This Day, March 30, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
March
30
1135: On the
secular calendar, birthdate of Maimonides (Moses Ben Maimon) in Cordova, Spain.
According to Jewish tradition he was born Erev Pesach. “From Moses to
Moses there was none like Moses.’ This folk saying sums up the greatness of the
man. There is not space enough to do justice to his amazing life. Such were his
intellectual capabilities that one person said, if you did not know that
Maimonides was the name of the man you would think that it was the name of a
university. He is most noted for his codification of Jewish Law called the
Mishneh Torah (Review of the Torah) and his philosophic work Moreh Nevuchim
(Guide To The Perplexed). But for some the true measure of the man is the
lesser known Letter of Consolation and Letter on the Sanctification of God. He
wrote both of these to reassure the Jews of Fez that to encourage them in their
steadfastness to Judaism and to emphasize the fact that God hears our prayers
and that our sins do not detract from our good deeds. He wrote a great deal
more including medical books. Maimonides refused to “make a profit from
the crown of the Torah” so while he served as the leader of the Jewish
community in Egypt; he earned a living as a leading physician. Maimonides died
in Egypt in December, 1204 or Tevet, 4965. He is buried in Tiberias and many
make a point of visiting the grave of this sage. If you do the math this is the
870th anniversary of the birth of Maimonides. This would make this an
especially auspicious year for Jews to devote study time to this sage who has
influenced non-Jews as well as Jews eight centuries.
http://www.amazon.com/Maimonides-Biography-Abraham-Joshua-Heschel/dp/0374517592
http://huc.edu/faculty/faculty/marmur/Heschel’s%20Two%20Maimonides.pdf
1191: King
Philip II of France set sail from Sicily to begin his campaign against Saladin
in what is called the Third Crusade. Throughout his reign, Philip persecuted
his Jewish subjects by variously holding them hostage for ransom, releasing
Christians from paying their debts to the Jews and expelling them so he could
seize all of their property and assets.
1218: Henry
III of England enforced the Yellow Badge Edict. The badge was a piece of yellow
cloth in the shape of the Tablets of the Law and was worn above the heart by
every Jew over the age of seven.
1296: Edward I
sacks Berwick-upon-Tweed, during armed conflict between Scotland and England.
This is the same King who expelled the Jews from England in 1290. He expelled
them so that he could finance his various wars against the French, the Welch
and the Scots
1432:
Birthdate of Mehmed II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. Mehmed’s reign was a
positive period for the Jews. After he conquered Constantinople in 1453, he
allowed Jews from today’s Greek Islands and Crete to settle in Istanbul. His
declaration of invitation said, in part, “Listen sons of the Hebrew who
live in my country…May all of you who desire come to Constantinople and may
the rest of your people find here a shelter”. After fighting off a crusade
led by Jean de Capistrano, Mehmed invited the Ashkenazi Jews of Transylvania
and Slovakia to the Ottoman Empire. The invitation may have been as a sign of
appreciation for fighting prowess of a Jewish regiment called “the Sons of
Moses.” Mehmed ordered that various synagogues that had been damaged by fire
should be repaired and several Jews held positions at Court.
1492: King Ferdinand
and Queen Isabella signed a decree expelling the Jews from Spain.
1526: In
Antwerp, Belgium, Emperor Charles V issued a general safe-conduct to the
Portuguese “New Christians” and Marranos allowing them to live and
work there. Although they still had to live under cover they were safe from the
Inquisition.
1581: Pope
Gregory XIII issued a Bull banning the use of Jewish doctors. This did not
prevent many popes from using Jews as their personal physicians.
1690:
Alexander VIII issued “Animarum Saluti,” a papal relating to the neophytes in
the Indies.
1739(20th of
Adar II): Rabbi Moses Meir Perles of Prague, author of Megillat Sofer passed
away.
1766(20th
of Nisan 5526): Sixth Day of Pesach
1767: Silesian
born architect Johann Christoph Glaubitz who “reconstructed the Great Synagogue
of Vilna” passed away today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Synagogue_of_Vilna#/media/File:Great_synagogue_of_vilna.jpg
https://www.ynetnews.com/travel/article/byvxbshbt
1741: In
Charleston, SC, the “Right Worthy and Amicable Order of Ubiquarians” whose
members included Moses Solomon was established today.
1771(15th
of Nisan, 5531): Pesach and Shabbat
1771: In New
York City, Abraham Isaac Abraham and his wife gave birth to “Feglah” Abrahams
who died in infancy.
1773: In
Newport, Ezra Stiles, the future President of Yale invited Hebron born Rabbi
Chaim Isaac Caregal and Aaron Lopez to his home for a meeting that would be the
beginning of strong friendship that lasted for the next 6 months when the Rabbi
left town to continue his travels.
1774(18th
of Nisan, 5534): Fourth Day of Pesach
1774: In
Eppingen, Germany, Kursche Karoline Maier and Laemmle (Asher) Heinsheimer gave
birth toe Maier Heinsheimer, the husbad of Bela Furth with whom he had ten
children.
1794: In
London, Julie Asher and Joseph Raphael HaCohen gave birth to Lewis Raphael, the
husband of Rachel Mocatta and the father of Jeanette, Edward, Henry, Emily and
George Raphael.
1790(15th
of Nisan, 5550): Pesach
1799(23rd
of Adar II, 5559): Parashat Shimini; Shabbat Parah observed for the last time
in the 18th century.
1801(16th of
Nisan, 5561): Second day of Pesach; The Omer is counted for the first time
during the Presidency of Thomas Jefferson.
1804(18th
of Nisan, 5564): Fourth Day of Pesach
1804:
Birthdate of Salomon Sulzer the Austrian Chazan and composer whose “Shir
Tziyyon” a work in two volumes that “established models for the various
sections of the musical service—the recitative of the cantor, the choral of the
choir, and the responses of the congregation—and contained music for Sabbaths,
festivals, weddings, and funerals which has been introduced into nearly all the
synagogues of the world.”
1804:
Birthdate of Austrian Chazan and composer Salomon Sulzer who so successful “as
an interpreter of Schubert” that he was made “a knight of the Order of Francis
Joseph I and a maestro of the Reale Accademia di St. Cecilia in Rome.”
1809: In
London, Rachel and Moses Zechariah Foligno gave birth to their youngest
daughter, Rose Foligno.
1812(17th
of Nisan, 5572): Third Day of Pesach; Second Day of the Omer
1812: On
Gibraltar, Rabbi Samuel Conquy and Rica Conquy gave birth to Solomon Conquy.
1815: In
Basel, Isaac Dreyfus, the Alsace born son of Jacob Drefyus and his wife
Gertrude “Julie” Dreyfus gave bith to Nanette Dreyfus.
1816(1st
of Nisan, 5576): Parashat Vayikra; Rosh Chodesh Nisan
1816: In
Moravia, Jacob Steinschneider and his wife gave birth to Moritz Steinschneider
“a Bohemian bibliographer and Orientalist who passed away in 1907.
1819: In
German Beier Grunebuam and David Jacob Felsenthal gave birth to Hermann
Felsenthal. (not to be confused with the German born American banker of the
same name who settled in Chicago)
1820(15th
of Nisan, 5580): As Americans enjoy
political season of “good feelings” Jews observe Pesach
1827: Rachel
Gomez and John Meseena gave birth to Rebecca Meseen the wife of Prussian native
William Flatau and the other of Ruben Flatau.
1829:
Birthdate of German native Sigmund Leibman Leopold, the husband of London born
Emma Leopold and the father of Isaac, Theresa, Bertha, Lewis and Florence
Leopold each of whom was born on the Jersey Channel Islands.
1831(16th
of Nisan, 5591): In Mayence, Rabbi Samuel Bondi and Sophie Sueschen Bondi gave
birth to Marcus Meir Bondi.
1833(10th
of Nisan, 5563): Parashat Tzav; Shabbat Hagadol
1833: On the
same day the Jews observed the last Shabbat before Pesach, today’s issue of The
Lancet published the “Lectures on Medical Pathology” which had been delivered
at the University of Paris.
1839(15th
of Nisan, 5599): Pesach and Shabbat
1840: Jonas
Ellis married Sarah Jacobs at the New Synagogue today.
1842(19th
of Nisan, 5602): Fifth Day of Pesach observed on the same day American physician and pharmacist Crawford
Long administers an inhaled anesthetic (diethyl ether) to facilitate a surgical
procedure (removal of a neck tumor)
1844(10th
of Nisan, 5604): Parashat Tzav; Shabbat HaGadol
1844: As the
Jews observed the last Shabbat before Pesach, today, during the Dominican War
of Independence, at the Battle of Santiago, “Dominican troops, that were part
of the Army of The North and led by General José María Imbert, defeated Haitian
Army troops led by General Jean-Louis Pierrot”
1849: In New
York, Isidor Bush published the first edition of Israel’s Herald, “the first Jewish weekly in the United States”
that folded after only 3 months.
1849: Today’s
Issue of Israel’s Herald provided a
contemporaneous account of the settling of St. Louis when it reported that “ten
or twelve Jews have established themselves in a distant place in the West”
where worrying “about providing for their daily bread” and “unavoidable
difficulties…prevent them from adhering strictly to religious practices.”
1851: Thirty-year-old
Prussian born cigar dealer Samuel Gluckstein the son of Lehman Meyer Gluckstein
and Helena Horn who had come to Britain ten years ago was now living at 9, Freeman Street, Tower Hamlets, London
1853: Simon
ben Moses married Elkla bat Joseph at the Great Synagogue today.
1853:
Birthdate of Cincinnati, OH native Gustavus Henry Wald the Dean of the
University of Cincinnati Law School.
1853: Samuel
Cohen married Rosetta Menser at the New Synagogue today.
1856: In
Hoboken, NJ, Henry and Sophie Waldstein gave birth to Charles Waldstein, the
native of New York who became a leading Anglo-American archaeologist who was
knighted in 1912 and changed his name to Walston in 1918 so he became known as
Sir Charles Walston, husband of Florence Seligman.
https://www.jta.org/1927/03/25/archive/sir-charles-walston-noted-anglo-jewish-scholar-dies-at-71
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Appletons%27_Cyclopædia_of_American_Biography/Waldstein,_Charles
1856: The
Treaty of Paris was signed, ending the Crimean War. One of the stranger aspects
of the conflict that most remember for “The Charge of the Light Brigade” was
the creation of Mickiewicz’s Jewish Legion. A Polish nobleman and nationalist
who was living in exile in Paris at the start of the war, Mickiewicz went to
Constantinople where he and Armand Levy organized a military unit made up of
Jews from Poland and Palestine. The group was also called the Hussars of
Israel. Mickiewicz died before he could lead them into action.
1856: The
attempts of the Turkish sultan, Abed Almagid, to ally his kingdom with the west
came to fruition today when the Ottoman Empire “was officially included among
the European family nations’ today during the Congress of Paris. Abed Almagid had showed his support for the
cause of the Jews when he issued a decree in 1840 absolving the Jews of Rhodes
from the charges of having killed a Christian child so his blood could be used
in making matzah.
1858: Printer
Hyman Lipman, a Philadelphia Jew who played a key role in the early development
of the postal card patented the lead pencil.
1861(19th
of Nisan, 5621): Fifth Day of Pesach and Shabbat observed as the Confederate
besiege Fort Sumter
1862: In
Brooklyn, Congregation Beth Elohim dedicated its new facility on Pearl Street
which gave rise to its nickname “the Pearl Street Synagogue.”
1863: During
the Civil War, President Lincoln issued a proclamation proclaiming Thursday,
April 30, 1863 as a National Day of Fasting.
1864(22nd
of Adar II, 5624): Seventy-six-year-old Moses Asher Goldsmid, the husband of
Eliza Salomons, the second daughter of Levy Salomons with whom he had two
children, Annie and Julie and after she died married Sarah Montefiore, the
sister of Sir Moses Montefiore and daughter of Joseph Montefiore, passed away
today.
1864:
Birthdate of German- born sociologist Franz Oppenheimer, the father of Hillel
Oppenheimer, a professor of botany at Hebrew University. After a distinguished
career in Germany, Oppenheimer passed away as a refugee in Los Angeles in 1943.
1865: In
Antrim, Northern Island, Caroline Spiers and Hermann Boas gave birth to Dora
Rosetta Boas.
1866(14th
of Nisan, 5626): Ta’ant Berachot; Erev Pesach
1867: In what
was then Lötzen, East Prussia and is now Giżycko, Poland, Mortiz Davidson and
his wife gave birth to movie producer Paul Davidson.
1868: In
Salford, Greater Manchester, Edward Micholls Henriques, the Bloomsbury born son
of Rebecca and David Quixano Henriques gave birth to Reginald Quixano
Henriques, the husband of Annie Henriques.
1869(18th
of Nisan,5629): Fourth Day of Pesach at time when 12 when twelve states had
voted to ratify the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constittion
1873(2nd
of Nisan. 5633): Eighty-eight-year-old Count Abraham Camondo passed away. Born
in Istanbul, he “was a Jewish Ottoman-Italian financier and philanthropist and
the patriarch of the Camondo family.”
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/3949-camondo
1875: In
Frankfurt, Germany, Stella Rothschild, the German born daughter of Leopold
Schott and Sara Randegger and her husband Wilhelm Benjamin Rothschild gave
birth to David Rothschild.
1877(16th of
Nisan, 5637): Second Day of Pesach; 1st day of the Omer
1877: In
Towanda, PA, “Simon and Rachel (Hyman) Gomez, Frumberg gave birth to birth NYU
trained lawyer Abram Morgan Furmberg, the husband of Lillian Nebenzahl, and
member of the Missouri Bar Association who was a member of B’nai B’rith,
Y.M.H.A and Temple of Israel
1879:
“Egyptian Influence on Hebrew Names” published today described the work of Dr.
Brugsh that there is no Hebrew derivation for the names Moses, Aaron or Miriam
but they do contain Egyptian roots. Also, the name Pinchas (the famed slayer in
the Book of Numbers) comes from an Egyptian term for “the Negro” which was
applied to dark-skinned men in Egypt.
1879: In
London, Rabbis Green and Adler consecrated the New West Synagogue, an offshoot
of the Bayswater Synagogue.
1880(18th
of Nisan, 5640): Fourth Day of Pesach
1880: It was
reported today that a new opera, “The Queen of Sheba” by Goldmark has been
successfully performed in several German cities.
1881: In
Leadville, CO, the liquor business owned by the Schloss family was determined
to have sustained $250 in damages in a fire that began last night.
1882:
Birthdate of Austrian-born English psychoanalyst and child psychologist Melanie
Klein. Klein developed methods of play technique and play therapy in analyzing
and treating child patients. She passed away in 1960.
1883:
Birthdate of Jo Davidson, the Lower East Side son of Russian Jewish immigrants
who went on to become one of the most famous sculptors of his time passed away
today in Tours, France.
https://www.fdrfourfreedomspark.org/jo-davidson
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jo-davidson
1883: Two days
after he had passed away, 63-year-old Nathan Mayer Montefiore, the son of
Abraham Joseph Montefiore and Henrietta Rothschild, the husband of the former
Emma Goldsmid and the father of Alice, Leonard, Charlotte and Claude Montifiore
was buried today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery in what must have been
a gathering of some of England’s most prominent Jews since it involved the
Montefiores, Rothschilds and Goldsmids.
1883: Temple
Emanu-El-Beth Sholom, Westmount, a Reform synagogue in Westmount, Quebec, the
oldest “Liberal” or “Reform” synagogue in Canada, was incorporated today.
1884: In
Kozlov, Czech Republic, Adolf Neubauer, the son of Karl and Theresia Neubauer,
and his wife Karla gave birth to Ida Neubauer who became Ida Simon when she
married Carl Simon.
1888(18th
of Nisan, 5684): Fourth Day of Pesach
1888: In
Trock, Poland, “Hyman Ely and Sarah (Rodberg) Cohen gave birth to the husband
of Mildred Ruth Park and MIT trained engineer Samson Kalmon Cohen who was
commended by Col. George Goethals for his work in building the Panama Canal,
served with the Engineers in WW I and was an active member of Temple Israeli in
Boston.
1888(18th
of Nisan, 5648): Forty-one-year-old “German Jewish physician and Arctic
explorer” Dr. Emil Bessels suffered a stroke today and passed away in
Stuttgart, Germany.
1890: Ida Levy
of New York will marry Henry Naftal of Asbury Park today.
1890:
Authorities concluded that Morris Eising, German-Jewish immigrant who had been
found dead in his rooming house had died by his own hand. Apparently, he was despondent over the loss
of his job which meant he could not send money back to his wife in Bavaria.
1890: This
morning Rabbi Gustav Gottheil is scheduled to officiate at the funeral Emanuel
Bernheimer, “one of the owners of the Lion Brewery” and one of the oldest
brewers living in New York. Born in
1817, he learned his craft in his native Germany before coming to the United
States in 1844. In 1850 he and August
Schmid formed the Constanz Brewery and in 1860 they took over and enlarged the
Lion Brewery. Bernheimer was one of the
oldest member of Temple Emanu El and a patron of several charities including
Mount Sinai Hospital, the Hebrew Orphan Asylum and the Montefiore Home for
Chronic Invalids. After the funeral, Dr. Silverman will officiate at the burial
in the Salem Field Cemetery.
1890: “The
Theatrical Week” published today provides highlights of current and upcoming
productions including “The Shatchen,” a new play by Charles Dickson and Harry
Dobbin whose protagonist is Myer Petooksy
a peddler who also works as “an unlicensed marriage broker.”
1891: “New
Books” published today contains a complete review of The Persecution of the
Jews in Russia that includes an “appendix containing a summary of special
restrice laws, a map showing the pale of Jewish settlements.”
1892: It was
reported today that Prague after police quelled a riot by a mob upset by the
Imperial authority’s refusal to allow a celebration of the anniversary birth of
a medieval educational reformer, John Comenius.
When the rioters were thwarted by authorities, they cried “Let’s make
for the Jews!” followed by calls to head for the Jewish quarter where they
could “vent their fury on the inoffensive Hebrews.” The mounted policemen
wanted an end to the rioters and drove them from the streets including those in
the Jewish quarter. (Yes, this mindless anti-Semitic attack took place in the
supposedly civilized confines Prague.
The anti-Semitic outburst that consumed Paris during the Dreyfus affair
was really not such an aberration after all.)
1892: A cable
was received today in Toronto from London describing the death of sixty nine
year old Canadian Jew Mark Samuel
1892: In
Hanover Arnord and Caecilie (Solling) Panofsky gave brirth to Erwin Panofsky,
the husband of Dorothea (Dora) Mosse, the German art historian who was forced
to pursue his career in the United States after the rise of the Nazis
https://www.monumentsmenfoundation.org/panofsky-erwin-1
.https://dictionaryofarthistorians.org/panofskye.htm
1894:
Birthdate of Samson Raphaelson the New York born graduate of the University of
Illinois whose extensive writing career included creating a short story based
on an episode in the life of Al Jolson which he then he expanded into the Jazz
Singer, a successful Broadway play and the first “talkie.”
1895:
Birthdate of Pierre Péteul, who as the Capuchin Franciscan friar Père
Marie-Benoît saved approximately 4,000 Jews from the Shoah. He was was honored with the Medal of the
Righteous among the Nations and was known as Père des juifs (Father of
the Jews.
1896(16th of
Nisan, 5656): Second Day of Pesach; First Day of the Omer
1896: Benjamin
Kossman completed more than five years of service with the U.S. 6th
Cavalry.
1896(16th of
Nisan, 5656): Citizens are required to return their census papers in London.
While most citizens are required to return their census papers today in London,
the Jews have been given an extension and do not have to return them until
tomorrow since today is the second day of Passover and the English respect the
need to observe the holiday.
1896(16th of
Nisan, 5656): Fifty-one-year-old Rabbi Aaron Wise who had gone to Rodelph
Sholom to officiate at Passover Services this morning, complained of being ill
and went home after consulting with Benjamin Blumenthal without preaching lay
down on a longue in the basement dining room as passed away before medical help
could arrive.
Born in Hungary in 1844, Wise was educated in
the Talmudic schools of Hungary, including the seminary at Eisenstadt, where he
studied under Dr. Hildesheimer. Later he attended the universities of Leipzig
and Halle, receiving his doctorate at the latter institution. He assisted
Bernard Fischer in revising the Buxtorf lexicon and was for several years a
director of schools in his native town. He was for a time identified with the
Haredi party in Hungary, acting as secretary to the organization Shomere
ha-Datt, and editing a Judaeo-German weekly in its support. In 1874 Wise
emigrated to the United States, and became rabbi of Congregation Baith Israel
in Brooklyn; two years later he was appointed rabbi of Temple Rodeph Shalom in
New York, which office he held until his death. Wise was the author of Beth
Aharon, a religious school handbook; and he compiled a prayer-book for the use
of his congregation. He was for some time editor of the Jewish Herald of New
York, and of the Boston Hebrew Observer; and he contributed to the yearbooks of
the Jewish Ministers’ Association of America, as well as to other periodical
publications. He was one of the founders of the Jewish Theological Seminary,
and the first vice-president of its advisory board of ministers. Wise founded
the Rodeph Shalom Sisterhood of Personal Service, which established the Aaron
Wise Industrial School in his memory. He was the son of Chief Rabbi Joseph
Hirsch Weiss, and father of Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise.
1897: Colonel
Goldsmid asks Herzl to stay away from the Zionist Congress in order to prevent
a split in the ranks of the Hovevei Zion.
1897: Dr.
Adler, Chief Rabbi of Great Britain, and Moritz Güdemann, Chief Rabbi of
Vienna, led anti-Zionist attacks. They were known as the
“Protestrabbiner” – “Protest Rabbis”.
1897: “In
Memory of General Grant” published today described the units that will be
marching in the parade to honor the late President and Civil War hero including
a contingent from the Hebrew Orphan Asylum Cadets under the command of Major
Martin Cohen and Adjutant Max Saltzman.
1897: In New
York City’s Lower East Side, Bessie and Jakob Riskin gave birth to
“screenwriter and playwright Robert Riskin who won an Oscar for the timeless
comedy “It Happened on Night” as well as “Mr. Deeds Goes to Town” – an example
of the American cultural myth actually created by Jewish immigrants and their
children in Tinsel Town.
1898: Liebe
Blond and her four children who had arrived in the United States were put on a
ship bound for Europe after authorities refused to let her husband who has been
working here see her or listen to his entreaties to let them stay in the United
States.
1899(19th
of Nisan,5659): Fifth Day of Pesach
1899(19th of
Nisan, 5659): Rabbi Hayyim Leib Tiktinski, head of the Mir Yeshivah for 49
years passed away
1899: It was
reported today that when Baron Hirsch passed away he left a fortune estimated
at 125 million dollars, most of which was tied to railroad companies. Both before and after his death, Hirsch had
given large sums to the poor including 10 million dollars for the Jewish
Colonization Association of the United States.
1899: It was
reported today that since the death of her husband, Baroness Hirsch has been
very generous in providing aid to the poor including $1,500,000 to the need of
Paris and an even large amount to the Educational Alliance which assists the
Russian Jews.
1899:
Birthdate of movie producer Irving Thalberg, an early pioneer in the film
industry. His brief career (he died of pneumonia at the age of 37) left such a
mark on the world of cinema that a year after his death the Academy of Motion
Picture Artists created a special award in his name that is given annually at
the Oscar Presentations. Thalberg was the inspirations for F. Scott
Fitzgerald’s novel, The Last Tycoon. In explaining why his name did not appear
in the film credits, Thalberg said, “if you’re in a position to give yourself
credit, you don’t need it.”
1900: In
Princeton, NY, “Classics professor Charles A. Robinson” and his wife gave birth
to
Charles A.
Robinson, Jr. the Professor of Classic at Brown University who married Celia
Sachs, the daughter of art historian Paul J. Sachs who played a key role in
planning to save and retrieve works of art in World War II.
1901(10th
of Nisan, 5661): Parashat Tzav; Shabbat HaGadol
1901:
Birthdate of Sydney David Piece the member of the Canadian track and field team
at the 1924 Paris Olympics and McGill University graduate who served as
“Canada’s ambassador to Brazil, Belgium and Luxembourg.”
1902: Joseph
Goldner, the Galician born son of Leah Goldner and the brother of Benjamin
Goldner with whom he formed the wholesale grocery concern of Goldner Brothers
in New York where he was a member of the Independent Order of B’rith Abraham
married Ida Weise today after which he had three children – Albert, David and
Jacob.
1902: In
expressing his opposition to attempts make the public system school denominational
Alexander Harvey, whose letter was published today, wrote that “When in their
earliest and most impressionable years Protestants, Catholics and Jews go to
the same schools, learn the same lessons, play the same games and are forced in
the rough and ready democracy of boy life to take each at his true worth, it is
impossible later to make the disciples of one creed persecute those of another”
which means that “America is free” “from
the evils of religious persecution. (Editor’s note – his words are as true
today as they were then)
1903:
Birthdate of Sol C Siegel, journalist turned movie producer who helped to
create such hits as “High Society,” “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,” “No Way to
Treat a Lady,” “Alvarez Kelly” “Three Coins In A Fountain” and “A Letter to
Three Wives” the last two which were nominated for Oscar’s as Best Picture.
1903: As part
of negotiations to secure land for a Jewish homeland, Carton de Wiart talked to
a lawyer with the Egyptian government who recommends that the concession should
be in the form of a lease, not a freehold. Herzl demands a 99-year lease.
1904(14th
of Nisan, 5664): Ta’anit Bechorot; erev Pesach
1904: It was
reported today that the children of the late Mayer Lehman, who was a Director
of Mount Sinai Hospital for 19 years, have given $93,000 to cover the cost of
constructing the Dispensary Building which is to be dedicated in memory of
their father.
1904(14th of
Nisan, 5664): At Ellis Island, three hundred Jewish immigrants who “have been
detained while awaiting inspection” held a Seder on the first night of
Passover. The meal was served on dishes that were brand new having been brought
straight from the storeroom. All of the utensils used in the kitchen were also
brand new and the meal was prepared under the supervision of the Jewish
immigrants. The meal included chicken soup, roast goose, apple sauce, mashed
potatoes, black tea, oranges and, of course, Matzah and ground horseradish.
1904: Alice
Weinberg, the twelve-year-old daughter of Max Weinberg was reported missing by
her father. The girl had gone to play with her friends this morning while her
family prepared for tonight’s Seder. The family called off its Passover
celebration so it could search for Alice.
1905:
Birthdate of St. Louis’ native and Princeton graduate Phillip W. Habertnan, the
Columbia trained lawyer and member of the legislative investigation team led by
Judge Samuel Seabury that ended the career of Mayor Walker who was a
Republican, a partner in the firm of Proskauer, Rose, Goetz & Mendelsohn and
the husband of Helen Habertnan with whom he had two children – Charles and
Norma.
1906:
Birthdate of Belarus native Morris Adler, the husband of Goldie Adler, and the
leading Detroit Rabbi who was mortally wounded by a congregant during Shabbat
services
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/my-grandfathers-assassin-and-me/
1907(15th
of Nisan, 5667): Pesach and Shabbat
1907: As of
today, in Washington, Secretary of State Root had received a number of appeals
from Jewish organizations” in the United States” for the exercise of the good
offices of this Government for the protection of the Jews in Romania who are
suffering from the excesses of the rebellious peasantry in that country.”
1908:
Lightweight Leach Cross (Louis Charles Wallach) fought is third bout in the
month of March and his 29th career bout today.
1909(8th of
Nisan, 5669): Mrs. Michla Shilotzdky passed away this morning at the age of
106. The cause of death was pneumonia. Mrs. Esther Davis, 115 years old; Mrs.
Rosei Aaronwald, 108 years old; and Mendel Diamond, 107 years old were at her
bedside at the Daughters of Jacob Home in New York.
1909: Official
opening of the Queensboro Bridge which two Jewish boys from Queens named Simon
and Garfunkel would immortalize in the 1960’s hit “The 59th Street Bridge
Song (Feelin’ Groovy)”
1909: A
special report to The London Times from Teheran says that anti-Jewish riot
occurred at Kermanshah” and “that the rioters sacked 170 houses.”
1910: The
Mississippi Legislature founds The University of Southern Mississippi at
Hattiesburg, Mississippi. At the time of the founding of USM, there was a small
Jewish population in Hattiesburg including Maurice Dreyfus who operated a
sawmill and Frank Rubenstein who opened a department store called “The Hub.”
1911: After a
year, Luigi Luzzatti completed his service as the 20th Prime
Minister of Italy.
1912: Clark
University educated mathematician Herman Lester Slobin, the Russian born son of
“Joseph and Anna (Leuchtiger) Slobin” married
Alice Levy in Minneapolis, MN.
1913: B’nai
Israel Congregation was founded in Greensburg, PA.
1913(21st of
Adar II, 5673): Seventy-two-year-old merchant Bernard Wolf passed away today in
Chicago.
1913: Ahavas
Achim Congregation was founded in Buffalo, NY.
1914: Today,
the Young Men’s Hebrew Association of Asbury Park, NJ made public a letter to
the Reverend Dr. Aaron E. Ballard, the President of the Ocean Grove
Association, protesting again reflections on Jews in a public letter by Dr.
Ballard and condemning his remarks as tending to create racial differences and
prejudice.”
1915(15th
of Nisan, 5675): Pesach
1915: Rabbi
Aaron Elseman is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “America the Hope of
Humanity” this morning at Temple Beth Israel in Manhattan.
1915: The 300
Jewish soldiers and sailors who attended last night’s Seder sponsored by the
Army and Nay Y.M.H.A. which also provided a night’s lodging at the Hotel Roland
are scheduled to worship at Temple Beth Israel at Lexington and 72nd
Street.
1915: The
Secretary of War, the Governor of New York and the Mayor of New York City have
been invited to attend tonight’s Seder sponsored by the Army and Navy Young
Men’s Hebrew Association for the benefit of 300 of the 8,000 Jews serving in
the military which is being held at Vienna Hall on Lexington and 58th
Street.
1916: Mr.
Boris Hambourg, violoncellist, gave a recital this afternoon in Aelian Hall in
which he brought forward several unusually interesting pieces of old music by
such composers as Galliard, Galeotti, and Lanzetti.
1916: Dr.
Henry Moskowitz introduced former President Teddy Roosevelt to the crowd
attending the Jewish Bazaar at the Grand Central Plaza where the former Rough
Rider “delivered an address in which he urged both rich and poor to contribute
to help the victims of the European War.”
1917: It was
explained today by those who had formed the Jewish League of American Patriots
“that in mobilizing ‘the forces and resources of the Jewish race in America’ no
attempt would be made to separate the Jews a unit of patriotism but arouse Jews
to full co-operation with other Americans.”
1917:
President Wilson’s telegram to Julius Rosenwald published today read, in part
“Your contribution of $1,000,000 to the $10,000,000 fund for the relief of
Jewish war suffers serves the democracy as well as humanity…Your gift lays an
obligation even while it furnishes inspiration.”
1917: Those listed as being the largest
contributors (and the amount of their contributions) to the Hadassah medical
that will soon be on its way to Palestine included Mrs. Julius Rosenwald
($1,000), Mrs. Daniel Guggenheim ($500), Mrs. Nathan Straus ($500), Rosie
Bernheimer ($500) Mrs. Max Richeter ($250) and Mrs. Robert Hirsch ($250).
1917(7th
of Nisan, 5677): Eighty-one year old Gertrude Hyman Felsentahl, the German born
wife of Herman Felsenthal and mother of Eli, Judith, Flora, Hannah and Emily
Felstenthal passed away today after which she was buried at the Rosehill
Cemetery and Mausoleum in Chicago.
1918(17th
of Nisan, 5678): Shabbat Pesach
1918: As part
of the appeal to raise funds for the Third Liberty Loan a special appeal was
sent to the Jewish community signed by several leaders including Dr. Solomon
T.H. Hurwtiz of the Rabbinical College of American and editor of the Jewish
Forum, Rabbi Henry Guiterman of Scranton, PA, and Dr. Samuel Buhler, Chairman
of the Executive Committee of the Jewish Ministers’ Assoication.
1919:
Birthdate of Oscar Benjamin “Ossie” Schectman the Queens born son of Jewish
immigrants who won the NIT while playing basketball for Long Island University
and “is credited with having scored the first basket in what became the
National Basketball Association.
1919: Simon
Wolf, Dr. Joseph Silverman, Daniel P. Hays and Dr. Nathan Krass were among
those who spoke at Temple Emanu-El this evening at ceremonies marking the one
hundredth anniversary of the birth of Isaac Mayor Wise, leader in America of
Reform Judaism and the founder of the Hebrew Union College and the Union of
American Hebrew Congregations.
1919: “The
Ceremony of Conferring Rabbinical Degree to five students of the Rabbi Isaac
Elchanah Theological Seminary today at the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue.
1920: A
British soldier digging a trench in Syria uncovered ruins of Dura Europus which
would include the discovery a synagogue that dated back to 244 “making it one
of the oldest synagogues in the world.
1920: In
Baranovichi, Poland, Brakha née Sokolovsky and Shraga (Feivel) Tunkel gave
birth to Yaakov Tunkel who would gain fame as Yaakov Banai, a leader of Lehi
also known as the Stern Gang.
1921: The body
of Richmond native Sir Moses Jacob Ezekiel, the graduate of VMI and Confederate
veteran who became “a world famous sculptor and died in Rome in 1917” is
scheduled to be brought to the National Cemetery at Arlington, VA today for
final interment.
1921: “In
Lindau, Bavaria, physiotherapist “Ella (Norden) Kalischer” and
psychoanalyst Hans Kalischer gave birth
to Clemens Kalischer, the American photographer whose skill raises the question
“What is there about Jews and cameras?”
http://forward.com/articles/175376/photographer-clemens-kalischer-survived-holocaust/?p=all
1921:
Churchill visits Tel Aviv where he delivers a speech praising what the Jews
have accomplished in the last twelve years since the city was first founded.
1921: Winston
Churchill visits the “39 year old agricultural colony of Rishon le-Zion where
he spoke approvingly of the accomplishments of the Zionists and the positive
affect their activities have had on the surrounding Arab population.
1921: British
Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill completes his fact finding trip to
Palestine and leaves Jerusalem for Egypt.
1922: “A
Jewish delegation from Massachusetts, accompanied by the Speaker of the House
called on Senator Henry Cabot Lodge today and presented the resolution passed
unanimously by both Houses of the Massachusetts Legislature urging the
Government of the United States of America formally to recognize and approve
the yearning desire of the Jewish people for a national home in Palestine, the
land of their forefathers.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1922/03/31/99005167.html?pageNumber=6
1923: American
Jewish actors Jacob Kalich and Molly Picon who were the principles of in the
Jewish Theatre of Bucharest which was closed today by the Government appealed
to the American Minister to use his good offices to have the closing order
rescinded.
1924: It was
reported today that “the American Jewish Foundation has been organized to take
over the work which up until now has been carried on by the American Jewish
Joint Distribution Committee.”
1924: Rabbi
Maruice Harris and Adolph S. Ochs are scheduled to be two of the speakers at “a
memorial service for Daniel Peixotto Hays on the best-known Jewish
philanthropists” which will be held this evening at Tempe Israel in New York
City.
1925:
Birthdate of Edward Sidney Finkelstein, the native of New Rochelle, NY, “a
master merchandiser who turned Macy’s into one of the nation’s smartest,
fastest-growing department store chains.”
1925: Time magazine published the
following account Rabbi Solomon Goldman’s attempt to make changes at his
synagogue in Cleveland, Ohio.
In spite of generations of prophets and
reformers, Jewish ritual with all its shrilly “orthodox” punctilio
has lived with few radical changes. In Cleveland, Ohio, some months ago, Rabbi
Solomon Goldman, spiritual head of the local “Jewish Center,”
proposed to rid his congregation of some bits of orthodoxy. In particular, he
decided that men and women might sit in the same pews. Here was reform indeed!
Not since Solomon built his great temple had the thoroughly orthodox Jewess sat
with the thoroughly orthodox Jew at worship. She had been relegated to one side
of the temple, or to the gallery, or to a seat in the rear behind a curtain. It
was custom not merely Jewish, but Pan-Asiatic. Muhammadan women do not squat
with men folk in the pit of the Mosque. And even in the new Christian Churches
in China, Japan and elsewhere, women have always, until very recently, sat in a
special section railed or curtained off for them. Now Rabbi Goldman of Cleveland
has changed all this in his congregation. At once A. A. Katz, one of Rabbi
Goldman’s flock, cited him to appear before the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of
America to answer for his ecclesiastical liberality. Rabbi Goldman refused to
appear. In this, he was supported by his congregation. When the week ended, it
was still the turn of the Jewish Fundamentalists to move. It should be noted
that departure from Jewish orthodoxy is not equivalent to becoming a Reformed
Jew. The latter class, whose most prominent leader is Rabbi Stephen S. Wise,
disregards many customs from which Rabbi Goldman is not likely to depart, among
which are:
Blessing – At each service, men are called up
before the congregation to say a blessing before and after portions of the
Torah, which is read— on all Sabbaths and holidays. In congregations where
Jewish customs are meticulously observed, this privilege is auctioned off to
the highest bidder.
Music – No instrumentation is permitted. Weird
half-shouted chants, led by a slippered cantor, are the only melodies.
Costume – Both men and women must wear hats.
The enthusiastically orthodox wear skullcaps, shawls. Men also wear the talis,
a fringed scarf, draped over the shoulders.
1926(15th
of Nisan, 5686): Pesach
1926:
Birthdate of Warsaw native Eugenia Rotsztejn, the Holocaust survivor who became
Eugenia Unger when she married David Unger and emigrated to Argentina in 1949
where she was bat matizvahed in 2017.
1926: “Our
Daily Bread” a silent drama directed by Constantin J. David and written by Hans
Behrendt and Mutz Greenbaum who also served as cinematographer was released in Germany today.
1926: In
Manhattan, “Harold K. Guinzburg, the publisher and co-founder of Viking Press”
and his wife gave birth to Thomas Guinzburg, an editor and publisher who helped
create The Paris Review, and who later became president of Viking Press, the
publishing house founded by his father.
1926: In New
York, “many rabbis devoted their sermons to appeals in behalf of their
suffering co-religionists in Eastern Europe” and asked their congregants “to
support the United Jewish campaign of Greater New York, of which William Fox is
Chairman and Louis Marshall and Felix M. Warburg are Honorary Chairmen.”
1927: At
luncheon at the Astor Hotel, Utah Senator William H. King told the members of
the Brooklyn Women’s Division of the United Palestine Appeal “that he favored
the United States severing diplomiatic relations with any country which failed
because of anti-Semitism to protect its Jewish nationals.”
1928: While
serving in the final year of her term as President of Hadassah Irma Levy
Lindheim the American women’s Zionist organization, declared that the
administration of the ZOA was “not an effective instrument for the
achievement of world Zionist aims for the up-building of Palestine.” In so
doing, she asserted her opposition to the leadership of ZOA President Louis
Lipsky. Although Lindheim was careful to note that she spoke as an individual
and that Hadassah had no quarrel with the World Zionist Organization led by
Chaim Weizmann, she came under attack for her comments from both ZOA leadership
and other Hadassah members. During her presidency, Hadassah was in frequent
conflict with the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), which wanted to control
and dispense the funds raised from the Hadassah membership. The Hadassah-ZOA
conflict had roots dating back to 1918, when Hadassah (founded in 1912) first
joined the umbrella organization, giving up some of its organizational
authority. Seven members of the Hadassah board had been expelled in 1920 when
the organization’s Central Committee refused to raise money for the ZOA fund
Keren Hayesod. Despite Hadassah’s loss of autonomy, the organization’s
membership steadily increased even as general ZOA membership declined.
https://jwa.org/thisweek/mar/30/1928/irma-levy-lindheim
1928:
Birthdate of American Jewish author Carl Solomon.
1929: U.S.
premiere of “Chinatown Nights” based on the story “Tong War” by Samuel Ornitz
and produced by David O. Selznick.
1929: In New
York City “Clair and Dr. Abraham George Sheftel gave birth to Judy Sheftel who
became Judy Feiffer when she married Jules Feiffer.
https://www.mvtimes.com/2016/07/06/judy-feiffer/
1929(18th
of Adar II, 5689): Shabbat Parah
1929(18th
of Adar II, 5689): Sixty-nine year old Maximillian “Max” Heller who served as
Rabbi at Temple Sinai in New Orleans from 1887 until 1829 passed away today.
http://www.uapress.ua.edu/product/Rabbi-Max-Heller,870.aspx
1929:
Birthdate of actress Shirley Stoler, the Brooklyn born daughter of “Russian
Jewism immigrant owners of a used furniture store who appeared on Broadway, in
films and on day-time soaps passed away today.
1929: It was
reported today that Hadassah has acquired a portrait of Nathan Straus painted
by Eward Salzan which will be hung in the Straus Health Center currently under
construction in Tel Aviv.
1930:
Birthdate of Gene Selznick, the native of Los Angeles who helped to make
volleyball the popular sport in southern California.
http://www.latimes.com/obituaries/la-me-gene-selznick-20120612,0,4439222.story#axzz2x2Jxl7y2
1930: It was
reported today that if the government’s case against New York’s Century Club
ever reaches the Supreme Court on appeal, Justice Benjamin Cardozo would be one
of the one the judges who would have to recuse himself because he had been a
member of the exclusive New York social organization.
1930: A citrus
tree was planted on the 140 acre plot purchased in 1926 under the direction of
Mrs. Ada Maimon marking the official founding Ayanot, a women’s farm that took
its name from the two springs located on the acreage. For the next two years,
the women workers lived in Ness Ziona and came to Ayanot every day to cultivate
the soil. In 1932, Ada Maiomon and ten girls would begin living on a cowshed on
the property.
1931: Dr.
Judah L. Magnes, the chancellor of Hebrew University at Jerusalem was the guest
of honor tonight at a reception given by the provost of the University of Pennsylvania.
1932:
Birthdate of A. J. (Arie) Zuckerman, Dean of the Royal Free Hospital School of
Medicine. Zuckerman’s area of expertise is the study of hepatitis.
1933: “The
anti-Semitic economic boycott in Germany was the subject of a conference at the
State Department this afternoon between Under-Secretary Phillips and Rabbi
Stephen S. Wise, honorary president; Bernard S. Deutsch, president of the
American Jewish Congress, and Max Rhoade, Washington legal representative.”
1934(14th
of Nisan, 5694): Fast of the First Born; erev Pesach
1934: “Blue
Moon” a classic popular song written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart was
“registered for copyright as an unpublished work” today.
1935(25th
of Adar II, 5695): Parashat Shmini
1935(25th
of Adar II, 5695): Thirty-nine-year-old Jessie Lee Hellman Alexander, the
Natchez, Mississippi born daughter of Moritz and Beulah Benjamin Hellman and
the wife of Benjamin Mortimer Alexander passed away today in San Antonio after
which she was buried at the Laredo Cemetery in Laredo, TX.
1935: The
celebration of the 800th anniversary of the birth of Moses Maimonides, Jewish
philosopher, who was born on March 30, 1135, in Cordova, Spain began
internationally today.
1936: Among
the teams competing for a slots to represent the United States at the Olympics
are Temple which has three Jews in its starting line-up and the Hollywood
Universals which has two Jews – a fact that seems at odd with the determination
of some Jews to boycott the “Hitler” Olympics.
1936:
Twenty-eight year old Walter Sievers “was sentenced to death today for having
killed a Jewish tradesman name Zirpkowski in his shop last July” as the court
dismissed his claim that he had shot the victim “in a moment of political
excitement” finding instead “that the crime had been committed in cold blood
with the purpose of robbery.”
1936(7th
of Nisan, 5696): Seventy year old David Eder, a British psychoanalyst who
treated soldiers for mental problems during World War I and served as President
of the Zionist Federation of Great Britain passed away today.
1936: “The
first words heard from the Palestine broadcasting station which was opened”
today “by the High Commissioner “This is Jerusalem calling.”
1937: In
Chicago, “the former Dorothy Gurevitz” and her husband, electrician Max Hirsch
gave birth to Charles Sidney Hirsch, the graduate of the University Of Illinois
College Of Medicine in Chicago and “the New York City chief medical examiner
who raced to the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, and returned to the
morgue with every rib broken to face the monumental forensic challenge of
identifying the 2,753 victims of the attacks…”
1937: Based on
information that first appeared in Juedische
Rundschau, “a journal of the Zionist Federation in Germany” relying on a
study prepared by Ernst Karn, “996 teachers and professors have left Germany”
since the Nazis came to power with “239 of them settling in the United
States” where 21 are working at Harvard
and 12 are at Yale.
1937:
According to a press announcement “principals of the Jewish School of Music in
Pinsk face court proceedings because students sang “the first act of Puccini’s
opera ‘Tosca’ which takes place in a Catholic Covent” in Yiddish “outraged Christian
feelings and profaned religion.”
1938: Mrs.
Joseph Stroock, a member of the national Youth Aliyah committee of Hadassah,
the Women’s Zionist Organization of America announced that a total of $20,000
was contributed last night to the Youth Aliyah (immigration) fund of Hadassah
to remove children from Austria as well as Germany and Poland.
1940: At
today’s meeting of its stockholders, The Workers Bank, Ltd. Of Tel Aviv, the
central bank of the cooperatives in Palestine, declared the tenth annual dividend
of 4 per cent on its common stock.
1939: “A
convocation said to be unprecedented in this country was held today in the
Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue with more than 250 rabbis taking part in
prayers and traditional chants for the deliverance of oppressed Jews overseas.”
1940:
President Roosevelt met with Victor Perlmutter today at the White House from
1:23 to 1:27 after which he dined alone.
1941: Two
thousand people who “attended dedication exercises” today “for the New Msifta
Building of the Heshivah Torah Voadath, a Jewish parochial school heard
speeches by Rabbi Isaac Herzog, the Chief Rabbi of Palestine, State Supreme
Court Justice Philip M. Kleinfled and Rabbis Morris Horowitz, Judah Sltzes,
Moses Yoshor, Philip Mendelowitz, Solomon Heinan and M.A. Kaplan.
1941: At the
Hotel Chelsea, in Atlantic City, the five hundred delegates attending the
closing session of the seventeenth annual convention of the Young People’s
League of the United Synagogue of America adopted a resolution calling “upon
Great Britain to open Palestine to refugee Jews and give freedom and
citizenship to those Jews now held in concentration camps” controlled by the
British.
1942: After
being open for only two weeks, the Belzac Concentration Camp has processed
15,000 Jews most of whom were from the Liviv Ghetto.
1943: Senate
Majority Leader Barkley and House of Representatives Minority Leader Joseph
Martin, Jr. were among the speakers at tonight’s “Voice of Washington” meeting
where attendees called for the establishment of sanctuaries in the United
States, Palestine and neutral countries” for the Jews who have escaped the
“atrocities which have already taken a toll or more than two million Jewish
men, women and children and which threaten
death to the rest of Jews in Europe.”
1943: “The
German-controlled Vichy radio asserted today that Hungarian Jews who thus far
have been subject to labor service would be called up,” starting in April “for
military duty for the first time.”
1944: Moshe
Sertok, the head of the international department of the Jewish Agency, asked
Oliver Stanley, the Colonial Secretary to allow any Jew reaching Istanbul from
Nazi-occupied Europe to be admitted to Palestine.
1945(16th of
Nisan, 5705): SS Sergeant Adolf Storms reportedly shot “a Jew who could no
longer walk during a forced March in from Deutsch Shuetzenn to the village of
Hartberg.”
1945(16th of
Nisan, 5705): Nine women tried to escape from Ravenbruck. They were caught and
executed.
1946: “St.
Louis Woman,” a Harold Arlen musical opened its Broadway run at the Martin Beck
Theatre
1946:
Birthdate of Lesley Sue Goldstein who gained fame as recording star Lesley
Gore.
1947: Benjamin
Teller, who is managing the Hapoel’s American Tour announced today that the
soccer team is scheduled to fly out of Tel Aviv on April 6 and arrive in New
York on April 10.
1947: The
Rabbinical Council of Palestine called on the terrorists to halt their actions
and “issued a strong denunciation of terrorism as ‘completely contrary to
Jewish religious feeling.’”
1947: The 18
Americans who made up most of the crew of the SS Ben Hecht, formerly the Abril,
boarded the Marine Carp, an American ship headed for New York. The British had
declined to press charges against the crew.
1948: Because
no supply convoys have reach Jerusalem from the Tel Aviv area with commodities
since March 24 because of attacks by Arab troops, there has been a “growing
shortage of fresh food for the Jewish inhabitants of the city resulting in the
“introduction” today “of bread rationing and the restricting of the amount of
butter given to children.
1948: In
pre-state Israel, in response to Arab aggression, the Yishuv extended the call
to active duty to “men and single women” between the ages of 26 and 25.
1949: Husni
al-Za’im who had become Commander-in-Chief of the Syrian Army in May 1948,
seized power today in a bloodless coup that would de-stabilize Syria with
ramifications that have lasted into the 21st century for both
Israel, the region and the world as a whole.
1949: Yigal
Yadin and Walter Eytan returned to King Abdullah’s villa at Shuneh to try and
reach final armistice terms with the Jordanians.
1950: In
Ottawa, Canadian attorney and CFL owner Sam Berger and his wife gave birth to
Canadian MP David Berger.
1950(12th
of Nisan, 5710): Ta’anit Bechorot
1950(12th of
Nisan, 5710): Seventy-seven year old Léon Blum French, the former French
premier, passed away. Leon Blum was born in Paris, France, on April 9, 1872.
The son of Jewish parents, he studied law at the Sorbonne. He became active in
politics as result of the Dreyfus Affair. Blum became a leader of the Socialist
Part. He was part of a group of left-wing parties in France known as the
Popular Front that opposed Hitler in the 1930’s. As leader of the Popular Front
and head of the Socialist Party, Blum became Prime Minister of France, the
first Jew to hold that position in the history of France. Blum lost his post
before the outbreak of the war over the issue of the Spanish Civil War. After
the Germans invaded France, Blum was arrested by the Petain Government which
tried him along with other officials of the Third Republic on charges of
betraying France. He was found guilty in 1942 and held by the Germans until
1945. Blum briefly returned to public life after the warhttp://jbuff.com/c031110.htm
For more see
Leon Blum: From Poet to Premier by Richard Stokes
1951: Louis
“Lou” Lipman, the Army veteran and star Long Island University basketball
player
1951: Neve
Shalom, a new synagogue, was dedicated in Istanbul,.The building holds more
than 1,000 people, and the 400,000 Lira it cost to be built was raised by the
Jewish community of Galata, Pera, and Chichli.
1953(14th of
Nisan, 5713): Ta’anit Bechorot; erev Pesach
1953:
“Jeopardy” a film noir with music by Dimitri Tiomkin, based on “A Question of
Time,” “a radio play by Hebrew Hawkeye Maurice Zimm” was released in the United
States today.
1953(14th of
Nisan, 5713): Yiddish novelist and poet Abraham Reisen passed away “was
arrested in connection with a point-shaving scandal that had gripped college
basketball” and eventually received a suspended sentence “for violating New York penal code #302 in
connection with tossing a game against Duquesne in January, 1949”
1953: Albert
Einstein announced his revised unified field theory.
1954(25th
of Adar II, 5714): Sixty-seven-year-old Austrian born Dr. Solomon Gandz, the
former librarian and Professor of Arabic and Medieval Hebrew at Yeshiva, passed
away today while serving as “Research professor in the History of Semitic
Civilization at Dropsie College” in Philadelphia.
1957:
“The Libyan government began to enforce a law forbidding any individual or
corporation in Libya ‘to make personally or indirectly an agreement of any
nature whatsoever with institutions or persons residing in Israel.’ The penalty
was eight years in prison and a heavy fine.”
1957(27th
of Adar, II, 5717): Parashat Shmini; Shabbat Parah
1957(27th
of Adar II, 5717): Fifty-eight-year-old Smith College cum laud graduate and
“immediate past president of the National Council of Jewish Women” Katherine A.
Engle the wife of attorney Irving M. Engle, the President of the American
Jewish committee and mother of Mrs. Richard W. Levy of New Orleans, who had
been chairman of the board of HIAS and a member of the board of governors of
the Hebrew University passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1957/03/31/90785342.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1957: In New
York City, Helen and Sam Reiser gave birth to Paul Resier whose credits include
“My 2 Dads,” “” Diner, “Aliens” and “Mad About You.”
1958: Syrian
forces attack Israelis at Lake Hula.
1958: “Strong
Men Face to Face” published today provided a highly negative review of Edna
Ferber’s latest novel Ice Palace which is described as a plot that is
“absent minded to the point of being ramshackle” and which readers who have an
“affection for fiction” will regret to find this work “billed as a novel.”
1962(24th
of Adar II, 5722): Seventy-one year old Boston born, NYU trained career
educator Harold Fields, the WW I veteran and executive director of the National
League For American Citizenship who raised a son, Arthur, with his wife Edith
passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/03/31/83493361.pdf
1962: “It’s
Trad, Dad!” a musical comedy directed by Richard Lester, produced by Max Rosen
and Milton Subotsky, who also wrote the screenplay and starring Helen Shapiro
was released today in the United Kingdom.
1962:
“Delousing of Harry Bogen” published today reviewed “I Can Get It for You
Wholesale” starring Elliot Gould as Harry Bogen and introducing Barbra
Streisand as Miss Marmel-stein.
http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,895977,00.html
1964(17th
of Nisan, 5724): Third Day of Pesach
1964(17th
of Nisan, 5724): Seventy-five-year-old Jeanette Goodman Brill, the widow of
attorney Abraham Brill and “the second
woman to be appointed a magistrate in New York and to the first to be appointed
a magistrate in Brooklyn passed away today.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/brill-jeanette-goodman
1965: In Los
Angeles “Mission Impossible” stars Martin Landau and Barbara Bain gave birth to
actress Juliet Rose Landau
1966:
Sixty-six-year-old Joseph Mortimer Lichtenauer, the husband of Irma Lena
Kaufrman Lichetenauer who “received the President’s prize for design for mural
decorations and whose “portraits and decorative pictures were exhibited at the
St. Louis Exposition” passed aay today.
1966: In
Hartford, CT, Rabbi and Mrs. Abraham N. AvRutick announced the engagement of
their daughter Naiomi to Harold L. Rosenbaum, the graduate of Yeshiva
University who is enrolled at the New Jersey College of Medicine.
1967(18th
of Adar II, 5727): Linguist Uriel Weinreich of whom Dovid Katz said,
“Though he lived less than forty-one years, Uriel Weinreich … managed to
facilitate the teaching of Yiddish language at American universities, build a
new Yiddish language atlas, and demonstrate the importance of Yiddish for the
science of linguistics” passed away today.
1970:
“Applause,” the Tony Award musical “with a book by Betty Comden and Adolph
Green and music by Charles Strouse and starring Lauren Bacall (Betty Joan
Perske) in her Tony Award winning portrayal of “Margo Channing” and featuring
Bonnie Franklin opened on Broadway today.
1971(4th
of Nisan, 5731): Seventy-two-year-old Rabbi Albert N. Mandelbaum, the Jerusalem
born son of Rabbi Simcha and Esther Mandelbaum and former chairman of the
executive board of the Rabbinical Council of America who was educated at the
University of Nebraska, the University of Louisville, and Yeshiva University
who was the husband of “the former Lea Gordon” with whom he had two sons
and one daughter passed away today.
1972(15th
of Nisan 5732): Pesach
1972: Larry
Blyden began playing the role “Hysterium” in “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way
to the Forum” for which he earned the “Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a
Musical.
1973(26th
of Adar II, 5733): Sixty-nine year old Harvard trained and Lasker Award winning
physician, Dr. Sidney Farber, the “director of research at the Children’s
Cancer Research Foundation” who was the husband of “the former Norma C.
Holzman” with whom he had three children – Ellen, Stephen and Thomas – passed
away today.
1973:
Birthdate of Adam Michael Goldstein, the native of Philadelphia known as DJ AM
who found fame and fortune in Los Angeles.
1975(18th
of Nisan, 5735): Fourth Day of Pesach
1975(18th
of Nisan, 5735): Eighty-three-year-old Nancy Cullen the wife of Selfton Louis
Cullen, the sister of Marjorie Cohen and the daufhter of Sir Isaac Alfred
Isaacs and Lady Deborah Isaacs passed away in Sydney, Australia.
1975: Agudas
Achim, the Orthodox congregation in Little Rock, AR, breaks ground for its new
building which is located in western Little Rock.
1976: Israeli
Arabs hold their first Land Day which was public held a protest strike against
the expropriation of lands in the Galilee “for purposes of security and
settlement.”
1976: Five
Israeli Arabs were killed by security forces during mass protests in Nazareth,
Israel. As a result of this deadly incident congregants of Mishkan Israel, a
synagogue in New Haven, raised $10,000 so that their rabbi, Bruce M. Cohen,
could go to Israel to promote peace. Three weeks later, while giving a speech
in Jerusalem, Rabbi Cohen was approached by a young Israeli Arab, Farhat
Agbaria, who shared his dream. Together they founded Interns for Peace.
1976: The
first season of “One Day At A Time” starring Bonnie Franklin ended tonight.
1977: In
Vienna, the annual International meeting of Catholic-Jewish Liaison Committee
whose theme had been “Mission and Witness of the Church” came to an end.
1979: “The
Silent Partner” a crime film starring Elliot Gould was released in the United
States today.
1979:
Birthdate of Berkley, CA, native and currnt Oakland, CA resident Michael David
Lukas, the holder of an MFA from the University of Maryland and author of The Oracle
of Stamboul whose other works include The Watchman of old Cairo,
“The Hypocrisy of Hanukkah” and “From Cairo to Kolkata.” (Editor’s note – he
might be worth the read since he appears to be an author who sees Judaism as
culture thousands of years old which is more than just a three-legged stool of
Anti-Semitism, Israel and the Holocaust, as important as those things might be)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/01/opinion/sunday/the-hypocrisy-of-hanukkah.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/08/travel/jewish-history-cairo-tunis-kolkata.html
https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-399-18116-0
1980: Yakov
Kreizberg made one of his first public appearances as conductor today, when he
led an orchestra at the Marble Collegiate Church in a performance of Haydn’s
Symphony no. 88.
1981: In the
United Kingdom, premiere of “Chariots of Fire” based, in part on the life of
Harold Abrahams with a score conducted by Harry Rabinowitz.
1981: In his
review of ‘Woman of the Year” published today Frank Rich praised the work of
Lauren Bacall whom he said, “is a natural mutual musical-comedy star.”
http://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/30/theater/stage-lauren-bacall-in-woman-of-year.html?pagewanted=all
1981: “The
Geha Interchange which is the confluence of Highway 4 and Road 481 in Israel,”
which “is named after the Geha Mental Health Center” and which “frms the border
between Petah Tikva to Bnei Brak” was opened to traffic today.
1982(6th
of Nisan, 5742): Seventy-four-year-old Austrian born, California grocery store
chain owner Theodore Cummings, the political ally of Ronald Reagan passed away
today while serving as U.S. Ambassador to Austria.
https://www.nytimes.com/1982/04/01/obituaries/te-cummings74-envoy-to-austria.html
https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/cummings-theodore-e
1983(16th of
Nisan, 5743): Second Day of Pesach
1983(16th
of Nisan, 5743): Seventy-six year of Austrian born American high-profile
photographer passed Lisette Model, away today. (As reported by Walter H.
Waggoner)
http://www.nytimes.com/1983/03/31/obituaries/lisette-model-a-photographer-is-dead-at-76.html
1984:
“Misunderstood” a movie version of the novel by the same name directed by Jerry
Schatzberg was released today in the United States.
1984: In
Albuquerque, NM, Sam and Jackie Bregman, both of whom are lawyers gave birth to
Alex Bergman, who played baseball for LSU before signing with the Houston
Astros.
1985: NBC
broadcast the final episode of “Double Trouble” a sitcom starring Jean and Liz
Sagal.
1987(29th
of Adar, 5747): Perry E. Nussbaum the Toronto born son of Adela Newman and Esig
Nussbaum, the husband of Arene Talpis and the father of Leslie Irene Rubenstein
who is best known for his role in the civil rights movement in Jackson,
Mississippi during the 1950’s when that was a real act of courage passed away
today.
https://mississippiencyclopedia.org/entries/nussbaum-perry/
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/nussbaum-perry
1988: U.S.
premiere of the Geffen Film Company’s “Bettlejuice,” costarring Winona Ryder
with music by Danny Elfman.
1991(15th
of Nisan, 5751): First Day of Pesach and Shabbat
1993: The
International Monetary Art Forum featuring the works of Fritz Ascher opened
today in Washington D.C.
1993: Simone
Veil completed almost fourteen years of service a Member of the European
Parliament for France today.
1994: The two
terrorists who attacked Yitzhak Rothenberg, age 70, of Petah Tikva with axes
yesterday were arrested today.
1995(28th of
Adar II, 5755): Fifty-nine record producer Paul A. Rothchild passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/03/obituaries/paul-rothchild-record-producer-59.html
http://www.examiner.com/article/remembering-paul-rothchild
1996(10th
of Nisan, 5756): Parashat Tzav; Shabbat HaGadol
1997: The New York Times includes
a review of “The Vanishing American Jew: In Search of Jewish Identity for
the Next Century” by Alan M. Dershowitz
2000: At least
23 Israeli and Palestinian Arabs were injured in clashes with Israeli security
forces during an annual day of protests.
2000: In Great
Britain, Channel Four broadcast the first episode of “Da Ali G Show, a British
satirical television series created by and starring English comedian Sacha
Baron Cohen.”
2001: “Someone
Like You,” a comedy based on a novel by Laura Zigman, directed by Tony Goldwyn
and featuring Ellen Barkin and Peter Friedman was released in the United States
today.
2002(17th
of Nisan, 5762): Border Policeman Sgt.-Maj. Constantine Danilov, 23, of Or
Akiva was shot and killed in Baka al-Garbiyeh, during an exchange of fire with
two Palestinians trying to cross into Israel to carry out a suicide attack. The
Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility.
2002: Al Aqsa
terrorists took credit for today’s bombing of an Allenby Street coffee shop in
Tel Aviv.
2002: Joelle
Fiasham, a member of the CPUSA, was among those who endorsed the call today for
a national holiday honoring Cesar Chavez.
2003: Het
Parool, which began “as a resistance paper during the German occupation of the
Netherlands” “became the first newspaper in the Netherlands to switch from
broadsheet to tabloid format.”
2003: The New York Times featured
reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of interest to Jewish readers
including “The New Face of War: How War Will Be Fought in the 21st
Century” by Bruce Berkowitz and the newly released paperback edition of
SOROS: The Life and Times of a Messianic Billionaire by Michael T. Kaufman.
2003:
Secretary of State Colin Powell addresses the American-Israel Public Affairs
Committee’s Policy Conference
2003: A suicide
bombing in the pedestrian mall entrance of a cafe in Netanya wounded more than
40 people. Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack, calling it a
“gift to the Iraqi people.”
2004:
“Response to Benny Morris’ ‘Politics by other means’ in the New Republic”
published today provided Ilan Pappe’s response to the views of this long time
Israeli historian.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/response-benny-morris-politics-other-means-new-republic/5040
2005: Release
date of “Live and Become” a French film about an Ethiopian Christian boy who
disguises himself as a Jew to escape to Israel was directed by Romanian born
Jewish director Radu Mihăileanu
2005(19th of
Adar II, 5765): Ninety-one year old high hurdler record holder Milton Green who
protested against Hitler by not participating in the 1936 Olympics passed away
today.
http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/MiltonGreen.htm
2005: Eli
Aflalo began serving as Deputy Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor.
2005: Ruhama
Avraham, a member of Kadima began serving as Deputy Internal Affairs Minister.
2006(1st of
Nisan, 5766): Three Israelis were killed when a Palestinian suicide bomber
detonated explosives in a car after nightfall at the entrance to the West Bank
settlement of Kedumim, located west of Nablus.
2006: Lisa
Kron’s sparkling autobiographical play “Well” opened on Broadway when it
premiered tonight at the Longacre Theater.
2006: Haaretz reported on how a
piece of a Torah scroll passed from a former Nazi offer to a “holy man, ” Rabbi
Yitzchak Dovid Grossman who was sitting yesterday in his home in Migdal Ha’emek
and touching, for the umpteenth time, the parchment cut over 60 years ago from
a Torah scroll in an Eastern European synagogue.
2007:
“After the Wedding” a Danish movie nominated for the Academy Award for Best
Foreign Language Film directed by Susanne Bier who co-authored the script was
released in the United States today.
2008: In
Jerusalem, as part of the Contemporary Music Concert at the Jerusalem Music
Centre The Israeli Contemporary Players perform music by Josef Bardanashvili,
Tristan Murail and Arnold Schoenberg.
2008: The Sunday New York Times featured
a review of “The End of the Jews” by Adam Mansbach.
2008: In
Washington, D.C., Aaron David Miller, a 20-year veteran of the State Department
(most recently as the senior advisor for Arab-Israeli negotiations), discusses
his new book, The Much Too Promised Land: America’s Elusive Search for
Arab-Israeli Peace at Politics and Prose Bookstore.
2008: Wolfie
Cohen’s Rascal House, a Jewish delicatessen located at the intersection of
172nd Street and Collins Avenue in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida, which opened in
1954 and closed today.
2009: Reuven
Rivlin was chosen to serve as the Speaker of the Knesset when he got 90 out of
the 120 possible votes.
2009: Yeshiva
University hosts the first day of the Israel and India International Conference
styled “A Relationship Comes of Age” which includes the following
presenters: Nathan Katz (Florida International University), Amit Kapoor
(Management Development Institute, India), Efraim Inbar (Bar-Ilan University),
Shlomo Mor-Yosef (Hadassah Medical Organization), Maina Chawla Sing (University
of Delhi), P R Kumaraswamy (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi), Gadi Ariav
(Tel Aviv University).
2009(5th of
Nisan, 5769): Fifty-two year old Frank Stein, ‘the face of Australian Jewry in
Israel passed away today. (As reported by Raphael Ahren)
2010: 80th
anniversary of the founding of Ayanot
2010(15th of
Nisan, 5770): First Day of Pesach
2010: A Chabad
house in Budapest was stoned during a Passover Seder.
2011: “The
Matchmaker” and “Seven Minutes in Heaven” are two of the movies scheduled to be
shown at the Hartford Jewish Film Festival.
2011: James
Steinberg completed his term as the 16th United States Deputy
Secretary of State.
2011:”Norman
Mailer: The American” and “The Klezmatics: On Holy Ground” are two of the films
scheduled to be shown at the Westchester Jewish Film Festival.
2011: A
memorial service for George Einstein is scheduled to be held at the Sandestin
Beach Club in Sandestin Resort, Fl.
2011: Today
the World Jewish Congress lauded Colombia’s decision not to recognize a
Palestinian state, saying it showed courage in the face of pressure from
neighboring countries.
2011: “The
United States District Court in Lower Manhattan dismissed a case brought by
Steven’s ex-wife Patricia Cohen based on charges of racketeering and insider
trading.
2011: “Israel
Air Force jets struck a group of Palestinian militants in southern Gaza,
killing one gunman and wounding another as they rode a motorcycle. The Israel
Defense Forces confirmed carrying out the dawn strike, saying it targeted
Palestinians who had launched a short-range rocket across the border yesterday.
No one was hurt in that attack, which followed a surge in fighting around Gaza
this month.”
2012: One
World One People, an exhibit of the works of renowned photographer Arnold
Newman, is scheduled to come to an end at the Jewish Museum of Milwaukee.
http://www.jewishmuseummilwaukee.org/index.php
2012: “The Kid
With a Bike,” “Salmon Fishing in the Yemen” and “Footnote” are scheduled to be
shown at the Westchester Film Festival.
2012: Shabbos
Zingt – A Bay Area Yiddish ensemble that has created a new kind of Shabbos
service, with Yiddish melodies and a Klezmer feel – is scheduled to appear at
Shir Hadash in San Francisco.
2013: In
Coralville, Agudas Achim is scheduled to host Shabbat Yeladim
2013: An ensemble consisting of violinists Anna
Ioffe and Alina Keitlin and harpsichordist Natilie Rosenberg is scheduled to
perform at the Edin-Tamir Music Center.
2013:
“The ( * ) Inn”, an early touchstone for experimental theater in Yiddish,
is scheduled to be performed at the Abrons Arts Center in New York.
2013: Natural
gas flow from the Tamar natural gas field began flowing this afternoon
2013: In
Memphis, TN “Paul Goldenberg, the burly former cop who runs the Secure
Community Network, the security arm of the national Jewish community” has
played a key role with the Jewish community including Cantor Rick Kampf in
preparing for today’s scheduled rally by the KKK. (As reported by JTA)
2014:
“Thousands of French Jews attended an information fair today in Paris about
moving to Israel amid an unprecedented spike in immigration to the Jewish state
and a wave of anti-Semitic attacks.”
2014: The
musical “If/Then” starring Idina Menzel as “Elizabeth” is scheduled to official
open on Broadway at the Richard Rogers Theatre.
2014(28th
of Adar II, 5774): Seventy-one-year-old Rivka Haut, a founder of the Women at
the Wall and fighter for the rights of women within traditional Judaism passed
away today.
http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/new-york/rivka-haut-71-champion-agunot
2014: “Quality
Balls: The David Steinberg Story” is scheduled to be shown on the last night of
the Northern Virginia Jewish Film Festival.
2014: “The
Sturgeon Queens” is scheduled to be shown at the Pittsburg Jewish Film Festival
and the New Jersey Film Festival.
2014:
“If/Then,” a musical starring Idina Menzel as “Elizabeth Vaughn” opened on
Broadway at the Richard Rogers Theatre.
2014: “The
Jews of Ioannnia gathered…to commemorate the seventieth anniversary of the
destruction of the community by the Nazis.”
http://www.timesofisrael.com/greeces-romaniote-jews-face-extinction-70-years-after-auschwitz/
2014: The 6th
annual Gesher Jewish Day School Used Book Sale is scheduled to come to an end
in Fairfax, VA.
2015: “The
Muses of Isaac Bashevis Singer” is scheduled to be shown at the Gershman Y in
Philadelphia, PA.
2015: The
University of Connecticut is scheduled to host a faculty colloquium featuring
historian Elisha Russ-Fishbane on “Maimonidean Controversies in Egypt.”
2015: Dr.
Derek Penslar is scheduled to speak on “Dreyfus Was Not Alone: Jewish Military
Officers in the Modern World” at FIU.
2015: At the
Center for Jewish History, Jeffrey S. Gurock, author of The Holocaust Averted
is scheduled to deliver a lecture that asks the question “What
might have happened to the Jewish community in the United States if the
Holocaust had never occurred?
2015: Carolyn Starman Hessel is
scheduled to retire as Director of the Jewish Book Council.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-book-councils-oprah-turns-the-page/
2015: The
festive opening of The Gazelle Valley Urban Wildlife Park took place this
afternoon with birdwatching workshops, music and theater, and art projects.
2015(10th
of Nisan): “According to the Book Of Joshua” that date on the Jewish calendar
“of the first-ever mass Aliyah with the Biblical narrative relating that the
Israelites crossed the Jordan River” today “ending their 40 years of wandering
in the desert.” (As reported by Deborah Kamin)
2016: Yosef
Garfinkel, Shalom Holtz and Lawrence Schiffman are scheduled to lead a
discussion about the excavations and discoveries at Khirbet Qeiyafa (Elah
Fortress) near Jerusalem and what they suggest about the era and figure of King
David and our understanding of the Bible presented by the American Jewish
Historical Society.
2016: Na’ama
Gold is scheduled to facilitate Café Ivrit at the Jewish Community Center of
Northern Virginia.
2016: The Hadassah Humanitarian Mission to
Cuba is scheduled to come to an end today.
2016: The
Museum of Jewish Heritage is scheduled to host the final performance of “Dudu
Fisher in Jerusalem.”
2016(20th of
Adar II, 5776): Eighty-eight-year-old USC law school alum and entertainment
‘super lawyer” Seymour Lazar passed away today.
2016: Rabbi
Rachel Cowan is scheduled to moderate “When Bad Things Happen to Good People”
at the Skirball Center.
2016: Geoff
“Schwartz signed a one-year contract with the Detroit Lions.
2017(3rd
of Nisan, 5777): Eighty-six year old Emerson College grad, successful
businessman and philanthropist Ted Cutler passed away today.
2017: The
biannual conference of Jewish Voice for Peace which will feature a speech by
convicted Palestinian terrorist Rasmeach Odeh is scheduled to open in Chicago.
2017: The
Counsellor to King Mohammed VI of Morocco, Mr. André Azoulay, is scheduled to
receive the American Sephardi Federation’s Pomegranate Award for Lifetime
Achievement on the opening night of
The 20th
Annual New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival.
2017: “False Flag” and “The Origin of
Violence” are scheduled to be shown at the Seattle Jewish Film Festival.
2017: Louis
Black is scheduled to bring his unique brand of humor to the Paramount Theatre
in Cedar Rapids, IA.
2018: In Tel
Aviv, Pele is scheduled to host what some consider an oxymoron — A Vegan
Seder.
2018: France
J. Pruitt is scheduled to talk about her book Faith and Courage in a Time of
Trouble “a memoir of a Belgian-Jewish girl and her family who were saved during
the Nazi occupation of France through the compassion and heroism of French
peasants from the southern part of the country” this afternoon at the US
Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.
2018: Due to
delays announced by Israel Railways “multitudes of Jews” will not be traveling
to Jerusalem “this Passover” as promised by Transportation Minister Israel
Katz.
2018: In New
Orleans, LA, Temple Sinai is scheduled to host the Young Professionals Seder.
2018(14th
of Nisan, 5778): Fast of the First Born; erev Pesach
2018(14th
of Nisan, 5778): Ninety-four year old Herbert Kaiser, the Brooklyn born son of
Nettie Slavititski and house painter Max Kaiser, the WW II Navy Veteran,
Swarthmore College graduate and Foreign Service Officer who in retirement
raised millions of dollars for training medical personnel in South Africa
passed away today.(As reported by Bart Barnes and Neil Genzlinger)
2018(14th
of Nisan, 5778): Eighty-four-year-old Michael Applebaum, the Newark born
student of violinist of Efrem Zimbalist who reportedly had him change his name
to Michael Tree, the name under which he founded the Guarneri String Quartet
passed away today. (As reported by Neil Genzlinger)
https://www.violinist.com/blog/scottslapin/20184/25758/
2018(14th
of Nisan, 5778): Eighty-four year old “corporate raider and philanthropist”
Samuel Belzberg, the Calgary born son of Polish monger and the husband of
Frances Belzberg with whom he had four children – Marc, Lisa, Wend and Sherry –
passed away today. (As reported by Brooks Barnes)
http://www.jewishindependent.ca/remembering-sam-belzberg/
2019: In a week marked
by the final end of the ISIS hold on territory in Syria and President Trump’s
declaration that the Golan Heights is part of Israel, the question arises as to
what impact this will have on President Assad, the Russian puppet ruler of the
state that provides a home to Hezbollah.
2019(23rd of
Adar II, 5779): Parashat Shmini; Shabbat Parah
2019(23rd of
Adar II, 5779): Ninety-eight year old Leonid Bernstein, “a highly decorated
anti-Nazi fighter; who sabotaged Nazi
train transports and located the German V2 rocket production facility enabling
its precise bombing by the Soviets” passed away today “in the northern Israeli
town of Kiryat Alat.”
https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5488013,00.html
2019: In New
Orleans, the Jewish Children’s Regional Service is scheduled to host the Jewish
Roots of Fashion Gala.
https://jcrs.org/events/jewish-roots-annual-gala/
2020: Rabbi
Lawrence Kushner of Emanu-El in San Francisco is scheduled to lead “Getting a
Head Start on Passover” via Zoom this afternoon.
https://www.jweekly.com/event/virtual-getting-a-head-start-on-passover/2020-03-30/
2020: On-line
this afternoon, Hebrew College is scheduled to present “Facing Your Fears: A
Passover Teaching on Transforming Anxiety Into Understanding.”
2020: In
keeping with the tradition of “esn, esn meyn kinder esn,” through the wonders
of modern technology, the Streicker Center is scheduled to host
“Immune-Boosting Meals” with Anna Gershenson.
2020:
As part of a 3 month trial, scheduled to start today “The Bellamy’s restaurant
in the House of Commons will offer kosher and halal food
2020(5th
of Nisan, 5780): On the Jewish calendar Yahrzeit
for fifty-four-year-old Amy Barnum, the wife of Joel Barnum with whom
she raised three daughters – Emma, Sasah and Gail – and daughter Jack and Bette
Kozlen of Omaha who was a pillar, in the truest sense of that term, of the
Jewish community in Cedar Rapids and a driving force behind the Traditional
Services at Temple Judah whose untimely passing can
only be described as a tragic loss for all of us.
https://www.cedarmemorial.com/Obituary/2017/Apr/Amy-M-Barnum/
2021(17th
of Nisan, 5781): Third Day of Pesach; Second Day of the Omer
2021:
Temple Beth Advodah is scheduled to present “The Great Afikoman Hunt, a
challenging scavenger hunt around the temple grounds” which is a self-run
activity that will challenge your mind and body as you follow clues to find the
afikoman.
2021:
JCCSF is scheduled to present a virtual “Klezmer Accordion Concert” with
“accordionist Jim Rebhan and soprano Barbara Hollinger, a husband-and-wife duo,
play a variety of new and old Passover songs and lively klezmer.”
2021:
The Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston is scheduled to
present online “a discussion with Boston City Councilor Michelle Wu and Dr.
Tareq Abu Hamed, director of the Center for Renewable Energy and Energy
Conservation at the Arava Institute, about the current challenges of climate
change and equity in climate policy.”
2021:
Anna Orbaczewska, a painter and multimedia artist based in Poland represented
by lokal_30 gallery in Warsaw, and Rotem Reshef, an action painter based in Tel
Aviv and New York, and currently artist in residence at RU” are scheduled to
“discuss their engagement with feminist activism as women and artists, and how
it impacts their participation, position, and presentation of their work in
Poland, Israel, the U.S. (respectively) and across borders.
2021:
In New Orleans, the National Council Of Jewish Women is scheduled to hold it
Executive Committee Meeting.
2021: Based on
reports published yesterday, President Reuven Rivlin will not begin
consultations this week with Israel’s political rivals that are designed to
break the country’s post-election deadlock.
2021: Based on
reports published yesterday, Israelis planning to travel this Spring and Summer
because of the improved Pandemic outlook will have to reconsider their plans do
threats by Iranian backed terrorists groups.
2021: For the
first time, Clevelanders driving down Triskett Road this morning will be able
to see the historical marker “A Modern-Day Exodus” honoring Beth Israel-The
West Temple.
2022: Today,
“in the wake of recent deadly terror attacks in Israel,” the World Organization
of Orthodox Communities and Synagogues called for congregations to take
precautions against possible attack including recommendations that worshippers should arrive at services
armed, and a cellular phone should be left on in the building during Shabbat
services while the gabbais must ensure a
first-aid kit is permanently stationed at the synagogue and community heads
must locate the professionals trained to provide first aid so that they are on
alert and able to handle the provision of care to victims when necessary.
2022: “A Classic Novel
Reappears, Just in Time to Narrate a Novel of Its Own” published today provides
a review of The Pages by Hugo Hamilton which finds its “central voice”
in Joseph Roth’s 1924 novel Rebellion.
2023: Michal
Shapira (NC ’95) is scheduled to be the Keynote Speaker at Women Making Waves
2023 at the Tulane University Uptown Campus.
2023: c.a.t.a.m.o.n a collaborative
dance group and cultural organization based in Jerusalem is scheduled to
perform at CPR – Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn today.
2023:
The Museum at Eldridge Street Is scheduled to host “Poetry, Memoir and the Art
of Remembering.”
2023:
The Illinois Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled to host a live staged
reading of Calvin Alexander Ramsey’s award-winning play, The Green Book, which
illustrates commonalities between Jewish and Black American experiences.
2023:
JWA’s book club is scheduled to present a “poetry panel featuring Ann Bookman
(Blood Lines, interrogating the tension between fate and randomness), Irena
Klepfisz (Her Birth and Later Years, the first collection of this trailblazing
lesbian poet and Holocaust survivor’s work), and Joy Ladin (Shehkinah Speaks,
giving voice to the immanent, feminine aspect of the divine).”
2023:
Lockdown University is scheduled to host a webinar by Dr. Helen Frys on “Spies
and Diplomats who Saved Jews.”
2023:
LBI, the Center For Jewish History, YIVO and the American Society for Jewish
Music are scheduled to present program commemorating the 80th
anniversary of the rescue of the Bulgarian Jews.
2023:
Lockdown University is scheduled to host a webinar featuring Trudy Gold
lecturing on “The Case of Chaim Arlosoroff.”
2023:
Thanks to yesterday’s successful launch of an “Ofek-13 spy satellite,” today
Israel’s military are able to enjoy better-quality images which improve its
“advanced intelligence-gathering capabilities.” (As reported by Emanuel Fabian)
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