1918: Rabbi
Samuel Schulman is scheduled to deliver the sermon this morning at Temple
Beth-El on-5th Avenue.
1918: Rabbi
Krass is scheduled to deliver a sermon “A Lesson from The Copperhead” at
Central Synagogue.
1918: Rabbi
Enelow is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “The Basic Doctrines of Reform
Judaism” at Temple Emanu-El.
1918: Rabbi
M.H. Harris is scheduled to deliver a sermon “The Great Sabbath” this morning
at Temple Israel of Harlem
1918: Today’s
issue of The Publisher’s Weekly
included Jewish Fairy Stories by Gerald Friedlander and illustrated by
Beatrice Hirschfeld among its listings.
https://www.amazon.com/Jewish-Fairy-Tales-Gerald-Friedlander/dp/0486419827
1919: Benito
Mussolini founded his Fascist political movement in Milan, Italy. The ashes of
the First World War were not even cool yet when the seeds for World War II and
the Holocaust were being planted.
1919:
Birthdate of Marvin “Mickey” Rottner the Chicago native who played guard for
the Loyola University basketball team from 1939 to 1942 after which he played
professional basketball from 1945 to 1948.
1919:
Birthdate of Henry Foner, the native of Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood
who was a decorated veteran of the United States Army whose labor organizing
activity included serving as president of the Joint Board of Fur, Leather and
Machine Workers Union.
http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/tam_254/
http://ilgwu.ilr.cornell.edu/archives/oralhistories/henryfoner.html
1920: “Poster
displayed at Damascus, where the Syrian Congress proclaimed the independence of
that country declared: ‘In spite of himself the Moslem is brother to the
Christian and the Jew.”
1920: It was
reported today that Henry Morgenthau, the former Ambassador to Turkey and ally
of President Wilson, is the leading candidate to become the Ambassador to
Mexico.
1921(13th
of Adar II, 5681): Ta’anit Esther; Erev Purim
1921: Today is
the second day of “The Palestine Bazar” organized by the Manchester Branch of
the Jewish National Fund Commission for England
1921: The
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary held commencement ceremonies today.
1921: KH-UIA
was registered as a British limited company, whose members, together with the
Chairman of the Board of Directors, were chosen by the WZO’s Executive Board.
KH-UIA’s founders included such luminaries as Chaim Weizmann, Aharon, and Isaac
Naidich. The first Directors were Barth Berthold Feiwel, Georg Halpern,
Vladimir Jabotinsky, Shlomo Kaplansky, Shemaryahu Levin, Issac Naidich, Israel
M. Sieff (later Lord Sieff) and Hillel Zlatopolsky.
1921:
Accompanied by Sir Herbert Samuel and T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)
Winston Churchill left Egypt for Palestine to begin his projected four week
long fact finding tour.
1922(23rd
of Adar, 5682): Eighty-one-year-old Harav Moshe Nachum Wallenstein who was born
in Pupa, Hungary, in 1841 and moved to Israel in 1864 where he served the
community as a rabbi passed away today.
1922: In
Pittsburgh, PA, Louis and Elsie Alpern gave birth to Morton Alpern who gained
fame as comedian Marty Allen. (As reported by Peter Keepnews)
1923:
Yorkshire native Gertrude Berger and Albert Halson gave birth to Dennis Charles
Halson who passed away before he reached the age of two months.
1923: “Louis
Marshall was the guest of honor at a dinner given by the Brooklyn Federation of
Jewish Charities at which campaign plans of the Charities were discussed.” (As
reported by JTA)
1924(17th of
Adar II, 5684): Moses Cattaui Pashe, President of the Jewish Kehillah of Cairo,
Egypt passed away.
1925: It was
reported today that the newly elected officers of the New York branch of the
United Synagogue of America are President Sol Mutterperl; Vice Presidents, Leo
J. Goldberger, Alfred Goldfarb, Jacob Monsky, Hyman J. Reit, Albert Rosenblatt,
Morris Stern and Harris Sussman; Secretary, Rabbi Samuel M. Cohn; and
Treasurer, Joseph Durst.
1926: Mrs.
Jacob H. Schiff, the Honorary Chairman of the Women’s Division of the United
Jewish Campaign of New York hosted a tea at her Fifth Avenue home for “the
women who are organizing teams of workers for the campaign to raise six million
dollars that will start in April.
1926:
Birthdate of Norman Clifford ‘Norm” Mager whose accomplishments with the CCNY
and the Baltimore Bullets of the NBA were over-shadowed by his involvement in
the point shaving scandal.
1927: In
Detroit, anti-Semite and automobile manufacturer Henry Ford and his Dearborn Independent was an important
point today in the trial of Aaron Sapiro’s libel suit…when Judge Raymond banned
a series of letters” that proved Mr. Ford and his weekly newspaper had been
warned of the “falsity of the articles which are the basis for this trial.
1928(2nd
of Nisan, 5688): Forty-four-year-old grocery store owner John Peykel who came
to Sheboygan, WI thirty years ago and who was a member of Ahavas Sholum
congregation and of Davis Lodge, B’nai B’rith passed away today.
1928:
Birthdate of Mortimier H. Rydell, the multi-talented New York known as Mark
Rydell whose accomplishments including directing one of the greatest westerns
ever made – The Cowboys in which John Wayne actually acts instead of just
portraying John Wayne.
1929(11th
of Adar, 5689): Parashat Vayikra; Shabbat Zachor
1929: A week
after being “named to the three-man Secretariat at the helm of the Communist
Party and assuming the post of Executive Secretary.” Benjamin Gitlow, the son
of Katherine and Lewis Albert Gitlow who were Jewish immigrants to the United
States from the Russian Empire, “boarded an ocean liner for Moscow as part of a
10-person delegation seeking to appeal the Comintern’s decision to expel Jay
Lovestone , the son of Lithuanian Jewish immigrants Emma Liebstein and Barnet
Libstein, a rabbi turned “shammas,” from the Communist Party.”
1929:
Birthdate of author James Maxwell whose works include “The Night Everything Was
Simple” in which “Zionist plans for Palestine are viewed with approval” and
“Village Incident” and “Strictly From the Mississippi” in which “the Jewish
characters are presented sympathetically.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1948/03/25/94941819.pdf
1930: ““The
Administrative Committee of the enlarged Jewish Agency is meeting in London
today.
1930: The front page of the New York Times sports section featured a picture of Penn State
Boxer David Stoop knocking out his opponent as Penn State University
successfully defended its intercollegiate title.
http://images.rarenewspapers.com/ebayimgs/3.90.2015/image078.jpg
1931: In
Warsaw, Mordechai Bernstein, a journalist and “the former Zelda Goldin, a
seamstress and Spanish teacher” gave birth to Masha Bernstein who survived the
Holocaust and Siberia to gain fame as Masha Leon, “the society columnist for
The Forward.” (As reported by Sam Roberts)
1932(15th
of Adar II, 5692): Shushan Purim
1932(15th
of Adar II, 5692): Sixty-five-year-old Boris Schatz, the Lithuanian born
sculptor who became known as the “father of Israeli art,” founded the
Bezalel School in Jerusalem passed away today.
http://www.schatz.co.il/en/boris
1933: Hitler
“told the Reichstag today that Positive Christianity was the “unshakeable
foundation of the moral and ethical life of our people”, and promised not
to threaten the churches or the institutions of the Republic if granted plenary
powers.”
1933: The
Jewish War Veterans (JWS) launched a boycott of German goods in the United
States today making it the first organization in the U.S. to launch such an
economic action
1933:
Birthdate of Shlomo Ofek the native of Poland who perished aboard the Submarine
Dakar in 1968.
1933:
Birthdate of Abraham “Abe” Cohen who after playing football and wrestling at
the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga went to play professional football for
the CFL Hamilton Tiger Cats and one season for the newly minted AFL Boston
Patriots in 1960.
1934(6th
of Nisan, 5694): Birthdate of Chappaqua, NY native Victor Guinzburg, the
“developer of a formula for treating rubber for gas masks.”
1934: In what
has to be one of the biggest lies of this period, “Hans Frank, the Nazi
Commissioner said at a police meeting today” that “overzealous anti-Semites
will be relentlessly curbed.
1934: It was
reported today “that a number ‘non-Christian’ doctors have been informed” that
their contracts will not be renewed which is consistent with the anti-Semitic
government in Vienna to reduce the number of Jewish doctors and to impoverish
the Jewish community.
1935(20th
of Adar I, 5695) Parashat Ki Tisa
1935: The
lower house voted to accept the New Constitution which Jewish leaders
complained about because “Jews will be left without representation in the next
parliament if the proportional vote is not restored.”
1935: Speaking
before the Union of American Hebrew Congregation, Jacob W. Mack of Cincinnati
said that “Jewish unity and self-help: were the “only present strength and
future hope” of the Jewish people.
1936: Darius
Paul Dassault was promoted to the rank of Division General (général de
division) in the French Army.
1936: In
Hackensack, NJ, “the Board of Education voted unanimously at its meeting
tonight not ban the ‘Merchant of Venice’ from the second year high school
English course because of complaints” voiced “by Rabbi Irving Silman of the
Hackensack Hebrew Institute.”
1936: Jack
Singer and Harry Kovner were elected co-captains of next year’s City College
basketball team, according to an announcement made today by the, faculty
athletic manager.
1936: “David
J. Schweitzer, vice chairman of the American Jewish Joint Distribution
Committee outlined the problems facing the committee which is engaged in a
$3,500,000 drive in this county, $1,500,000 of which” is supposed to come from
New York,
1937: Two days
after he had passed away funeral services were held today for
sixty-four-year-old British born historian and Zionist leader Jacob De Haas in
his home where per his request Rabbi David De Sola Pool of the Spanish and
Portuguese Synagogue officiated at a simple, private ceremony followed by
burial at Cypress Hills Cemetery in Queens, NY.
http://www.amazon.com/History-Of-Palestine-Thousand-Years/dp/1406709301
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1937/03/22/94345411.pdf
1937: It was
reported today that sixty-four-year-old Jacob de Haas one of the last surviving
founding fathers of the Zionist movement had passed away
1937: The
French Fascist, led by “La Cagoule” were thwarted in their attempt to overthrow
the Third Republic when Leon Blum’s Popular Front government avoided a vote of
“no confidence.”
1938: In New
York, Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver of Cleveland delivered his first address as
national chairman of the United Palestine Appeal. After being introduced by
Louis Nizer, associate chairman of the division and chairman of the Film Board
of Trade, Rabbi Silver asked a luncheon meeting of more than 100 theatrical and
motion picture executives to support the drive to raise $4,500,000 to support
Zionist activities. He gave a glowing account of the progress that had been in
creating a Jewish Homeland. He spoke specifically about the challenges created
by the worsening situation in Europe and the efforts that have been to settle
refugees, especially those from Germany, in Eretz Israel. Silver equated the
Zionist work in Palestine with the fight against the rise of totalitarianism.
1938. Rabbi
Abba Hillel Silver spoke to a meeting of the Long Island Conference for
Palestine at the Jamaica Jewish Center this evening. The more than 1,000
attendees representing thirty-four communities in Queens, Nassau and Suffolk
counties adopted a resolution agreeing to raise $75,000 for the United
Palestine Appeal.
1938:
“Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife,” a romantic comedy directed and produced by Ernst
Lubitsch and a screenplay co-authored by William Wilder was released today in
the United States.
1938: In
Paris, Adam and Pauline Kaufman gave birth to Michael Kaufman a “foreign
correspondent, reporter and columnist for The New York Times who chronicled
despotic regimes in Europe and Africa, the fall of Communism and the changing
American scene for four decades.”
1939: “The
Swing Mikado,” an adaptation of the Gilbert and Sullivan opera “The Mikado”
starring Bill “Bojangles” Robinson produced by Mike Todd, the son of “Chaim Goldbogen (an Orthodox rabbi), and
Sophia Hellerman, both of whom were Polish Jewish immigrants” opened on
Broadway today.
1939: Erich
Maria Remarque, the author of All Quiet on the Western Front whose books
were burned by the Nazis arrived in New York today and “said he had come here
to study America, learn the language and write a book dealing with the
persecution of the Jews”
1939: “Eleven
members of the old and prosperous Italian Fornari family,” including forty year
old Raffaele, his wife Celesete and their two children Vitoria and Alberto,
“that traces its history in Rome back for 300 years arrived yesterday on the
Italian liner Rex as refugees from the recent anti-Semitic edicts of the
Fascist party.”
1940: The
All-India-Muslim League called for a Muslim homeland in the Indian
sub-continent. The British response would be to partition India into a Hindu
state of India and a Moslem state, Pakistan. The demands of the by the Muslims
living in India were part of a wave of Muslim nationalism that had been
sweeping the lands of North Africa and the Middle East since the start of the
20th century. The conflict in Palestine should be viewed within that context.
The similarity of the British response in Palestine and India (Partition) is
also worth noting.
1940: David
Samuel Margoliouth, the Oxford University Professor whose father Ezekiel had
converted from Judaism to Anglicanism passed away today.
1941: “An
elaborate German “show trial,” to be held after the war in an effort
to reveal a world-wide Jewish-Masonic plot to kill many high Nazi leaders, is
being organized by Heinrich Himmler, chief of the Gestapo [secret police], it
was reported in Vichy tonight.”
1941: It was
announced today that “representatives of Jewish organizations in forty-eight
cities and twenty-six states have associated themselves with the Jewish section
of the Interfaith Committee for Aid to Democracies.
1942: Of the
approximately 4,000 remaining Jews in Lublin, Poland 2,500 were massacred and
the rest of them were deported to Majdanek for extermination. At the start of
the war, 40,000 of the 125,000 inhabitants of Lublin had been Jewish.
1942:
Birthdate of Yevhen Lapinsky who played on the Soviet Union Volleyball Team
that won the Gold Medal at the Olympics in 1968.
1943 (16th of
Adar II, 5703): Twenty-nine Jewish orphans at La Rose Orphanage in Les Accates,
France, as well as Alice Salomon, the guardian who refused to leave them two
months before, were gassed at the Sobibor death camp. The Alice Salomon
mentioned here is not to be confused with the famed German intellectual who
fled Nazi Germany before World War II and passed away in New York in 1948. At
the same time, one must wonder who says Kaddish for this otherwise unknown
brave soul and the 29 youngsters who were in her care.
1943: The
Gestapo arrested Henri Krasucki, his mother and other members of the French
resistance.
1943: In
France, 4000 Jews were deported from Marseilles, interned briefly at Drancy,
France, and then deported to Sobibór
1943: The
Archbishop of Canterbury William Temple stood up in front of the House of Lords
in London and pleaded with the British government to help the Jews of Europe.
“We at this moment have upon us a tremendous responsibility,” he
said. “We stand at the bar of history, of humanity, and of God.” Ever
since news of Hitler’s plan to annihilate the Jews of Europe reached the public
in late 1942, British church leaders and members of Parliament had been
agitating for something to be done. Temple’s plea marked the culmination of the
clamoring.
1944: British
Major-General Orde Wingate died in airplane crash while fighting the Japanese
in Burma during World War II. “Wingate was an unconventional person in many
respects. Among his other unique qualities was that he was an officer in the
British Army, who, while serving in Palestine during the 1930’s supported the
Jewish cause. Then Captain Wingate served in Israel from 1936 until 1939. Born
in 1903 to a religious Christian family and a firm believer in the Bible, Orde
Wingate passionately embraced the prophetic vision of Jewish redemption and the
Jews’ ultimate return to Eretz Yisrael. During his service in Eretz Yisrael, he
worked to help realize that ideal. The son of a British officer, Wingate was
born in India, received a military education, and was commissioned in 1923. He
served in India and then in the Sudan, where he studied Arabic and Semitics,
and acquired a familiarity with the Middle East. Wingate was recognized as a
talented officer, and by 1936 he had earned the rank of captain. That same year
he was transferred to Eretz Yisrael and served there for the next three years.
Wingate arrived in Eretz Yisrael as an intelligence officer at a time when
small bands of Arab rioters were regularly attacking both the British and the
Jews. To counter this offensive, Wingate organized and trained “Special Night
Squads,” comprised primarily of Haganah fighters, which were successfully
employed throughout the Yishuv. Their tactics were based on the strategic
principles of surprise, mobility, and night attacks and they served effectively
both as defensive and offensive units, successfully pre-empting and resisting
Arab attacks. Wingate maintained good contacts with the heads of the Yishuv and
the Haganah. He learned Hebrew, and he demonstrated his ardent belief that the
Jews were entitled to their homeland in Eretz Yisrael. He also recognized the
need for a working military force, and he dreamed of heading the army of the
future Jewish state. Because of his efforts and support, he was called in the
Yishuv “ha-yedid,” the friend. Wingate’s intense support for the Zionist
viewpoint, however, was controversial, and in 1939 the British succumbed to
Arab pressure and transferred Wingate from Eretz Yisrael. His passport was
stamped with the restriction that he not be allowed to re-enter the country.
His personal involvement with the Zionist cause was thus curtailed, but many of
those he trained became heads of the Palmach and, later, the Israel Defense
Forces Wingate returned briefly to Great Britain, but, recognized for his
military talent, he was transferred to further active duty. In 1941 he led the
force in Ethiopia against the Italians and was a major figure in liberating the
country. He then worked in Burma, organizing and training the Chindits, a
special jungle unit that operated behind Japanese lines. Wingate was killed in
an airplane crash in Burma in 1944 and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery
in Virginia. Wingate’s friendship for the Yishuv and his contributions to its
defense has been recognized through the several places in Israel named for him,
including the College of Physical Education near Netanya.”
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/wingate.html
http://www.zionism-israel.com/bio/Charles_Orde_Wingate.htm
1944: At
Ioannina in Greece, 1,860 Jews were seized by the Nazis and deported to
Auschwitz.
1944:
Birthdate of Michael Laurence Nyman the native Stratford, London the
multi-talented musician who has done it all from concert pianist, to composing
movie scores and to the creation of operas.
1945: In
Buffalo, Elmer and Mollie Milch gave birth to Yale Phi Beta Kappa graduate
David Sanford Milch the husband of Rita Stern, the screenwriter and television
producer who created “NYPD Blue” with Steven Bocho.
1945:
Forty-three-year-old Elisabeth de Rothschild, the Catholic wife of Baron
Philippe de Rothschild was murdered today at Ravensbruck concentration camp.
1945: It was
reported that the police and the District Attorney’s office are still seeking to solve the mystery surrounding the fatal
stabbing of Samuel Zuckerman, 50 years old, outside the doorway of his sixth
floor home in the Euclid Apartments, 2345 Broadway, early yesterday, when he
was summoned to answer a telephone call and that the police had questioned
45-year-old Dorothy Zuckerman his wife of six months, his daughter Helen Meyer,
her husband Private Leo Myer and his brother Leo Zuckerman about the murder
without gaining any additional information.
1946(20th
of Adar II, 5706): Parashat Tzav; Shabbat Parah
1946: The
American Joint Distribution Committee announced today in Paris that it “has
arranged to prove 1,866,000 pounds of unleavened bread to Jewish communities in
nearly every country” in Euopre.
1947: The
executive committee of the Jewish Agency for Palestine ended its deliberations
today. The committee has been meeting in Jerusalem to plan tactics for the
upcoming special session of the United Nations being held to deal with the
issue of Palestine.
1947:
Birthdate of classical pianist Kaplinsky, the native of Tel Aviv who became a
professor of music at Julliard.
1948: “The
Search” a “film directed by Fred Zinnemann which tells the story of a young
Auschwitz survivor and his mother who search for each other across post-World
War II Europe” was released today.
1948: David
Ben-Gurion “cabled the United States State Department a warning that he and his
colleagues would with all of their strength oppose any postponement of Jewish
independence.” The U.S. State Department, the body that had done so much to
keep Jews from getting to the United States during the Hitler period, was busy
trying to sabotage President Truman’s support of partition and the creation of
a Jewish state.
1949(23rd
of Adar,5709): Rabbi Louis M. Epstein the Lithuanian bon son of Rebecca Mehle
and Rabbi Ezriel Epstein, the husband of Minnie Hannah Winner, the holder of
earned degrees from JTS, Columbia and Harvard and President of JTS from 1921 to
1925 who began leading Kehillath Israel in 1925 and was the author of “The
Jewish Marriage Contract” passed away today.
1949:
“Detective Story” a three act play by Sidney Kingsley opened on Broadway at the
Hudson Theatre.
1949: Israel
and Lebanon signed an armistice agreement. Israeli troops withdrew from border
towns they had occupied during the fighting. Lebanon would not become a major
area of operations until decades later when the PLO was thrown out of Jordan
and took refuge in Lebanon.
1949: In an
attempt to break the deadlock between Israel and Transjordan over the shape of
the border between the two states, Yigael Yadin, Walter Eytan, Moshe Dayan and
Yehoshafat Harkabi (future director of Israeli Military Intelligence) went to
meet King Abdullah at his villa in Shuneh Yigal. Yadin’s flawless recitation of
a poem in Arabic served as an icebreaker. Despite initial setbacks, the two
sides would reach an understanding that night.
1950: “The new
Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Msgr. Alberto Gori, paid his first official visit
to Israel today. He met the diplomatic corps and senior officers of the Foreign
Affairs, Interior and Religious Affairs Ministries at a reception in Jaffa.”
1951(15th
of Adar II, 5711): Shushan Purim
1951(15th of
Adar II, 5711): Michael H. Cardozo Jr. of 163 East Eighty-first Street, veteran
attorney, passed away today in his office at 115 Broadway at the age 70. He was
a cousin of the late Associate Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo of the United States
Supreme Court.
1951: After
premiering in New York City and Los Angeles, “Royal Wedding, the Alan Jay
Lerner musical comedy directed by Stanley Donen was released throughout the
rest of the United States today.
1954:
Mathematician Jacob Bronowski, the father of Lisa Jardine, “delivered his own
Conway Memorial Lecture today.”
1956(11th
of Nisan, 5716): Cantor and composer
Isaac Hirshow, (aka Yitzak Gershov, the Russian born son of Simon Gershov )
“the first person to obtain a Bachelor of Music degree at the University of
Glasgow and of the cantor at the Chevra
Kadisha synagogue in the Gorbals area of Glasgow” before moving to Garnethill
Synagogue in 1925, where he served for the next thirty years passed away today
after which he “was interred at Garnethill Hebrew Burial Ground.”
1956: New York
State Supreme Court Justice Henry Epstein officiated at the wedding of actress
Rita Gam, to Yale Graduate and WW II Marine Corps veteran “Thomas H. Guinzburg,
the son of Harold K. Guinzburg, publisher of the Viking Press” today.
1957: The
University of North Carolina led by Lennie Rosenbluth won the NCCA Men’s
Division I Basketball Tournament in Kansas City, MO.
1959(13th
of Adar II, 5719): Fast Esther; Erev Purim
1959(13th
of Adar II, 5719): Sixty-seven Sam Born, the Russian born American “candyman”
who founded Just Born Company, maker of such sweet treats as Peeps passed away
today.
1960:
Seventy-eight-year-old Franklin Pierce Adams, the Chicago born son of Moses and
Clara Schlossberg Adams and writer known simply as F.P.A. who was a member of
the famous Algonquin Round Table passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/03/25/105423068.pdf
1962: Abraham
Ellstein’s only opera, “The Golem” which he created with his wife Sylvia Regan
premiered today at the New York City Opera a year and a day before he passed
away under the baton of Julius Rudel who had fled his native Austria when the
Nazis took over.
1962: Arthur
Fiedler and his wife visited the Marshal Space Flight Center today.
1962: In its
review of the Broadway musical “I Can Get It for You Wholesale,” The New York Times proclaimed “The
evening’s find is Barbara Streisand, a girl with an oafish expression, a loud
irascible voice and an arpeggiated laugh. Miss Streisand is a natural
comedienne” By the time Streisand made her Broadway debut in “I Can Get It
for You Wholesale,” she had already developed a loyal following as a singer. In
performances at the Lion Club, one of New York City’s premier gay clubs, and in
other clubs around the country, the young Streisand developed her trademark
outsider persona, impromptu one-liners, and theatrical delivery that brought
audiences to their feet. Streisand’s performance as Miss Marmelstein in I Can
Get It for You Wholesale was so successful that the role was expanded for her,
with new songs added. Despite national acclaim for her performance, she was
considered too Jewish, too eccentric, too unattractive, and too marked by her
Brooklyn upbringing for a record contract. When Columbia Records finally
released The Barbra Streisand Album in 1964, however, it remained on the charts
for eighteen months. Streisand’s movie debut in Funny Girl four years later, in
the Oscar-winning role of comedian Fanny Brice, cemented her place among the
stars of American theatre and film.
1963: Duke’s
Art Heyman was named the outstanding player at the 1963 NCC Men’s Division I
Basketball tournament which came to a close today
1963: Rolf
Hochhuth’s “Der Stellvertreter” (The Deputy), premiered in Berlin.
The Catholic Church was outraged at the portrayal of Pius XII as being
complicit in the murder of the Jews of Europe.
1964(10th of
Nisan, 5724): Actor Peter Lorre passed away passed away at the age of 59. Born
Ladislav (László) Löwenstein in what was then the Hungarian part of the
Austro-Hungarian Empire, Lorre gained fame as a character actor with parts in
such films as Casablanca and Arsenic and Old Lace. In the 1930’s he played the
title character the Mr. Motto detective films.
http://www.hitchcockwiki.com/wiki/The_Times_(25/Mar/1964)_-_Obituary:_Peter_Lorre
1968(23rd
of Adar, 5728) Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudi
1969:
Birthdate of Donte Phillip Spector, one of three children adopted by Phil
Spector and his second wife.
1970(15th
of Adar II, 5730): Shushan Purim
1970:
Birthdate of Justin Craig Duberman, the native of New Haven who after growing
up in Highland Park Illinois went on to play ice hockey for the University of
North Dakota and made it to the NFL as a right wing for the Pittsburgh
Penguins.
1970: Funeral
services are scheduled to be held today for seventy-two-year-old Cornell
University Phi Beta Kappa graduate
Murray Graham, the husband of the former Eleanor Kahn who rose from
being a sales clerk at Macy’s to be being a senior vice president for the
retail giant and who “was suporter of the Conference of Christians and Jews,
the Greater New York Fund, the United Jewish Appeal, the Red Cross, the
Salvation Army and the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies.
1971: NBC
broadcast the final episode of “Julia,” the ground-breaking sitcom created by
Savannah native Hal Kanter, co-starring Ezra Stone and with music by Elmer
Bernstein.
1972 (8th of
Nisan, 5732): Rabbi Chaim Meir Hager, who had been revered as Vizhnitzer Rebbe
for 35 years, passed away in Israel tonight.
1972: In
Paris, “a psychoanalyst whose parents were Holocaust survivors from Poland and
Russia” and his wife, a child therapist gave birth to author and actress Judith
Godreche, the wife of French actor Danny Boon.
1973: CBS
broadcast the last episode of daytime soap opera “Love Is a Many Splendored
Thing” created by Chicago native Irna Phillips.
1974: Senator
Ted Kennedy arrived in Moscow today where he spoke with Brezhnev about the
Middle East and immigration, two topics of importance to Jews in the United
States and Israel.
1974: “Leonid
Zabelishensky was released from prison today.”
1975: In
“Major Book on Holocaust” published today, Gerald F. Lieberman described the
negotiations that are “under way between Israel and an American company for the
publication of The Diary of Adam Czerniakow,” a document that a leading Jewish
scholar in Brooklyn College termed of major importance in understanding the
near destruction of European Jewry under the Nazis.
1978: The
first UNIFIL troops arrived in Lebanon for peacekeeping mission along the Blue
Line. The Blue Line was a demarcation between Israeli and PLO forces.
1979(24th of
Adar, 5739): One person was murdered and 13 more injured in a terrorist bombing
at Zion Square in Jerusalem.
1979: Abraham
David Sofaer began serving as Judge of the United States District Court for the
Southern District of New York,
1980: In “The
Two Faces of Israel’s Masada: Glory and Tragedy,” published today Carmia Borek
describes the varying view of this famous Jewish landmark.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=FB061EFA395C11728DDDAA0A94DB405B8084F1D3
1980:
Birthdate of Asaf Avidan an Israeli folk/rock musician known for his
breakthrough debut album, “The Reckoning”, which was created with a
group of backup musicians under the name “Asaf Avidan and the Mojos”.
The album received positive critical reviews and earned Avidan a nomination for
Best Israeli Artist at the upcoming MTV Europe Awards.
1980: Release
date in the United States for “Christ Stopped at Eboli” (Italian: Cristo si è
fermato a Eboli), a 1979 film adaptation of the book of the same name by Carlo
Levi.
1981(17th
of Adar II, 5741): Ninety-five-year-old German born American Chess champion
Edward Lasker who had been trained as an engineer and was a close friend of
fellow chess champion and distant relative Emanuel Lasker passed away today in
New York.
https://worldchesshof.org/hof-inductee/edward-lasker
1981: Shimon
Peres said in Tel Aviv today his party would make an effort to negotiate the
future status of Jerusalem with Saudi Arabia and would look seriously at the
possibility of peace with the Saudis.
1983(9th
of Nisan, 5743): Eighty-four-year-old Rabbi Saul Lieberman passed away.
http://www.joshyuter.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Saul-Lieberman-and-the-Orthodox-31.pdf
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/slieberman.html
1985: Jewish
singer Billy Joel wed supermodel Christie Brinkley
1986(12th of
Adar II, 5746): Twenty days after celebrating his 91st birthday, Rabbi
Moshe Feinstein passed away.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/feinstein-rabbi-moses
http://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/25/obituaries/thousands-mourn-talmudic-scholar.html
1987(22nd
of Adar, 5747): Eighty-five-year-old Morton Minsky, the last of the Minsky
brothers, passed away today.
1987: CBS
broadcast the first episode of the long running soap opera “The Bold and the
Beautiful” which would feature Tracey E. Bregman in the role of “Lauren
Fenmore.”
1988: In
Wellington, NZ, Israel national football team defeated Chinese Taipei, nine to
nothing.
1988(5th of
Nisan, 5748): Fifty-eight-year-old “Jim Jacobs, a boxing historian and a
co-manager of Mike Tyson, the heavyweight champion” passed away today.
1989: In
Philadelphia, Dr. Richard Cohen, who played tennis for the University of
Pennsylvania and played professional tennis for two years and his wife gave
birth to professional tennis player Julia Cohen, the sister of All-American
tennis player Josh Cohen.
1989: Stanley
Pons and Martin Fleischmann (who was a Jewish refugee from Nazi Europe)
announced that they had unlocked the mystery of cold fusion at the University
of Utah.
1991(8th
of Nisan, 5751): Parashat Tzav; Shabbat HaGadol
1991: It was
reported today that “Israel’s foreign debt rose by $260 million in 1990, to
$24.1 billion, reversing a decline since 1987…”
1991:
“Congress today approved but modified the revocation of $55 million in aid to
Jordan and a ban on military sales to allies who failed to fulfill their
pledges of financial assistance for the Persian Gulf war.”
1990: Release
date of “Pretty Woman” the comedy filmed under executive produce Laura Ziskin
and co-starring Jason Alexander (born Jay Scott Greenspan).
1992:
“Broadway Bound” a made for television movie based on Neil Simon’s play
co-starring Jonathan Silverman, featuring Jerry Orbach and Michele Lee and with
music by David Shire was broadcast for the first time tonight.
1993: Judith
Kaye began serving as Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
1993: A third
revival of “3 Men On A Horse” a play co-authored by George Abbott with a cast
that included Tony Randall, Jack Klugman and Jerry Stiller began previews at
the Lyceum Theatre.
1994(11th of
Nisan, 5754): Victor Lashchiver, employed as a guard at the Income Tax offices
in East Jerusalem, was shot and killed by terrorists near Damascus Gate on his
way to work. The Popular Front claimed responsibility for the attack.
1994: “Above
the Rim,” “a sports film co-written, stored and directed by Jeff Pollack” was
released in the United States today.
1995(21st of
Adar II, 5755): Author and screenwriter Irving Shulman passed away at the age
of 81.
http://articles.latimes.com/1995-03-28/news/mn-47894_1_irving-shulman
1997(14th of
Adar II, 5757): Purim
1997: The New York Times featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including
“The Vulnerable Observer Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart” by Ruth
Behar and “The Journey Home Jewish Women and the American Century” by
Joyce Antler. Among the more than 50 Jewish women chronicled in this tome are:
Sonya Abuza, an overweight immigrant in Hartford who had been deserted by her
husband, later became famous as a ”Gypsy of the footlights” named Sophie
Tucker. Henrietta Szold, the eldest of five daughters of a distinguished
Baltimore rabbi, established Hadassah, the largest women’s Zionist group in the
world, in 1912. Ruth Gruber, who at 20 was declared the youngest person in the
world to hold a doctorate, flew a secret mission for President Franklin D.
Roosevelt during World War II to help 1,000 refugees find asylum in Oswego,
N.Y. Goldie Mabovich Meyerson was born in Kiev, was raised and married in
Milwaukee, then moved to Palestine in 1921, where, known as Golda Meir, she
became Prime Minister of Israel. In this unique volume, Joyce Antler, who
teaches American studies at Brandeis University, blends history, anecdote and
biography to emphasize the achievement of these women, who attempted to satisfy
family, God and their own dreams at the same time. The book illuminates their
struggles for identity as well as the sexism and anti-Semitism they
encountered.
1998(25th
of Adar, 5758): Eighty-one-year-old American poet Hilda Morely and cousin of
Isaiah Berlin passed away today.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/hilda-morley
1999: Emanuel
Zisman left The Third Way and continued serving as independent MK.
1999(6th
of Nisan, 5759): Sculptor and “resident artist” artist and teacher at Reed
College in Oregon Martha Gold Littman, the daughter of Austrian writer, theatre
critic, journalist, art collector, and dealer Alfred Gold and the former
Margarethe Zadek and the estranged wife of Frederick Littman with whom “she had
her first solo show in 1940” passed away today.
2000: During
his meeting with President Ezer Weizman, Pope John Paul II “blessed the state
of Israel” after which he visited Yad Vashem.
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/about/events/pope/john_paul/
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/about/events/pope/john_paul/speech.asp
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/about/events/pope/john_paul/portrait.asp
2001(28th
of Adar, 5761): Eighty-seven-year-old Janice Levin, the art collector and
philanthropist whose husband attorney Philip J. Levin passed away in 1971,
passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/27/nyregion/janice-levin-87-philanthropist-of-the-arts.html
2002(10th
of Nisan, 5762): Parashat Tzav; Shabbat HaGadol
2002(10th
of Nisan, 5762): Seventy-three-year-old Oscar Winning set designer Richard
Sylbert passed away today.
2003(19th of
Adar II, 5763): Fritz Spiegl the Austrian-born musician, journalist,
broadcaster, humorist and collector who fled to England in 1939 to escape the
Nazis passed away today.
2003: The New York Times featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of interest to Jewish readers including
Regarding “The Pain of Others” by Susan Sontag and “Ending the
Vietnam War: A History of America’s Involvement in and Extrication From the
Vietnam War” by Henry Kissinger.
2004: Police
Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said the New York Department had increased
uniformed and plainclothes patrols at synagogues and in predominately Jewish
neighborhoods following an attack on Sheik Ahmed Yasssin, a founder of Hamas,
in Gaza City.
2005: March
Madness, the popular name for the national American collegiate basketball
champion competition took on a Jewish twist. A sixteen-year-old feud was
reignited by comments made by Deon Thomas a professional basketball player for
Maccabi Tel Aviv about University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Coach Bruce Pearl,
whose skill at bringing his unheralded hoopsters to the Sweet Sixteen may mark
him as the next Red Auerbach.
2005: The
Ensemble for the Romantic Century presented Fanny Mendelssohn: Out of Her
Brother’s Shadow, a theatrical concert featuring the music of Fanny Mendelssohn
at the Jewish Museum in New York.
2005(12th
of Adar II, 5765): Seventy-three-year-old Naftali Halberstam “the grand rabbi
of the Bobov Chasidic Sect” passed away today.” (As reported by Margalit Fox)
2005(12th
of Adar II, 5765): Eighty-five-year-old award winning British actor David
Kossoff passed away today in Hatfield, Hertforshire, England.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1486283/David-Kossoff.html
2006: Judith
Martin, known professionally as “Miss Manners” today “was a special guest
correspondent on The Colbert Report, giving her analysis of the manners with
which the White House Press Corps spoke to the President.”
2007(4th of
Nisan, 5767: Paul J. Cohen, American mathematician, and winner of the Fields
Medal, passed away.
2007: Tal
Friedman sang with “The Krayot” band in Tel Aiv today.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tal_Friedman_23032007.jpg
2007: An
international conference for Jewish theater professionals, artists, and
aficionados hosted by The Association for Jewish Theatre in conjunction with
the Jewish Theatre of Austria comes to an end.
2008: An
exhibition organized by guest curator Murray Zimiles entitled “Gilded Lions and
Jeweled Horses: The Synagogue to the Carousel has its last showing at the
American Folk Art Museum.
2008: The Sunday New York
Times book
section featured a review of “Liberty Of Conscience: In Defense of
America’s Tradition of Religious Equality” by Martha C. Nussbaum.
2008: The Washington Post book section featured a
review of Mark Evanier’s “Kirby: King of Comics” that describes the
life and times of Jack Kirby, the son of Austrian Jewish immigrants who had
such an impact on the comic book genre including the creation of The Fantastic
Four, The Hulk and Captain America.
2008(7th
of Nissan, 5778): In Paris, 85-year-old Holocaust survivor was murdered
allegedly by Yacine Mihoub and Alex Carrimbacus who shouted “Allah Akbar” as
they stabbed her.
2008: As
pilots began undergoing tests for cancer, a team of technical personnel from
the Israel Air Force flew to Fort Worth, Texas, for consultations with their
American counterparts and Lockheed Martin concerning the recent discovery of
carcinogenic material in an Israeli F-16I..
2008(16th of
Adar II, 5768): Rabbi Eli Teitelbaum, an ultra-Orthodox educator and innovator
who created a series of dial-in phone lines with lectures on sacred texts, died
today at the age of 68 http://forward.com/articles/13039/rabbi-eli-teitelbaum-dial-a-daf-creator–/
2009: At
Rutgers University, Professor Martin Bunzl, director of the Program in Jewish
Culture and Society, University of Illinois at Urbana delivers a lecture on
Israel, Islamophobia, and the Right Wing in Europe entitled “The New
Philo-Semitism.”
2009: Sports Illustrated magazine reported on
the recent death of 86 year old Bill Davidson who amassed a fortune in the
glass business owner the Detroit Pistons for 35 years and free spending
philanthropists. The magazine also noted that Davidson had run track at
Michigan and “was a charter member of the Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.
2009: The Aviv
String Quartet, founded in Israel in 1997, performs at Cornell College in Mount
Vernon, Iowa.
2009: In the
on-going saga of what was once the country’s leading kosher slaughtering
operation four companies bid for the assets of Agriprocessors in an auction
that began today. The bidding ended this evening night with offers reaching as
high as $5.5 million.
2010: The
AIPAC Policy Conference comes to a close.
2010: The New
York Times Knowledge Network and the Israeli Consulate are scheduled to team up
together to present the opening night of a weeklong event entitled The New
Israeli Cuisine in which participants will take a tour through the fascinating
evolution of Israel’s culinary scene. A melting pot of more than 60 different
ethnicities – from India to Morocco to Argentina – Israeli cuisine is one of
the world’s fastest emerging kitchens.
2010: The
Temple Mount Human Rights Group has scheduled a gathering for today in front of
the Mashbir department store in Jerusalem.
2010: The
President of the United States and the Prime Minister of Israel met this
evening in Washington, D.C.
2010: The UK
expelled an Israeli diplomat owing to claims that an embassy official from that
country forged passports, and David Miliband gave a public warning against
travel to Israel because of identity theft concerns
2010: As
German authorities pursue suspected Nazi war criminals to the last, a court in
Aachen convicted an 88-year-old former SS soldier today on charges of killing
three Dutch civilians in reprisal for attacks by Dutch resistance fighters in
1944. The case against the former soldier, Heinrich Boere, who is now a
stateless person, was depicted by German analysts as one of the last major war
crimes trials.
2010: The
ex-convict who killed a Canadian Jewish leader in Barbados last year was
sentenced to 10 years in prison. Curtis Joel Foster, 25, was sentenced today in
a Barbados court for killing Terry Schwarzfeld, who had just started her term
as president of Canadian Hadassah WIZO and was executive director of Ottawa’s
largest synagogue, Agudath Israel.
2011: The
75-minute dramatic oratorio, “From the Fire,” is scheduled to be presented in
New York City to mark the anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
and bring attention to contemporary examples of unsafe working conditions.
2011: Kathryn
Gleason, a professor of Archaeology and Landscape Architecture at Cornell, who
has excavated at Herod’s tomb and other sites in Israel is scheduled to deliver
a lecture at the 92nd St Y entitled “Archaeology In Israel: Herod’s World.”
2011: Today a
committee of the Knesset is scheduled to debate whether J Street is
sufficiently “committed” to Israel to be called a pro-Israel
organization.
2011: “Two
rockets exploded in Beersheba this morning, and ten mortar shells fell in the
Sha’ar Hanegev and Eshkol Regional Councils..”
2011: Seventy-nine-year-old
actress Elizabeth Taylor who converted to Judaism in 1959, had two Jewish
husbands (producer Mike Todd and crooner Eddie Fisher) and was such an ardent
supporter of Israel and Jewish causes such as the right of Soviet Jews to
emigrate, that her films were “were banned by Muslim countries throughout the
Middle East and Africa” passed away today.
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/23/local/la-me-elizabeth-taylorlong-20110324
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/mar/23/elizabeth-taylor-obituary
2011(17, Adar
II, 5771): “One woman died and 50 were injured after an explosion took place at
a bus station in central Jerusalem this afternoon. Police said that a bomb
exploded outside Egged bus number 74 at a station opposite the Jerusalem
Conference Center (Binyanei Ha’uma) in the center of town. Fifty people were
injured in the attack.
2011: It was
reported today that “The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is trying to identify
more than 1,000 children in photos that date from when they were scattered
across Europe at the end of World War II and taken in by relief agencies. The
museum’s “Remember Me” project seeks the public’s help in identifying 1,100
children among tens of thousands who were uprooted by the war. The museum is
posting the pictures, which are part of its collections, online and plans to
publish many of the images in newspapers and online forums. Museum officials
hope to learn who the children are, what happened to them and help reconnect
them to relatives who may also have been scattered. The museum says the number
of Holocaust survivors is dwindling with time.” (Associated Press)
2011(17th
of Adar II, 5771): Famed defense attorney Leonard I. Weinglass passed away
today at the age of 77. (As reported by Bruce Weber)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/us/25weinglass.html
2012:
“Gripsholm,” a movie about Berlin cabaret life in the inter-war years featuring
the life of a German-Jewish publisher as the leading character, is scheduled to
be shown in Atlanta, GA.
2012:
“Remembrance and “Ahead of Time” are schedule to be shown at the NoVA
International Jewish Film Festival in Fairfax, VA.
2012: As a
part of the movement started by National Day of Unplugging Jews will begin a
weekend complying with the Sabbath Manifesto.
2013:
Barak Obama is scheduled to return to the United States after completing his
first trip to Israel since being elected President.
2013:
Violinist Vadim Gluzman and pianist Agnela Yoffe are scheduled to perform at
the High School of Fashion Industries.
2013(12th
of Nisan, 5773): Shabbat HaGadol
2013:
“After the Houston Astros put him on waivers,” today “the Oakland A’s picked up
Nate Freiman, “the 26-year-old first baseman, who dominated opposing pitchers
during Team Israel’s World Baseball Classic bid last year and who hit .278 for
Houston during Spring Training, with 1 HR, two doubles, no walks and 7 whiffs
in 36 at-bats.
2013(12th
of Nisan, 5773): Ninety-three-year-old Canadian born American bodybuilder Joe
Weider who along with his brother carved a special niche in the world
competitive bodybuilding passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/25/sports/joe-weider-founder-of-a-bodybuilding-empire-dies-at-93.html
2013:
The worsening crisis in Syria necessitated restoring relations with Turkey,
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu wrote on his Facebook page this evening,
explaining the reasoning to his apology to Ankara over the death of nine
Turkish activists on board a Gaza-bound flotilla.
2013: US Secretary of State John Kerry began
nitty-gritty efforts at re-starting talks between Israel and the Palestinians
with a late-night meeting with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
2013:
An IDF jeep on patrol near the Syrian border was hit by gunfire this evening.
The IDF said the shots were fired from Syria, and that it was “checking
the circumstances surrounding the incident.”
2014:
Maestro Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra are scheduled to
return to Miami, for a concert featuring Bruckner’s Symphony No.8 in C minor
which is being dedicated in memory of Dr. Shulamit Katzman, who was a devoted
supporter of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.
2014:
A youth center in Jönköping in southern Sweden is vandalized with anti-Semitic
slurs, including “Jewish pigs,” “you’ll burn in hell,” and swastikas.
2014:
“Billionaire diamond magnate Lev Leviev” one of the “most successful Bukharian
Jews” and “Israeli philanthropist” was photographed today “writing in a Torah
scroll wit Rabbi Eliyahu Yaakov and defense minister Moshe Yaalon.”
2014:
Israeli violinist Vadim Gluzman is scheduled to perform his only New York
recital at 8 p.m.
2014:
The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host “Jewish Poetry Now:
Celebrating the Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry”
2014:
In New Orleans, the Jewish Children’s Regional Service (one of America’s
premiere provider of social services for the Jewish community) is scheduled to
hold its Annual Meeting this morning at the Uptown Jewish Community Center.
2014:
In Springfield, VA, Congregation Adat
Reyim is scheduled to host Robert H. Gillette, author of The Virginia Plan that
described the plan of department store own William B. Thalhiemer’s plan to rescue the students of Gross Breesen
Institute and create “a safe haven on Burkeville, VA farm.
2014:
“The Jewish Cardinal” with “Moses on the Mesa” are scheduled to be shown at the
Northern Virginia Jewish Film Festival.
2014:
“The Zigzag Kid” is scheduled to be the last picture shown at this year’s
Houston Jewish Film Festival.
2014:
The Tulane University Jewish Studies Department under the Chair of Professor
Brian Horowitz is scheduled to host a lecture “Tortosa” presented by David
Goldstein
2014:
“The mystery of where Islamist hackers got phone numbers and email addresses to
send threatening text and email messages grew today, when it emerged that a
database belonging to the Israel Defense magazine and web site had been hacked
over the weekend.” (As reported by David Shamah)
2014:
“The Foreign Ministry’s Workers Union today declared a full-blown general
strike, shutting down the ministry’s headquarters in Jerusalem and all Israeli
embassies and consulates across the world.´(As reported by Raphael Ahren)
2014:
“Art Spiegelman’s Co-Mix: A Retrospective,” is scheduled to come to a close at
The Jewish Museum in New York City
2015:
“Touchdown Israel – Tackle Football in the Holyland” is scheduled to be sown at
the Northern Virginia Jewish Film Festival
2015:
Dr. Tom Barton is scheduled to deliver a lecture on the Battle Over Jews in
Medieval Spain” in Carlsbad, CA.
2016:
The Jews in the American South is scheduled to stop in Beaufort, South
Carolina, for a visit to Beth Israel Congregation – formerly Orthodox, now
“all-inclusive” – to talk with community members about maintaining religious
traditions and Jewish identity in a small town.
2016:
The American Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to present “France, Jewish
Identity and the Holocaust: Yellow Stars of Tolerance and Cojot.”
2016:
YIVO is scheduled to present “Mixed-Sex Dancing in Yiddish Culture.”
2016:
Hadassah Humanitarian Mission to Cuba is scheduled to begin today.
2016:
“Next Stop” a “play that follows two Israelis humorously navigating the
confusion of dating life in New York City” is scheduled to open at the Broadway
Comedy Club.
2016(13th
of Adar II, 5776): Fast of Esther; in the evening read the Megillah – for more
see
2017:
The ten-day Israel Culinary Trip to Israel sponsored by the Streicker Center is
scheduled to begin today.
2017:
“A months long wave of bomb threats against Jewish institutions in the United
States that prompted evacuations, heightened security and fears of rising
anti-Semitism gave way to an unexpected twist” today when a Jewish 18 year old
who holds dual Israeli and American citizenship who reported has a brain tumor
was arrested and “His father was ordered held for eight days on suspicion that
he might have been aware of the threats…”
2017:
Today “The Republican-led Senate confirmed President Donald Trump’s pick to be
U.S. ambassador to Israel, ignoring objections from Democrats that David
Friedman lacked the temperament for such an important diplomatic post.”
2017:
The American Society for Jewish Music is scheduled to present “Your New House:
Wedding Songs, Gender and Memory in an Indian Jewish Community.”
2017:
The Leo Baeck Institute is scheduled to host George Prochnik speaking on
“Stranger in a Strange Land – Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem.
2018(7th
of Nisan, 5778): Eighty-six-year-old Lawrence K. Grossman, the former President
of PB and head of NBC news passed away today. (As reported by Richard Sandomir)
2018:
Daylight saving time begins at 2:00 A.M in Israel
2018:
A Hebrew language performance of the Israeli play “Scoop” is scheduled to take
place this evening at the Roy Arias Theatre in New York City.
2018:
Liquidation sales of “Toys R Us; the chain founded by Charles Lazarus began
today.
2018:
This morning, the New Jersey Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a
screening of “Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story.”
2018: BowTie theatres in Hartford and New
Haven, CT. are scheduled to host screenings of “Itzhak,” a film about the life
of violinist Itzhak Perlman.
2019(16th
of Adar II, 5779): Parashat Tzav;
2019(16th
of Adar II, 5779): Eighty-two-year-old Larry Cohen, the Manhattan born son
realtor Irving Cohen and Carolyn Cohen, the prolific movie and television
director, producer and screenwriter (as reported by Neil Genzlinger) passed
away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/26/obituaries/larry-cohen-dead.html
2019:
The Boca Raton Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host the “East Coast US
premiere” of “The Bird Catcher” which tells the tale of Jews fleeing the Nazis
in Norway.
2019:
In Jerusalem, the Bible Lands Museum is scheduled to host the last day of its
special gallery displays designed to celebrate Purim.
2019:
The Bloomfield Science Museum is scheduled to host the final day of “Mirror
Image – A Purim of Mirrors and Reflections.
2019:
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is schedule to host “Running
Breathless: An Untold Story of WWII and the Holocaust.
https://www.ushmm.org/online-calendar/event/MAMTAKOGUL0319
2020:
Tikvah is scheduled to host Webcast with Caroline Glick on “The New Arab Bloc
and the Future of Israeli Sovereignty.”
2020:
The London School of Jewish Studies is scheduled to host an on-line version of
“Explaining Exodus: Building a House of God – with Rabbi Joseph Dweck.”
2020):
27th of Adar, 5780): Eighty-eighty-year-old Yale trained attorney
and “legal crusader” Stanley Sporkin, the Philadelphia born of the former Ethel
Weiner and Court of Common Pleas Judges Maurice Sporkin and the husband of Judy
Imber with whom he had three children “who, as the chief enforcement officer at
the Securities and Exchange Commission, held American corporations accountable
for making illicit campaign contributions in the United States and for bribing
public officials abroad,” passed away today in Rockville, MD (As reported by
Sam Roberts)
2020:
The 2nd Jewish Africa Conference and Morocco Trip which was
scheduled to begin today has been canceled due to the Pandemic.
2020:
“#inthistogether: Jewish Unity in History With Natan Sharansky” is scheduled to
be presented on-line today at noon, eastern time.
https://www.jewishboston.com/events/inthistogether-jewish-unity-in-history-with-natan-sharansky/
2021:
Temple Israel of Boston is scheduled to present online “Leaving Egypt: Passover
Prep.”
2021:
The Boston-Area Jewish Education Program is scheduled to present online, the
“Great BJEP Matazah Bake” during which attendees will “learn the history of
this 18-minute bake as they return to their roots like the Israelites in Egypt,
now with running water and electricity, to say the very least.”
2021:
The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to host “One Night At A Time”
during which
Arianna
Huffington and Marina Khidekel will discuss the insights gained while writing Your
Time to Thrive.
2021:
The Jewish Community Center of the North Shore is scheduled to present online
“Nafshi Yeshovev: What Lifts My Spirit – An Exploration of Text, Poetry, Music
and More” with Rabbi Michael Ragozin.
2021:
Paul George Feinman, the Columbia grad and University of Minnesota trained
attorney compled his service as an Associate Judge of the New York Court of
Appeals.
2021:
As Israelis go to the polls for the fourth time in two years, Prime Minister
Netanyahu will see if he can “remain in power while on trial on corruption
charges.”
2022:
“Today we express
Iowa’s enduring support for the State of Israel and our categorical rejection
of anti-Semitism,” Reynolds said in a statement as she signed a bill that “builds
on an existing section of the state code that prohibited it from investing in
“companies that boycott Israel,” by expanding the definition of a “company” to
include subsidiaries and parent companies.”
2022:
UK Jewish Film is scheduled to host a screening of “Cinema Sabaya,” the winner
of Best Israeli First Feature at The Jerusalem Film Festival in 2021
2022:
Governor Reynolds of Iowa signed a bill that “calls for the state to adopt the
International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism in
discrimination and anti-bias training.”
2023:
Prime Minister Netanyahu is scheduled to begin his visit to the United Kingdom.
2023:
YIVO is scheduled to host “an evening of Yiddish music celebrating the memory
of Musicologist, song collector, and writer Chana Mlotek, the longtime YIVO
Music Archivist, who played a key role in crafting the historical memory of
Yiddish songs in our time.”
2023:
Rabbi Uri Pilichowski, the Zionist Education Initiative Senior Educator, Nefesh
B’Nefesh, is scheduled to deliver the final lecture on “Zionism Today.”
2023:
In Cedar Rapids, IA, Temple Judah is scheduled to hold its monthly Board
Meeting.
2023:
The Jewish Museum in London is scheduled to host its Virtual Teachers CPD that
explores what it really means to be Jewish and how best to teach an authentic
and inclusive Judaism in your classrooms.
2023:
In Coralville, IA, Congregation Agudas Achim is scheduled to host a seniors
get-together including a presentation from Alan Weinstein.
2023:
JWA Booktalk is scheduled to host Loolwa Khazzoom, editor of The Flying
Camel, a book of essays on identity by women of North African and Middle
Eastern Jewish heritage, recently reissued celebrating the book’s 20th
anniversary.
2023:
The Belzberg Program in Israel Studies at the University of Calgary and the
Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University in collaboration with
the American Sefardi Federation, Centro Sefarad Israel, and the International
Network for Jewish Thought present “How Do Judeo-Spanish Proverbs and Tales
Communicate with Us and How Do We Communicate With Them?”
2023:
At 2 a.m. tomorrow morning Israelis are scheduled to move their clocks forward
by one hour.
2023(1st
of Nisan, 5783): Rosh Chodesh Nisan
2024:
Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture by David Herman on “Jewish
Writers and the Holocaust: ’60s and ’70s.”
2024:
Temple Emanu-El scheduled is to host a “Mardi Gras Masquerade Purim Party where
the celebrations of Shushan meet the revelry of the French Quarter!”
2024:
Temple Judea, is scheduled to “celebrate Havdalah with Rabbi David Azoulay –
from Congregation Yozma in Modi’in Israel.”
2024:
In Columbus, OH, Jacob Levin, the world’s greatest grandson and a real mensch,
is scheduled to daven Kriyat Hatorah at Tifereth Israel.
2024:
The LGBTQIA+ group is scheduled to host a queer Purim party on Saturday, at
9:30 p.m. (after the Megillah reading) at Studio 13 in Iowa City
2024:
The Eden Tamir Center is scheduled a Toscanini Quartet, Ensemble in Residence
and Friends
2024(13th
of Adar II, 5784): Shabbat Zachor; For more see https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
2024(13th
of Adar II, 5784) In the evening read the Megillah
For
more see https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
2024:
In Cedar Rapids, Temple Judah is scheduled to host an in-person only Purim
Service and Megillah Reading for which “costumes are encouraged.”
2024: As March
23rd begins in Israel, the Hamas held hostages begin
day 169 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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