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70: On the secular calendar the date on which aRoman army under Titus occupied and plundered Jerusalem.
1191: The Crusader army led by King Richard theLionhearted defeated the army of Saladin at the Battle of Arsuf, north of Jaffa.The victory proved to be a tactical one, since Richard was not able to wrestcontrol of Jerusalem from Saladin. Froma Jewish point of view this was a definite plus since the Crusaders hadbutchered the Jews of Jerusalem while Saladin had permitted them to return tothe City of David.
1307(10th ofTishrei, 5068): Alexander Susskindpassed away. Susskind gave his wholefortune as ransom for the body of Rabbi Meir of Rottenberg. Rabbi Meir benBaruch of Rothenburg was a Tosaphist (codifier and commentator on the Talmud),as well as a liturgical poet. He was imprisoned in the town of Ensisheim, whichwas located in Alsace in 1286. When hedied in 1293, the authorities refused to release the body. Fourteen years later the authoritiessuccumbed to their greed and allowed Susskind to buy it back. The remains were given a proper burial at thetown of Worms.
1312:King Ferdinand IV of Castile passed away. During his reign the monarch employed a Jewnamed Samuel as his treasurer. Ferdinandfollowed his advice in political as well as financial matters. This earned him the enmity of the dowagerQueen, Maria de Molina who had ruled before Ferdinand reached hismajority. She, or her sympathizers, mayhave been responsible for the near fatal beating suffered by Samuel
1533: Birthdate of Queen Elizabeth I. There were no practicing Jews living inEngland during her reign but that did not keep anti-Semitism from being a partof the Elizabethan cultural environment as can be seen from Shakespeare’smerchants of Venice. There was a handfulof secret Jews and/or Marranos living in England during her reign. One of themwas Dr. Hector Nunes who provided valuable intelligence to English leaders on themovement of the Spanish Armada. On theother hand Dr. Roderigo Lopez who had served as the Queen’s physician, ended upbeing executed at Tyburn for his part (real or imagined) in a plot to poisonthe queen. The fate of Lopez was the“led to new productions of The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe.
1628: Opening day of the Battle in the Bay ofMatanzas, a naval battle during the Eighty Year’s War fought off the coast ofCuba in which the Dutch captured the Spanish treasure fleet. Moses Cohen Henrqiues, a Sephardic Dutchpirate helped Piet Pieterszoon, the Dutch commander win the victory
1654: A group of 23 Jews from Recife, Brazilarrived in New Amsterdam, 1654. They became the pioneers of the American Jewishcommunity. They arrived on a Frenchfrigate called the St. Catherine. Theirunofficial leader was Asser Levy.Governor Peter Stuyvesant did want the Jews to remain. Eventually they were allowed to stay with thestipulations that "The poor among them shall not become a burden to thecommunity, but be supported by their own nation." This statement would find fulfillment in avariety of Jewish immigrant aid societies and other such philanthropicendeavors.
1654: A petition by Jacques de la Motthe, theFrench master of the ship St. Charles requested payment for Jews and theirfreight which he brought to New Amsterdam from Cape St. Anthony. He said therewere "23 souls, big and little, who must pay equally." After a weekpassed, the Jews belongings were put up for auction, and it was said manyChristians bought the Jews belongings, only to give them back to the Jews.
1701: Today, during the War of the SpanishSuccession, Austrian Emperor Leopold I, who relied on “court Jew” SamsonWertheimer and “Samuel Oppenheimer to procure the money necessary for”equipping and supplying the imperial army, along with the Dutch Republic andBritain “signed the Treaty of Hague” which renewed the Grand Alliance of 1689.
1710:A new decree was issued today for the Jewsof Hamburg, Germany.
https://keydocuments.net/source/jgo:source-29
1764: Birthdate of Revolutionary war veteranand Mason Jacob de Leon, the son of Abraham de Leon who lived in Georgia, NewYork and Charleston who married Hannah Hendriks in 1789.
1774(2nd of Tishrei, 5535) SecondDay of Rosh Hashana
1774(2nd of Tishrei, 5535: IsaacAdolphus, the Bonn, Germany born son of Ephraim Reine Adolphus who was thehusband of Charity Hays and the uncle and business partner of Benjamin Ettingpassed away today in New York
1787: Jonas Phillips, a member of a prominentPhiladelphia Jewish family sent a petition to the delegates of what becameknown as the Constitutional Convention (the[ML1] body that wrote theU.S. Constitution) asking that they not adopt a religious test for Federaloffice holders.
1793(1st of Tishrei, 5554): RoshHashanah and Shabbat
1804(2nd of Tishrei, 5565): SecondDay of Rosh Hashanah
1812(1st of Tishrei, 5573): Jews onboth sides of the Atlantic were joined together by the observance of RoshHashanah but American and English Jews were separated by the conflict known asThe War of 1812.
1814: Birthdate of German Jewish novelistLudwig Kalisch.
1822: Brazil declared its independence fromPortugal. Brazil’s declaration ofindependence triggered an influx of Jewish settlers primarily from Morocco who“set up a synagogue in Belem (northern Brazil) called Porta do Ceu (Gate ofHeaven) in 1824 and later one in Manaus (on the Amazon River).”
1823(2nd of Tishrei, 5584): SecondDay of Rosh Hashana
1826: In London, the Western or Westminster Synagoguewhich had been championed by Myer Solomon “was consecrated” today.
SOLOMON, MYER - JewishEncyclopedia.com
1827: The Russian government decreed that thedraft of Jewish boys would begin at the age of 12. This was part of the Russiangovernment's plan to deal with the Jewish problem. This early draft was intended to separate theyoungsters from their homes and families and force them to eventually adopt theChristian religion.
1831(29th ofElul, 5591): Erev Rosh Hashana
1835: Two days after he had passed away, HenryHarris was buried today at the Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.
1836: In Gnesen, Prussia, Frintze and JuliusPeyser gave birth to Philip Peyser the husband of Natalie Ann Kiliñski both ofwhom would be buried in the Hebrew Cemetery in Washington, D.C.
1837: Birthdate of chess master SamuelRosenthal.
1842:In Sulzburg, Germany, Isaak ad BeilePaulin Kahan gave birth to Rabbi Leo Lippman Elieser Kahn, the husband of SarahKahn and the father of of Jenny Löwenthal; Leah Bamberger; Rosa Wyler; KlaraNussbaum; Brendine Kahn; Mathilde Kahn and Isaak Kahn.”
1845: St. Louis, Missouri,became the site of the first synagogue to be built in the Mississippi Valley.For more information about the history of the Jewish community in St. Louis,consult the two-volume Zion in the Valley by Walter Ehrlich is ProfessorEmeritus of History at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
1847: Dutch native Hannah Van Gelder and PhilipMarcus Leuw gave birth to Marcus Leuw.
1847: In Germany, Emanuel and Hannah KramerWassan gave birth to Carolina Wassman Laski, the wife of New York City merchantMarks Laski whom she married in 1874 and the mother of Leon and Caroline Laski
1848(9th of Elul, 5608): Forty-one-year-oldAbraham Kohn, the leading Reform Rabbi in Lemberg died today after having beenpoisoned yesterday Abraham Ber Pilpel who had been hired by traditionalistoffended by impact that Reform was having on their concept of Judaism.
http://books.google.com/books?id=YGWkaoee5yEC
1849: In South Carolina, Max E. Cohen andArmida Harby Cohen gave birth author Leah Cohen Harby, the granddaughter ofsouthern Jewish leader and author Isaac Harby and the sister of writer CarolineCohen Joachimsen.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/harby-leah-cohen
1850(1st of Tishrei, 5611): As Jewscelebrate Rosh Hashanah, Americans breathe a sigh of relief with the passagethis month of the legislation known as the Compromise of 1850 which avoided theoutbreak of Civil War. Unfortunately,the compromise did not hold and ten years later, America would cross the abyss.
1851: In the Netherlands, Simon van den Berghand Elisabeth van der Wielen gave birth to future resident of France, Henry vanden Berg, the husband of Henriette Charlotte van den Bergh and
Father of Colonel Donald Stanley van den Bergh,JP; Captain Seymour Jacob Henry van den Bergh; and Lieutenant Robert JamesHenry van den Bergh.
1851: Dinah Levy and Benjamin Woolf Phillipsgave birth to Samuel Phillips.
1854(14th of Elul, 5614): Seventy-two year oldMoses Elias Levy, a native of Mogador, Morocco and “the son of a local courtierand factor to the Sultan named Eliahu ha-Levi ibn Yuli who “founded a shortlived Jewish refugee colony in Micanopy, Florida, a state his son David LevyYulee represented in the United States and who finally settled in England wherehe worked to gain support for improving the conditions of Russian Jews, passedaway today.
http://www.jewish-american-society-for-historic-preservation.org/images/Moses_Elias_Levy-5b.pdf
1855: In Rotterdam, Benjamin Moses Verveer, theAntwerp born son of Mozes Abraham Verveer and Saartje Isaac van der Velden andhis wife Clara de Bok gave birth to a stillborn son.
1856: In “Kalwaryea, Russia Simon and Celia(Epstein) Simons gave birth to realtor David Simons who came Detroit in 1870where he worked in the junk business and operated a paper factor before hebegan selling real estate, building houses and constructing factories under thename of Simons Realty while serving as the treasurer of “ShaaryzedeckSynagogue” and being the husband of the former Laura S. Broudy.
1859: Tuik Davis married Esther Emanuel at theGreat Synagogue today.
1860: Giuseppe Garibaldi captured Naples todayand set up a provisional government. Because of the family's close politicalconnections with Austria and France, this put Adolf von Rothschild in adelicate position. He chose to take temporary sanctuary in Gaeta with theBourbon king Francis II of the Two Sicilies but the Rothschild houses inLondon, Paris, and Vienna were not prepared to financially support the deposedking. With the ensuing unification of Italy, and the mounting tension betweenAdolf and the rest of the family, after forty-two years in business the Napleshouse closed in 1863.
1861(3rd of Tishrei, 5622): ShabbatShuva
1861: Twenty-nine-year-old German nativeAbraham Hart enlisted today in the “73rd Pennsylvania Infantry,Company at Philadelphia for three years” and was commissioned as a 1stLieutenant
1862: In New York Gustavus Speyer and SophiaSpeyer (née Rubino) gave birth to Sir Edgar Speyer the American born financierand philanthropist who became a British subject whose loyalty to his adoptedhome led him to be created a baronet.
1862: Today “Florian Moss, a son of Joseph L.Moss of Philadelphia was appointed Captain’s Clerk on the United States Ship‘Vermont’ which was attached to the South Blockading Squadron.”
1863: During the Civil War, Alfred Mordecai,Jr. was promoted from Captain to Major in the Union Army. He would eventually become a BrigadierGeneral.
1864: In Rotterdam, “Jet Monasch” and “EleazarVan Biene” gave birth to Rebecca Van Biene, the wife of Salomon Linneweil andthe mother of Henriette Linneweil.”
1864: Corporal Joel J. Hertzog completed his three-yearenlistment with Union Army which included serving with Company M of the 28thRegimen and Company D of the 147th Regiment.
1866: Birthdate of Paul Bernard who gained fameas French man of letters and attorney Tristan Bernard and whose celebrityfinally earned his release from Drancy during WW II.
1867: The North Chicago Hebrew Congregationwhich has been led by Rabbis Norden and Hirschberg and whose members haveincluding A.J. Franks and E.C. Hamburgher was founded today.
1868: In New York City, Simon Wormser andLeonora Wormser gave birth to banker Isidor Wormser, the father of Edith L.Wormser
1869(2nd of Tishrei, 5630): SecondDay of Rosh Hashanah observed as the first passengers to arrive at the westernterminus of the newly completed transcontinental railroad spent their firstfull day in San Francisco.
1871: One day after he had passed away, 16-year-oldFrank Phillip Eskell, “the son of Albert and Sarah Eskell” was buried today atthe “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.
1871: The German Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gothaconferred a barony on Julius Reuter, the German-born English pioneer of thenewswire service which is known as Reuters.This meant that Israel Beer Josafat, the son of a rabbi who had become aLutheran would now be known as Baron de Reuter.
1871: “The Bed of the Tiber” published todaydescribed various attempts to retrieve relics from the Roman river and/or todivert it in attempts to clean its fetid waters. According to Addison’s HisRemarks on Several Parts of Italy in 1701, the Jews had approached the Holy Seewith a proposal that they would clean the bed of the stream in exchanged forthe right to keep whatever they might find among the debris.
1872: Birthdate of Samuel S. Koenig theHungarian born American attorney and leader of the New York Republican Party.
1873: In Lithuania, Russia born Denver RabbiElias Hilikowitz and his wife Riva Rebeca Hilikowitz gave birth to Philip Hillkowitz
1874: In Navasota, TX, Simon and Henrietta (Hyman) Levy gavebirth to Gustave Abe Levy, the husband of Nellie Stuart whom he married hemarried in 1902 and who was the secretary and treasurer of the S.A. RiderJewelry company in St. Louis.
1877(29th of Elul, 5637): Erev ofRosh Hashanah,
1877: Rebecca (Hart) Hallenstein, the wife ofEdward Ruben Hallenstein whom she married in Australia and with whom she hadeight children, was buried today at the Willesden Jewish Cemetery onBeaconsfield Road
1877: Two days after she had passed and onlythree days before her 30th birthday, Helene (Samuel) Flack, thedaughter of Lambert Samuel and Leopoldine Friedberger, and the wife of ErnestFlack, with whom she had five children was buried today at the Balls Pond RoadJewish Cemtery.
1877: “The Jewish New Year” published todayreported that “this evening the Israelites throughout the world will commencethe celebration of Rosh Hashanah or the New Year.” After describing the differences in the observanceof those “who still adhere to the Rabbinical ritual” and those “who haveenlisted under the banner of reform” the article points out that “thecelebration of the festival is considered as a preparation for the solemn fastof Yom Kippur or Day of Atonement.”
1879: Rabbi Isaac Noot officiated at thisafternoon’s dedication service for the new synagoguehousing B’Nai Israel. Located on 4th street, thebuilding is a simple edifice lacking the expected Moorish columns and stained-glasswindows. The congregation’s leaders include its President, Meyer Rosenthal andits Vice President, Lewis I. Schilt.
1879: The Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Societyfacility was officially opened to the public today in New York City. The society is committed to provide for theneeds of destitute and vagrant Jewish children.Currently the society is provided shelter, food and education for 33children ranging in age from 1 to 10 years.
1879: Rabbi E. M. Myers officiated at therededication of Baith Israel which had reconfigured its pews to allow for mixedseating.
1880: It was reported today that “GeorgeSolomon, a Jewish writer” has published a new work – The Jews of History andthe Jesus of Tradition Identified.
1881: Henry Lezinskey, a Jewish wholesaleliquor dealer from New York was arrested in Long Branch, NJ on charges ofstealing $775 from John J. Wheeler, the owner of the Germania Hotel.
1881: In Manhattan, Leonard and Rosalie Jacob Lewisohngave birth to Frederick Lewisohn, the husband of Rhoda Seligman Prudhomme whomhe married in 1907.
1882: Abraham Erlanger, the Germa born on of Simon (Schimele) Erlanger andRosine Reele Erlanger and his wife Bertha Bela Erlanger gave birth to GaliRivka Ascher, “wife of Maurice Halevi Ascher and mother of David Ascher; SimonAscher; Caroline Kreindel Munk; Mosi (Moshe) Ascher and Eva Spitzer.”
1883: In Podelov, Romania Rose Cohen and MeushaChaim Bauch gave birth to Solomon Stan Bauch who in 1900 came to the UnitedStates where he earned a medical degree at Long Island College Hospital anddeveloped a specialty in treating tuberculosis.
1883: TheIndianapolis News reported that “a tag on a pair of boots in front” of astore “on South Illinois Street” owned by a Jewish merchant reads “$1.25, noteach.” The reason for the strangewording is that a competitor advertises boots at a $1.25 and then charges thecustomer $2.50 because each boot costs $1.25.
1884: “To Fight the Machine” published todaydescribed the battle for the First Congressional District in New Orleansbetween the regular Democratic organization and the self-style “reformDemocrats” who are backing Carleton Hunt against General Adolph Mayer, “amillionaire Jew with an ace for social distinction.
1884: Four days after he had passed away,Michael Heymanson, the husband of the former Adelaide Jewell was buried todayat the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1885: Three days after he had passed away,Amsterdam native Sadok Schneiders was buried today at the Balls Pond RoadJewish Cemetery.
1888(2nd of Tishrei, 5649): SecondDay of Rosh Hashanah
1888(2nd of Tishrei, 5649):Fifty-one-year-old Isaac Lowenburg, the German born son of Fanny and Samuel Lowenburg,and husband of Ophelia Lowenburg and Fanny Lowenburg passed away today inNatchez, Mississippi after which he was buried in the Jewish Plot of NatchezCity Cemetery.
1888: “The Beaches at Rockaway” describedeconomic and social conditions at various New York beaches during the justended summer season. Among other things, the clientele at the Far RockawayBeach has shifted from being “a fashionable resort” that attracted notableslike Horace Greely, to being so heavily visited by those of Irish origins thatit was called the “Irish Long Branch.” However,during the past three years there has been such a growth in the number ofJewish families that fewer and fewer old time families from Troy and Albanyhave been coming to the beach.
1889:In Frankfurt am Main Isa and Karl Flesh gave birth to Max Flesch-Thebesius
1890:As of today, it is estimated that the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society willneed $74, 850 from the City of New York in 1891.
1890:Today, in the United Kingdom, the Chief Rabbi consecrated the HammersmithSynagogue which needed to be enlarged in 1896 at which time “Rev. MichaelAdler” served as Minister and Secretary.
1890:Birthdate of New York native and Yale University drop out Manuel Komroff whotraded in a career in engineering for that of a writer which included producing45 novels including historical ones “on such subjects as Waterloo, life in theMiddle Ages, and on such personalities as Marco Polo, Caesar, Abraham Lincoln,Thomas Jefferson, Napoleon, Talleyrand, Charlemagne and Marie Antoinette.”
https://www.amazon.com/Manuel-Komroff/e/B001HD0XD8%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share
1890:“New Publications” published today provided a review of Recha byDorothea Gerard.
1891: It was reported today that at least oneJew has been arrested in Odessa on charges of having helped hundreds of wealthyJewish youths evade the draft by injecting them with a combination of petroleumand cotton oil that gives them the appearance of “a serious skin infection.”
1891: Gittel and Shmul Yakov Weinberg gavebirth to Baltimore clothing manufacturer Harry E. Weinberg the husband of theformer Kate Markowitz and father of Selma Ruth (Weinberg) Richmon.
1891(4th of Elul, 5651): HeinrichGraetz, one of the intellectual giants of the 19th century and theauthor of multi-volume History of the Jews a seminal work in more waysthan one, passed away. (This blog cannotdo justice to his accomplishments and impact)
1892: In Brooklyn, Dr. A.W. Shepard completedhis examination of the corpse of Lazarus Aizenstat and determined that he hadbeen strangled by more than one attacker since three coils of rope were used.Police believe that the Jewish immigrant from Odessa was killed by his roommatea man known variously as Isaacs or Solomon in an attempt to rob him 35,000rubles alleged to have been in his possession.
1892(15th of Elul, 5652):Sixty-five-year-old Sarah Cohen Wolfe, the Charleston born daughter of Rabbi HartwigCohen and Deborah Marks Cohen and the wife of Sailing Wolfe with whom she had sevenchildrein – Isabel, Rose, Solomon, Deborah, Henrietta, Sarah and Hartwig –passed away today passed away today inWinnsboro SC after which she was buried in the Hebrew Benevolent SocietyCemetery in Columbia, SC.
1893: Moses Alvares Vega married Sara TereseaAmeringen in Amsterdam today.
1893: The funeral for Charles Frank, theSuperintendent of the United Hebrew Charities will take place this morning at58 St. Marks Place.
1893: Three days after he had passed away, ninety-year,Joseph Barrow Montefiore, the husband of the former Rebecca Mocatta with whomhe had fourteen children was buried today at the Balls Pond Road JewishCemetery.
1893: "Women elbowed, trod on each other’stoes, and did everything else they could without violating theproprieties" to find a place in the overcrowded hall to hear women speakat the first-ever Jewish Women's Congress.
1893: Birthdate of (Isaac) Leslie Hore-Belisha,1st Baron Hore-Belisha (of Devonport), statesman and inventor of belishabeacons. Born in London, he was British secretary of state for war (1937-40)who instituted military conscription in the spring of 1939, a few months beforethe outbreak of World War II.
1895(18th of Elul, 5655): ParashatKi Tavo
1895: Birthdate of Joseph Richard Vogel whoreplaced Arthur Loew as President of MGM where approved the production as suchhit films as “Gigi,” “North by Northwest” and “Ben Hur” as well as such flopsas “Mutiny on the Bounty.
1895: The Magistrate at the Essex Market PoliceCourt sent the son of Aaron Rosie Goldstein back to the New York JuvenileAsylum from which he had escaped months ago after having been convicted ofbeing a burglar.
1896(29th of Elul, 5656): Erev RoshHashanah
1896: “As soon as the gun on Governors Island”was fired announcing that it was “sundown” Rosh Hashanah services began in awide variety of venues and congregations in New York City.
1896: In the Bowery, large crowds attendedservices at the Thalia Theatre and the Liberty Theatre. Rabbis Schengold and Silverman officiated atthe Orthodox service at the Thalia while Romanian Jews attended the services atthe Liberty.
1896: “Reader Isidor Kartschmaroff conductedservices” at Congregation Beth Israel and Dr. Levi Kleeburg delivered a sermonon “the necessity of being as observant watchful the entire year as on itsfirst day.”
1896: Rabbi Kauffman Kohler officiated at NewYear’s services this evening at Temple Beth-El.
1896: Rabbis Joseph Silverman and GustavGottheil conducted New Year’s Eve services this evening at Temple Emanu-el.
1896: Rabbi Moses Maisner conducted New Year’sEve services at Adath Israel Synagogue on 57th Street.
1897: “Mathew Sterling Borden, Yale ’95, theson of Chicago millionaire C.D. Borden” married “Mildred N Nerbaur, thedaughter of Jewish tailor in New Haven; in Worcester, MA for the second time –the first marriage having ended in a divorce forced on the couple by the seniorBorden.
1897: In Kiev, violinist Samuel Sherman whoafter the 1903 Pogrom fled to the Austro-Hungarian Empire where he became aconcertmaster, first violinist and composer and his wife gave birth to AvrumSherman who gained fame as Tin Pan Alley song writer Albert Sherman, the fatherof two other composers Robert and Richard Sherman.
1898(20th of Elul, 5658): RabbiSimon Brenner, the husband of Caroline Brenner and the father of BrooklynMagistrate Jacob A. Brenner passed away today.
1898: Birthdate of New York City native andCCNY trained CPA “Benjamin Louis Hiilson,” the graduate of JTS Teachers Collegewho was editor of Mizrachi Youth and co-editor of Aliyah,
1899: At the opening oftoday’s session of trial of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, his counsel Maitre Laboritold the court that the former military attaches for Germany and Italy “wouldbe unable to personally before the court” and asked that special measures betaken to receive their depositions. Thecourt rejected the request.
1899: In Pittsburgh,Pa, Samuel and Lottie Ritz Parker gave birth to Benjamin Myron Parker, theeldest of their six children, a graduate of Cooper Union and the JewishInstitute of Religion from which he graduated in 1926 “with the degrees ofrabbi and master of Hebrew Literature” and the spiritual leader of MizpahCongregation of the Ochs Memorial Temple.”
1899: The second courtmartial of Colonel Dreyfus comes to an end.
1899: The Beth MoshavZ'keinim (Orthodox Home for Aged Jews), was organized today in Chicago.,Illinois.
1899: Dr. Emil H.Hirsch, the rabbi of Sinai Congregation and a member of the faculty of theUniversity of Chicago expressed his disapproval of the Jews of Memphis, TNpetitioning the Kaiser “to allow any evidence he may control to appear in theDreyfus case” because such a request, if made, should come from the Americancommunity, not the Jewish community because Dreyfus was being tried as a manand not as a Jew.
1900: As an alternative to suspending constitutional rights, Franz Josef,Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary, under whose reign the Jews enjoyed aperiod of success and prosperity that led them to be loyal to him and theempire, ordered the dissolution of theAbgeordnetenhaus, the elected body of the Reichsrat, Austria's parliament
1901(23rdof Elul, 5661): Parashat Nitzavim; Leil Selichot observed as the BoxerRebellion in China formally came to an end.
1902(5thof Elul): On the Jewish calendar Yahrtzeit of author Solomon Zalman Geiger(5635)
1903: S. H. Borofsky of Boston addressed “amass meeting” sponsored by the Sons of Zion in Holyoke, Massachusetts.
1903: Today’s Philadelphia Inquirer described how the police in Camden closeddown the amusements which were part of an outing sponsored by the Hebrew Socialand Education Club on Sunday “much to the indignation of the members” becausethey violated the law.
1904: As of today, the trustees of Adath IsraelCongregation in Camden, NJ were listed as Abe Zuberman, J.Z. Blank, HenryPinsky, Louise Cade, William Fox, Harry Horwitz, William Blank, PhilipAuerbach, Nathan Fuhrman, J.H. Perksie, Jacob Weinstein and Harry Neuere.
1904: Dr. Rudolph J. Coffee conducted today’sfuneral service for Dr. Herman Baar, the former Superintendent of the HebrewOrphan Asylum in New York. Among theattendees, were the children from the orphanage which currently serves almost1,000 youngsters
1905: In Cleveland, OH Edith (née Joseph) andLouis Rorimer gave birth to James Joseph Rorimer, the director of theMetropolitan Museum of Art who was the driving force behind the creation of“the cloisters” and would have remained unknown to most people were it not forhis role as a member of U.S. Army’s Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Sectionmaking him one the “Monuments Men” who was the character portrayed by MattDamon in the film of the same name.
1905: Birthdate dermatologistAbraham “Dutch” Koransky, the Purdue University fullback, graduate of theUniversity of Chicago’s Rush Medical School and decorated WW II Army Veteranwho practiced medicine until 1985.
1906: A Pogrom tookplace in Shedlitz, Russia. This was partof the pattern of unrest that preceded and followed the defeat of the Czar'sarmy in the Russo-Japanese War.
1906: A 20-year-old Russian Jew, David Gruen,landed at Jaffa. History would come toknow him as David Ben Gurion. Ben Gurion is Hebrew for Son of Gruen
1906: In Louisville, Adath Israel began threedays of ceremonies and exercise marking the dedication of its new sanctuaryunder the leadership of Rabbi Hyman Gerson Enelow.
1907(28th ofElul, 5667): Parashat Nitzavim; final Shabbat of 5667 since erev Rosh Hashanahbegins tomorrow night.
1908: In Schenectady,NY “Joseph E. Grosberg, a grocery industry pioneer and one of the founders ofwhat later became the Price Chopper grocery chain” and his wife RachelGrossberg gave birth American cookbook author Mildred Grosberg Bellin, the wifeof Dr. Harold Bellin.
1908: WashingtonUniversity (St. Louis) trained medical doctor, the Leeds, England born son ofBecky Silverblatt and Abraham Singer married Flora Lowenstein today.
1908: It was reported that Dr. David Balustein,the former head of the Educational Alliance presided over a meeting at ClintonHall during which hundreds of Jewish citizens “discussed Commissioner Bingham’sarticle in a current magazine in which he asserts that more than fifty percentof the criminal class in New York are Jews.”
1909(22nd of Elul, 5669): Abraham (Abe)Schwabacher one of three Bavarian born Schwabacher brothers who settled inWashington Territory where they developed businesses in Walla and Seattlepassed away today.
1909: Sigmund Freud Gives First of FiveLectures on Psychoanalysis at Clark University
1910: Eighty-three-year-old English painterWilliam Hunt who in 1869 built a house at #64 Rehov HaNevi’im (Street of theProphets) where he planted a pear tree that would provide the inspiration for apoem by Rachel Bluwstein.
1910: “Mother,” “the first successful play byJules Eckert Goodman, the Gervais, Oregon or so Jenette Rothschild and S. NewmanGoodman opened on Broadway today at the Hackett Theatre.
1911(14th of Elul, 5671): Seventy-five-year-oldMoses Freudeger de Obuda passed away today in Budapest, Hungary
1911: Birthdate of Nicole Sebbah who wasshipped to Auschwitz in 1942.
1911: Ceremonies marking the dedication ofSynagogue Oheb Shalom began today in Newark, NJ.
1912(25th of Elul, 5672): ParashatNitzavim-Vayeilech: Leil Selichot
1912: Following the Syracuse Convention, OscarStraus, the nominee for governor of New York on the Progressive and IndependentLeague tickets and his wife arrived in Tarrytown this afternoon where they willrest for a few days before returning to the New York City where he would launchwhat he said would “as strong a campaign as he was capable of making.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1912/09/08/100375253.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1913: “Jews of Today” provided a full-scalereview of The Jews of Today by Arthur Ruppin with an introduction byJoseph Jacobs.
1913: Carl Jung made public break with Freud.
1913: Birthdate of Alexander Lerner, an expertin cybernetics and refusenik who met with Senator Kennedy at his Moscowapartment in 1974 and finally emigrated to Israel in 1988 where he worked “inthe mathematis department at the Weizmann Institute of Science.”
1913: In Washington Heights, “Joseph Durst, aJewish immigrant from Galicia” and the former Rose Friedwald gave birth to realestate developer Seymour Durst, the creator of the National Debt Clock andhusband Bernice Herstein Durst with whom he had four children – accused murderRobert Durst, Chairman of the Durst Organization, Douglas Durst, philanthropistand writer Thomas Durst and philanthropist and writer Wendy Durst Kreeger.
1914: As the Allies fought desperately at whatwas called the Battle of the Marne, the loss of which would mean a completeGerman victory, a legend was born when six hundred taxicabs each carrying fivesoldiers, brought re-enforcements from central Paris to the battle line atNanteuil-le Haudouin.”
1915: Outfield Sam Mayer made his major leaguedebut with the Washington Senators.
1915: As of today, the officers of TheFederation of Rumanian Jews of America include Dr. Julius Weiss, President;Samuel Goldstein, Vice President; and Isaac Abreman, Chairman of the BuildingCommittee.
1915(28th of Elul, 5675): Sixty-three-year-oldHerman Gross passed away in Chicago.
1915: In London, “The Jewish Chronicle, referring to alleged German peace proposalssays: “We wonder whether it is really believed that the Jews of the UnitedStates or elsewhere could be deceived by such a transparent move, and whetherany of our brethren anywhere are such downright simpletons as to act the partof Germany’s instruments and help the Germans to an opportune peace in returnfor a vague promise which they have neither the power nor the means to carryout. We should like to know since when this people, the patentees ofanti-Semitism and its arch fomenters in Russia, have been bitten with such apassion for Jewish freedom that they must needs head a pro-Jewish campaign orperish.”
1916: “Came Here to Escape the War” publishedtoday described the plight of forty-give Spanish Jews who had been living inGreece where they “said bread was 50 cent a pound…and that there was greatpoverty on account of the war and for whom the Hebrew Sheltering and ImmigrantAid Society will provide assistance until they find employment here in theUnited States.
1917:Pavel Axelrod of the Organization committee of the Russian Social DemocraticParty and Karol Radek and Jacob Hanecki of the Social Democracy of the Kingdomof Poland and Lithuania were among the delegates attending the “ThirdZimmerwald Conference” – a meeting of anti-War Socialists – continued to meet for a third day inStockholm
1918(1st ofTishrei, 5679): Rosh Hashanah
1918: The JewishWelfare Board issued “a call to greater patriotic services” which was sent“every community which ended by saying “In loyal devotion to the understandingof serving the fighting forces of our country, may American Jewry find abundanthappiness during the coming year
1918: Rabbi SamuelBuchler, the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Jewish Ministers’Association of America sent President Wilson a letter thanks him for hispositive attitude to the creation of Jewish Homeland in Palestine.
1918: For the firsttime ever, in Washington Heights, Temple B’nai Israel is scheduled to hold RoshHashanah services at the Y.M.H.A. building on St. Nicholas Avenue.
1918: Jewish sailorsand naval officers were able to observe Rosh Hashanah because of furloughsgranted by the Secretary of the Navy.
1918: At Temple Beth-Elon 5th Avenue, Rabbi Samuel Schulman delivered a sermon on “Is Godin the War?” that opened with the statement that “God is in the war becausehumanity is paying the retribution for universal sin and defeat will come tothat power which most glaringly incarnates the sin of our civilization.
1918: Consecration the“New Romanian Synagogue: in Manchester, UK.
1918: “Mounted militiaand leaders of the Council of Workmen and Soldiers’ Delegates were summoned todisperse the mob when anti-Jewish riots began at a leather factory in Moscow.
1918: In San Sebastian,Spain, Jewish New Year services were held for the first time in 400 years. Theservices were attended by 30 worshipers.
1919: One day after his32nd birthday Hebrew Technical Institutegraduate and Cooper Union trained chemical engineer Henry Irving Cohen, the NewYork born son of Peiser and Miriam Cohen who was a member of the Society ofCivil Engineers and the Maimonides Benevolent Society married Gertrude Nathan,
1919: Date which the mother of Isaac Asimovused to enroll him in the first grade – which showed him to be almost a yearolder than he really was.
1919: Today, at the Broadway Central Hotel,“more than 800 people attended a convention of the Federation of Ukrainian Jewsin America” it was decided “that the massacre of their brethren in EasternEurope must finally be stopped and” the assistance of the United States iscritical as can be seen by the fact that federation has already sought andreceived support from Secretary of State Lansing.
1920: The Hebrew Technical Institute, one ofthe oldest and “well-established Jewish institution” in New York whose nearly2,000 graduates have gone on to be “architects, engineers, draughtsman,electricians and skilled mechanics, is scheduled to begin its Fall Term today.
1921: The first Miss America Pageant was heldin Atlantic City, NJ. Bess Myerson wasthe first Jew to win the contest in 1945.
1922(14th of Elul, 5682): Seventy-year-oldRussian born Yiddish author Joseph S. Glick who came to the United States in1887 where he published a Yiddish paper in New York before moving to Pittsburgwhere among other things he published TheJewish Post, a weekly Yiddish paper passed away today.
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1922: Birthdate of pianist Art Ferrante. Thisnon-Jew gained fame as part of the duo Ferrante and Tachere which recorded thetheme from “Exodus.”
1923: Birthdate of Yiddish speaking Americanactor Hy Anzell whose film credits included appearances in “Bananas” and “AnnieHall.”
1923: Birthdate of Holocaust survivor PeterDavid Bisseliches.
1923: JTA reported today that “Anti-Jewishdisturbances broke out simultaneously in two places in Roumania this week. InBacau student disciples of the anti-Semitic agitator, Professor Cuza, invadeden masse a hall in which a Jewish students' dance was being held and attackedthe guests. The police, according to eye-witnesses' reports, received here,worked in cahoots with the mob, arresting Jews who attempted to fight backtheir assailants. Among those taken into custody are two officials, SolomonPascal and Carl Meyerowici. Deputy Christo Vianu, liberal, who witnessed theattack issued a statement following the disturbance demanding the release ofthe officials. He confirms that the police favored the assailants. A thoroughinvestigation of the attack and drastic punishment for the offenders ispromised by the Minister of Justice, who hurried to Bacau on receiving reportsof the disturbance. “With the beginning of the new semester at the Universityof Klausenberg, the rector Jacobovicci has promised police protection to theJewish students who were routed from the campus. The Minister of instruction,in view of the disturbances, has announced he will facilitate the issuance ofpassports to Jewish students who desire to study in foreign countries. Thegovernment is still timorous about opening all of the universities on accountof the fear of more trouble. The league of Non-partisan Students has issued amemorandum appealing to the authorities to open "the universities beforewe become gray".
1923: The JTA reported today that Lord Rothschild had presided at Leeds at a meeting calledto reestablish the local branch of the Anglo-Jewish Association. Thosespreading anti-Semitism contend, Rothschild said, that the Jew is incapable ofbecoming a good citizen. "We must prove to the world that this is a grosslibel. We must prove that the Jew cannot only be a good citizen but can be abetter citizen than anyone" he insisted. D'Avigdor Goldsmid who also spokesaid that the Anglo Jewish Association has existed for 52 years and in all ofthat time had played an active part in Jewish affairs of the British Empire.TheAssociation, he said, takes a great interest in Palestine, having pledged tosupport the British Government in the execution of the mandate and to do allpossible to assist in the development of the Jewish Home land.
1923: TheJTA reported that negotiations are now under way between representatives of theVaad Ha-Ir, or Jewish Council of the city with the Municipality of Montrealover the issue of establishing schools for the Jewish children of Canada’slargest municipality.
1923: JTAreported that The American Keren Hayesod has made a second payment of $57,000towards its 50,000 pounds subscription to the Rutenberg Electric Company,sponsoring the electrification project in Palestine.
1924: AnnaKasor Dantzig, the widow of Berry Dantzig passed away today in Kansas City MO.
1924: Birthdate of composer Leonard Rosenmanthe Brooklyn native who created the theme for the television hit "MarcusWelby, MD.”
1925: Today “Dr. Stephen S. Wise, rabbi of theNew York Free Synagogue, returned on the white Star liner Adriatic from a visitto England, France, Switzerland, Spain and Austria, during which he attendedthe Zionist Congress in Vienna as delegate from tile America Jewish Congress,of which is the President.”
1926: In Los Angeles, motion picture pioneerSamuel Goldwyn and actress Frances Howard gave birth to movie producer SamuelGoldwyn, Jr.
1926: JTA published figures portraying theemployment picture in Palestine. Unemployment has increased since the cessationof building activity in the country. In July 1925, the number of unemployed was300, in August 950, September 975. October 1,750, November 2,000. December2,700, in January 1926, 4,729, February 4,741, March 4,902, April 5,657, May6,113 and June 6,400. Most of the unemployed are in Tel Aviv where they number3,500; in Haifa there are 1,500 unemployed and in Jerusalem 300. About 2,000 ofthe unemployed in Tel-Aviv belong to the building trades In the period from January to June 1926, over 5,000immigrants are reported to have entered Palestine, about 1,400 of them beingabsorbed in the colonies.
1926: In Montreal, “Morris Rosenfeld and theformer Vera Friedman” gave birth to Ezra Rosenfeld” whose mother changed hisname to Isadore which meant that he gained fame a cardiologist and author underthe name of Isadore Rosenfeld.
1927: JTA reported that the largest bequest ever received by the National JewishHospital here was made by Louis Heineman of Jamestown, N. Y. A gift of $100,000will be paid in 18 months by the Union Trust Co., of Jamestown, N. Y. from theestate of Louis Heinemann, who was a patient at the hospital 12 years ago. Asum of $100,000 was made in gifts to friends and relatives, and the remainderof the estate of $300,000 will go to the local Jewish Hospital and the HebrewUnion College of Cincinnati.
1927: JTAreported that Louis Marshall, president of the American Jewish ReliefCommittee, has expressed his astonishment at the sensational charges made byMax D. Steuer on his arrival from Europe concerning the alleged existence offraud in the administration of unnamed Jewish relief funds prior to 1925.Mr.Marshall invited Mr. Steuer to communicate to the Joint Distribution Committeeany facts bearing upon the subject to which he has referred. Mr. Marshall isready, he stated, to call a meeting of the Executive Committee at theconvenience of Mr. Steuer for the presentation by him of any evidence that hemay have. The statement also urged that judgment be suspended untiltrustworthy, first-hand evidence is produced to justify such charges.Mr.Marshall's statement read: "I am astounded at the statement purporting tohave been made by Mr. Max D. Steuer on his return from his trip abroad, withregard to the expenditure of funds collected in the United States by Jewishagencies for the relief of suffering Jews in Europe. He is credited with sayingthat the moneys collected since June, 1925, have reached the properdestination, have done much good and have been economically administrated butthat the moneys contributed prior to that time have been uneconomicallyadministrated and a substantial part of them have never reached those for whomthey were collected and intened. He goes so far as to say a part of the moneywas actually stolen by American representatives.
"The principal collecting and distributing agencyduring the past thirteen years has been the Joint Distribution Committee andits constituent organizations. The moneys collected and distributed prior toJune, 1925, for the relief of Jews in Europe have been received and disbursedunder identically the same auspices as those which functioned since June, 1925.
"Apparently Mr. Steuer is not speaking from personalknowledge. It does not appear that he has actually been government. Thecommittee on immigration determined yesterday on a budget of £17,000 which willbe used for extending aid to the new arrivals and for maintaining a staff inPalestine and in European centers. The program provides for the admission of aminimum of 1,500 Chaluzim during the coming year.
The determination of the American delegates to carrythrough their plan was handicapped by the fact that they were unable to name anAmerican to the triumvirate as was demanded by Dr. Weizmann. The carrying outof the American efficiency program without naming an American to put it intoeffect would be "Brandeisism without Brandeis," Dr. Weizmann isreported as having told the American delegation. He appreciated the Americans' attitude,but he would expect them to delegate their own man to carry through theprogram. The labor groups and the Mizrachi have declared that they are opposedto the American plan but advocate a coalition Executive which would assumeresponsibility for the political and economic work. At this moment theAmericans were induced to abandon their original triumvirate proposal and agreeto an executive of four, it being understood that the fourth member is to beDr. Arthur Ruppin, the Zionist colonization expert. Dr. Ruppin, however, hasdeclined to accept nomination on the Executive.
The Committee on Committee has extended an invitation toMessrs. Sacher, Kisch and Friesland to appear before it and present theirprogram. It was stated that Dr. Weizmann was persuaded to agree to an Executiveof five in Jerusalem and it is understood that he will submit his list to theCommittee on Committees today. In the meantime, many of the delegates areleaving Basle, including several Americans.
Simon Rief, prominent Baltimores leader, died Monday,aged 63.
Among the many projects with which Mr. Rief wasadentified were the Talmud Torahs and the United Hebrew Charities. He was aleader in the Zionist movement in Baltimore.
He was formerly President of Mishkon Israel and B'naiIsrael Congregation
1927: “ThePrince of Pappenheim,” a silent film with a script co-authored by RobertLiebman was released today in Germany.
1927: JTA reported that Alfred M. Cohen international President of theIndependent Order B'nai Brith returned on the steamer Hamburg from an extendedtour in Europe. He was met at the pier by Dr. Boris D. Bogen, ExecutiveSecretary of the Order and by numerous friends.
1927: JTA reported that a gift of $250,000 to the University of Chicago fromLouis B. Kuppenheimer was announced by Vice President Frederick C. Woodward.The money will be used to establish an endowment fund to be known as the LouisB. and Emma M. Kuppenheimer Foundation. The income is to be used for a study ofthe structure, functions and diseases of the eye, and for the support ofteaching and research in the department of ophthalmology [Louis Kuppenheimer wasthe son of Jonas Kuppenheimer and the brother of Albert Kuppenheimer, the triowho over fifty years ago came to Chicago and stared what has become one of theworld’s largest clothing concerns in the world.]
1928: “Palestine Bank to Open in December”published today quoted Jacob Siegel, President of the Palestine HoldingCorporation as saying “the bank will start its operations with several hundredmanufacturers, the most active element in the business life of Palestine, asits depositors, each whom will own some stock in the bank.”
1928: “Lipsky Sees Progress in in Palestine”published today quoted Louis Lipsky, the President of the Zionist Organizationof America as saying “the economic conditions in Palestine were improving andthat there were fair prospects of a resumption of Jewish immigration intoPalestine during the course of the year.”
1929: Based reports published today there arenow 9,200 refugees scattered throughout Palestine as a result of Arab terrorand violence. Of this number 2,500 are gathered in Jerusalem, 1,500 at TelAviv, 2,700 at Haifa and 2,500 at Safed.
1930: In Bucharest “the government hasapparently relaxed all of the severe measures which promised againstanti-Semitic agitators” since today it released all of those who arrested withthe exception of two Orthodox priests.
1930: “Telegrams received in official quartersin India from London confirm recent rumors that Sir Herbert Samuel, the formerHigh Commissioner for Palestine…will be the next Viceroy of India.”
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1931: “Julius Sizzer” a “two reeler” in whichBenny Rubin who co-authored the script, plays the parts of two brothers wasreleased today in the United States.
1931(25th of Elul, 5691): Seventy-six-year-oldpathologist Dr Nathan Weidenthal, the son of “Bernard and Dorothea (Deborah)Weidental and the husband of “Ernestine (Esther) Weidenthal” passed away todayin his home town of Cleveland, OH.
1932: A memorial service was held in Baghdad tomark the passing of Sir Eskell Sassoon, the First Finance Minister of Iraq whowas praised in a eulogy by the Prime Minister for his “character, culture, hisoutstanding personality, his vast knowledge, sense of duty and the properfulfilment of that duty no matter how great the sacrifice was in time or inlife.”
1932: It was reported today that Ethel Cohen ofProvidence, R.I. “was elected head of the ladies’ auxiliary” of the Jewish WarVeterans at their convention which came to an end yesterday in Atlantic City,NJ.
1932: Representative Emanuel Celler of NewYork, who returned today on the Europa, accompanied by Mrs. Celler, predictedthat beer and light wines would be legalized at the next session of Congress.In anticipation of this he said that he went abroad as a member of theJudiciary Committee to study the licensing systems of various Europeancountries.
1933: Louis Gradner began serving as the Mayorof Cape Town, S.A.
1933: Seventy-one year old Edward Grey, 1stViscount Grey of Fallodon, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs at thestart of World War I who signed the Sykes-Picot Agreement which has had such asignificant impact on the Middle East and Israel and who in 1914 when asked byMP Herbert Samuel “about a homeland for the Jewish people” replied “that theidea had always had a strong sentimental appeal to him and he would be preparedto work for if the opportunity arose” passed away today.
1934: “A condensed and revised version theJewish historical pageant, "Romance of a People," will be presentedon the stage of the Roxy Theatre beginning” today.
1934: The New York Times reviewed ThoseWho Perish, Edward Dahlberg’s novel about “the psychological repercussionsof Hitlerism on the people who worked for a Jewish community house in the townof New Republic, NJ.
1935(9th of Elul, 5695): Parashat KiTeitzei
1935(9th of Elul, 5695): Rabbi MaxFried passed away today in Brighton Beach.
1935: In Chicago, insurance salesman andUkraine native Morris Mandel and Molly Lavin, “a secretary to a musicpublisher” Molly Lavin gave birth to Lois Jean Mandel the University of Chicagograduate and wife of Myron Liben who gained fame as “Lois Libien, who brokeground in the 1960s as a female journalist in a largely male field but whoattracted her widest readership by providing household hints in books and anationally syndicated newspaper column…” (As reported by Sam Roberts)
1936: It was announced today that the AmericanJewish Joint Distribution Committee and its affiliate, the American JointReconstruction Foundation, appropriated $1,040,000 in 1935 to help Jews inPoland and other Eastern European Countries.
1936:A 25-percent taxis imposed on all Jewish assets in Germany.
1937: “Funeral services were held today aGolders Green Jewish Cemetery” for Sir Albert Levy, the founder of AdrathTobacco Company and creator of the State Express cigarette brand who donatedmillions to bot Jewish and non-Jewish charities and institutions.
1938: Birthdate of Newark, NJ native andBarnard College graduate Susan Levitt who gained famed as Susan Stamberg “oneof NPR’s ‘Founding Mothers’” who was the wife of Louis C. Stamberg and themother of Josh Stamberg.
1938: In Brooklyn, Celia Liebes and salesmanSamuel Moskowitz gave birth to “Charlie Moss, the visionary advertisingexecutive credited with producing the stunningly successful “I ♥ NY” tourismcampaign in the mid-1970s — a time when garbage, graffiti, crime, racial strifeand a serial killer made America’s cultural capital anything but lovable” whowas the husband of Susan Calhoun Moss and the father of Sam and Mary Moss. (Asreported by Sam Roberts)
1939: During World War II, the Polish air forcewas now completely destroyed after less than a week of combat. Germany beganplans to move troops to the West (French Border.) Despite being sworn tosupport Poland, France declined to attack or militarily engage Germany. This inaction was a prelude to France’sfeeble resistance to the German attack in the Spring of 1940 and thewillingness with which many Frenchmen would collaborate with the Nazis.
1939: As the Wehrmacht and the SS death squadsswept through Poland, persecution of the Jews began with the application ofeconomic sanctions placed on the Jews of Bedzin.
1939: At approximately 5 p.m., Polishgovernment, which had left Warsaw the day before, arrived at Łuck which wouldlead to bombing of the town since German intelligence quickly found out aboutit
1939: In keeping with the spirit of thenon-aggression pact the Soviet Union signed with Hitler Stalin approved the newparty line which was to be adopted by Communists throughout the world that thewar being waged by the French and English was unjust and imperialist.
1939: Polish “rabbi, historian, politician,Bible scholar, assyriologist, and orientalist” Moses Schorr who had “enteredthe Jewish Civil Committee” left Warsaw with his wife Tamara because he knewthe Nazis would arrest him when they got to the Polish capital.
1940(4th of Elul, 5700): ParashatShoftim
1940(4th of Elul, 5700): Eighty-one-year-oldBaden native and owner of the “brush manufacturing firm J. Dukas and Company”Julius J. Dukas who came to the United States at the age of 19, married SarahHyman Dukas with whom he had one daughter and whose activities in the Jewishcommunity included serving as “President of the Hebrew Free Loan Society for 35years” passed away today.
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1940: In a speech to a special SS Squad,Himmler said that there was only one goal, ". . . To create an order thatwill spread a consciousness of Nordic blood until we draw to us all the Nordicblood in the world."
1940Duneera arrives at Sydney, carrying Jewish refugees from Axis countries,incarcerated as enemy aliens.
1940: As the Luftwaffe attempted to make goodon its promise of defeating the English through air attacks, the Nazi air forceshifts tactics and begins daylight and nighttime bombing of London.
1941:British ForeignSecretary Anthony Eden notes that "if we must have preferences, let memurmur in your ear that I prefer Arabs to Jews." This strain of anti-Semitism was acceptableat certain levels of British society and certainly was part and parcel of theBritish Foreign Office. Eden wasChurchill’s protégé. Supposedly he was responsible for the policies that keptthe British for doing more to rescue the Jews of Europe and to admit them toPalestine. Eden finally became PrimeMinister in the 1950’s. His governmentfell as a result of the Suez crisis when Eden clumsily tried to remove Nasserfrom power; a ploy that included covert support for an Israeli strike acrossthe Sinai Peninsula.
1942:At least 5000Jews from Kolomyia, Ukraine, are deported to Belzec; 1000 are killed in theKolomyia Ghetto itself.
1942: Milwaukee native Mildred Fish-Harnack andher husband Arvid Harnack, members of the “Red Orchestra” were arrested by theGestapo today
1942: Third baseman Cy Block made his majorleague debut with the Chicago Cubs.
1942: The main article on the foreign page of The Time of London was headed"Vichy's Jewish victims, children deported to Germany." Where theywere deported was not stated. There wasplenty of information floating around that England's "newspaper ofrecord" could have at least speculated as their fate.
1943: A transport left Westerbork forAuschwitz. Among those on board wereEtty Hillesum and her family.
1943: Today at the Free Synagogue House Dr.Stephen S. Wise officiated at the funeral services for seventy-seventy year oldHarvard law school trained federal judge and Zionist leader Julian W. Mack, theSan Francisco born son of William Jacob and Rebecca Tandler Mack who marriedthe former Cecile B. Blumgart after his first wife Jessie Fox had passed away.
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1944: After having been interrogated by theGestapo for almost a month, Victor Kluger, one of those who helped hide theFrank family, “was moved to the prison on Weteringschans, in a cell with peoplesentenced to death.”
1944:Following the eruption of the Partisans’ Revolt in Slovakia, the Nazis resumedtheir deportations of the Jews which today resulted in the arrest of RabbiChaim Michael Dov Weissmandl, his wife, his four daughters and one son in Nitrawhich lead to their ultimate transport to Auschwitz.
1944:Hungarianauthorities permit Ottó Komoly, a Jew, to rent buildings in Budapest to be usedfor the protection of Jewish children. Komoly will ultimately protect 5000children in 35 buildings.
1944: As World War II reached its climax andthe realignment that would produce the end of the British mandate in Palestine,today the United States recognized the independence of Syria and Lebanon.
1945(29th of Elul, 5705): Erev RoshHashanah
1945(29th of Elul, 5705): Seventy-year-old“general medical practitioner” and graduate of Columbia’s College of Physiciansand Surgeons Milton A. Gershel, the “former house physician at Mt. SinaiHospital and “resident physician for the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society”passed away today in Manhattan.
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1945: Abe Bloomberg began serving as Mayor ofCape Town, SA.
1945: “In the reconstructed wing of awar-damaged synagogue in the Kreuzberg section of Berlin, 400 members of thecapital’s remaining community of Jewish gather at sundown tonight for the firstRosh Hashanah observance since their liberation from a twelve year campaign ofextermination.”
1945: “Americans Capture Warsaw Murder”published today described the capture in Japan of Joseph Alfred Meissinger, theGerman war criminal who “ordered the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto and sent10,000 Jewish children to a concentration camp where they were killed duringthe Rosh Hashanah holy days.
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1945: The Hebrew Sheltering and immigrant AidSociety will conduct Rosh Hashanah services for detainees at Ellis Island“while other services will be held for recent arrivals” no longer convinced tothe immigration facility “at the society’s synagogue at 425 Lafayette Street.
1945: “For the first time in fifteen years,Frank L. Weil, president of the National Jewish Welfare Board said all Jewscould feel a surge of hope as they welcomed a New Year,” “but he added that thevictory only highlighted the magnitude of the tragedy that has befallen theoppressed peoples and provided new outlets for traditional American generosity.
1946: “The Jewish Progressive Moderate party,Aliyah Hadasah, today cabled Dr. Chaim Weizmann” the president of the Jewishagency, “urging that the Jewish Agency should attend the Palestine conference”scheduled to open in London on September 9.
1946: The Cypriot Government “announced that awoman claiming to represent an American news agency” who stated “that she hadtraveled the entire distance with a group of Jewish immigrants on the vesselFour Freedoms” had surrendered to authorities at a detention camp and was being“interrogated” by members of the British military.
1946: Settlement of a three-month-old strike inthree plants of the D. Emil Klein company, cigar manufacturers” was announcedtoday after the owner agreed to a twelve and a half cent wage increase, a newminimum wage and a group life insurance plan for the employees.
1946: In Stuttgart, Germany, Holocaustsurvivors Lily Gliksman and Sy Zaks gave birth toe Dartmouth and Smith College trainedTony award winning director Jerry Zaks, the husband of Jill Rose with whom hehad two children – Hannah and Emma – and the winner of the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Playand Drama Desk Award for directing The House of Blue Leaves (1986), Lend Me aTenor (1989), and Six Degrees of Separation (1991) and the Tony Award for BestDirection of a Musical and Drama Desk Award for Guys and Dolls (1992) who “servedas Resident Director at Lincoln Center from 1986 to 1990 and is a foundingmember of the Ensemble Studio Theatre.”
1947: “Harry Levine, a plastics manufacturerfrom Leominster, MA, who plans” to build a “$500,000 factory in Palestine saidtoday that he saw” the possibility “of creating a large industry based on theresearch at the Weizmann Institute of Science at Rehoveth.”
1947: “A secret broadcast by Irgun Zvai Leumi…emphatically denied published reports, which it described as of British origin,that the organization had welcomed the proposal of the majority of the UnitedNations Special Committee on Palestine for partitions of the Holy Land.”
1948: “An undisclosed number of casualties wereinflicted on Israeli troops and civilians today while Arab forces in northernJerusalem suffered three killed and six wounded in a violent artillery andmachine gun battle in Jerusalem that continued from dawn until almost noon.”
1948: “Sundown Beach” by Bessie Breuer openedon Broadway in NYC.
http://jwa.org/thisweek/sep/07/1948/bessie-breuer
1949: The USS Benjamin Peixotto, adecommissioned “liberty ship” that had been sold to China “went aground in Tolaharbor at Hong Kong during a typhoon.
1950: Two Holocaust survivors from Budapest whomoved to Israel Peter David Bisseliches and Agnes Steiner married today
1950:Birthdate of Emmy award winning actress Julie Kavner. Kavner is best known for her role as BrendaMorgenstern in “Rhoda” and the voiceof Marge on “The Simpsons.”
1951: Fritz Sonnenberg began serving as Mayorof Cape Town, SA.
1951: “Spurred by the current food crisis,Israel has signed a contract with a private Ethiopian group for the purchasewithin the next year of 10,000 tons of meat equal to six months' rations forthe entire Israeli population. Shipments from Eritrea through the Red Sea andthe Gulf of Aqaba to the Israeli port of Elath are expected to begin in a fewmonths.”
1951: Sir Zelman Cowan, the 19thGovernor General of Australia and his wife gave birth to Rabbi Shimon Cowen,the “Director of the Institute for Judaism and Civilization” in Melbourne whois according to at least once “affiliated with Chabad Chasidism” the Jewishtraditional Jewish group best known for its work of outreach amongnon-affiliated Jews.
1952(17thof Elul, 5712): Eighty-three-year-old Moses David Lederman, the Manhattan bornson of David and Helena Bien Lederman the husband of Belle Weil Lederman passedaway today in the Bronx after which he was buried at the Mount Hope Cemetery inBrooklyn.
1953: Following the death of Stalin, NikitaKhrushchev becomes head of the Soviet Central Committee. During the post-WorldWar II period, Nikita Khrushchev had governed the Ukraine, an area of intensesuffering for the Jews during the war and an area where the local populationhad worked with the Nazis to murder their Jewish neighbors. “Ukrainian Jews whofled to Soviet Asia during the occupation slowly returned to reclaim theirhomes, possessions and jobs. The Ukrainians who remained in the communities werehostile to the returning Jews. “The Khrushchev led government refused tointerfere in the conflicts between the Russians and the Jews. As a result,anti-Semitic sentiments surfaced everywhere — in the nation’s literature andart, and through political propaganda.”In his new position, Khrushchev was the first among equals. He did not replicate Stalin’s paranoidanti-Semitism and Jews actually benefited from Khrushchev’s program ofde-Stalinization that began in earnest in 1956.Khrushchev would use his new position to support the Arabs in the MiddleEast. He would proivde the arms andsupport for the Egyptians and the Syrians which made them a threat to Israel’svery existence in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s.
1954(9th of Elul, 5714): Sixty-seven-year-oldEvelyn Mosenfelder, the St. Louis, MO born daughter of Pauline and GeorgeWashington Milius and the wife of Simon Mosenfelder with whom she had threechildren – Robert, Dorothy and Margaret – passed away today in her hometown.
1954: “Betrayed” a WW II spy story moviedirected by Gottfried Reinhardt, featuring Theodore Bikel and with a musicalscore co-authored by Walter Goehr was released in the United States today.
1955(20th of Elul, 5715): Seventy-four-year-oldAline Bernstein, the pioneering Broadway designer passed away today.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/aline-bernstein
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1955(20th of Elul, 5715):Seventy-three-year-old University of Pennsylvania trained physician Dr. IsraelBram, the goiter specialist passed away.
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1955: Birthdate of mathematician Efim Isaakovich Zelmanov. Born in the Soviet Union, Zelmanov has taughtin a number of American universities as he did the academic work that led tohim winning the Fields Medal in 1994.
1955: In Istanbul, apogrom aimed at the city’s Jewish, Armenian and Greek populations came to anend.
1956(2ndof Tishrei, 5717): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1956: Roman Catholic RalphBranca the son of Italian born trolley car conductor and Kati Berger, a Jewishimmigrant from Hungary whose uncle Jozsef Berger died at the Majdanekconcentration camp, and whose maternal aunt Irma died in Auschwitzconcentration camp in 1942 pitched his last game for the Brooklyn Dodgrs.
1956: In Columbus, OH, Florence Mazie (néeCohen), an amateur tap dancer, and Edward Feinstein, a sales executive for theSara Lee Corporation and a former amateur singer gave birth tomulti-dimensional musician Michael Jay Feinstein.
1959: In Detroit, Michigan, Clarita(Gershowitz) Karlin and Julian John Schamus gave birth to U.C. Berkley graduateJames Allan Schamus the “award-winning screenwriter, co-founder of Good Machineproduction company, and the CEO of Focus Features.”
1959: In Chicago, the 3rd PanAmerican Games in which Eugene Selznick’s Volleyball team won the gold medalcame to an end.
1960: Two days after he had passed away funeralservices are scheduled to held at Riverside Chapel for 64-year-old Jack DavidTarcher, the husband of Mary Tarcher with whom he had three children – Jeremy,Judith and Miriam – who was a leader of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropiesof New Yew York, having served as a Trustee at Large for more than two decades
1961: Alf Honikman began serving as Mayor ofCape Town, SA.
1963(18th of Elul, 5723): ParashatKi Tavo
1963(18th of Elul, 5723): Eighty-four-year-oldHungarian born and JTS educated Morris D. Waldman who had spent more than fortyyears working with various Jewish social agencies including the New York UnitedHebrew Charities, the American Joint Distribution Committee and Jewishfederations in Boston, Brooklyn and Detroit passed away today. (As reported byJTA)
1964(1st of Tishrei, 5725): As Jewsobserved Rosh Hashanah, they now enjoyed a new sense of inclusion thanks to theefforts passage two months ago of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which outlaweddiscrimination based on religion. Jewswould repay the efforts of Lyndon Johnson, the man who made this possible byvoting for him in overwhelming numbers in the November elections.
1965: It was reported today “Playroom,”described as a “thriller” is scheduled to be produced on Broadway this Novemberby Kermit Bloomgarden who “will dispense with the usual out-of-town tour.”
1966: ABC broadcast the first episode of “TheMonroes,” a family Western created by Milt Rosen and co-starring BarbaraHershey
1966(22nd of Elul, 5726): Sixty-seven-year-oldcomedian Al Kelly, the native of Russia named Abraham Kalish and husband ofMary Kelly suffered a fatal heart attack tonight at the Friars Club, two yearsafter celebrating his 50th anniversary in show business.
1967: Walter Gradner completed two years ofservice as Mayor of Cape Town.
1969: During the ‘War of Attrition “Shayetet 13carried out Operation Escort, raiding the Egyptian anchorage at Ras Sadat anddestroying a pair of Egyptian P-183 torpedo-boats.”
1970(6th of Elul, 5730): Ninety-year-oldthe Warsaw born Zionist Yitzhak Gruenbaum who was the first Interior Minister of Israelpassed away today.
http://www.jspacenews.com/yitzhak-gruenbaum-israels-king-jews/
1972: “Preparations were under way today for afull state funeral” for the Israeli athletes murdered by the Palestinianterrorists at the Munich Olympics which will take place after Brig. Gen.Mordechai Prion, the Chief Rabbi of the IDF has returned with the bodies.
1972: “Munich, 1972” published today questionsthe propriety of resuming the Olympic Games while “the bodies of the elevenIsraeli athletes and coaches killed by Arab terrorists were still unburied”,places the blame for the slaughter on all “of the Arab nations” except forJordan and asks “the basic question” of “how to guard the internationalcommunity against the depredations of such fanatical madmen.”
1972: As the world reacted to the MunichMassacre, The White House issued a statement “saying that President Nixon ‘wasdeeply saddened at the outcome of the tragic incident and offers heartfeltsympathy to the victims” and “Pope Paul told a group of visiting pilgrims thatthe massacre at the Olympic Games ‘truly dishonors our time.’”
1972: In New York, “more than 2,000 peoplefilled City Hall Plaza for a memorial ceremony honoring the Israeli athletesmurdered at Munich “presided over by Mayor Lindsay” where many of those inattendance wept as Cantor David Koussevitsky changed El Mole Rachmim.”
1973: “Ha’aretztheatre critic Tzipora (Tzipi) Shoat” gave birth to Israeli classicalcomposer Gil Shoat.
http://www.dailyjews.com/articles/379_gil_shohat_interview.htm
1975(2nd of Tishrei, 5736): SecondDay of Rosh Hashanah
1975: As the Soviet Union continued to followits path of increasing its influence in the Arab world, much to the detrimentof Israel, “a delegation of army political workers from South Yemen began aweek-long visit to the USSR.
1976: As relations continued to worsen betweenUganda and Kenya, due in part to Idi Amin’s anger and embarrassment over theIsraeli rescue mission at the Entebbe airport, “intelligence informationreaching Paris today said that President Idi Amin has planned a ‘revengeoperation’ against Kenya.”
1978(5th of Elul, 5738): Sixty-two-year-oldCecil Aronowitz , the South African viola player who was appointed “head of theString Department at the royal Northern College of Music in Manchester” passedaway today at Suffolk while “performing a piece by Motzart.”
1979: Leo Leonard (born Maxwell Lefkowitz)delivered the “first words” on “Sports Center’s inaugural broadcast” which “launched…ESPNon its path to becoming a television empire.”
1982(19th of Elul, 5742): Fifty-three-year-oldLeonard Marvin Kramer, the son of Ida and Jacob (Yankel0 Kamer and the husbandof Anita Shirley Kramer passed away today in Boston, MA.
1983(29th of Elul, 5743): Erev RoshHashanah
1983: “Revenge of theNinja,” directed by Sam Firstenberg, produced by Menahem and Yoram Globus andfilmed Tel Aviv born cinematographer David Gurfinkel was released today in theUnited States.
1984: Blood Simple” acrime file “written, edited, produced, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coenwhich was the directorial debut of the Coens and the first major film ofcinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld” was released today in the United States.
1985: “A staged concert” featuring music fromStephen Sondheim’s “Follies” took place at Lincoln Center.
1985: “My Beautiful Laundrette” a comedydirected by Stephen Fears premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.
1986(3rd of Elul, 5746): Thirty-one-year-oldmusic promoter Ruth Polsky passed away today “after being crushed by a runawaycab on the steps of the Limelight club in New York.”
http://thejewniverse.com/2017/this-jewish-punk-heroine-died-tragically-young/
1989: Today, “Barris Industries, Inc. anAmerican game show production company that was founded by Chuck Barris” “wasrenamed Guber-Peters Entertainment Company”
1991(28th of Elul, 5751): ParashatNitzavim; last Shabbat of 5751
1991: In “Seeking Symmetry Between Palestiniansand Jews” Edward Rothstein reviews “Death of Klinghoffer” an opera thatprovides a rationalization for throwing a wheel-chair bound American Jew offthe deck of cruise ship that had been hijacked by terrorists.
1992: After having ousted the incumbent, BudSelig began serving as “acting commissioner” of Baseball.
1993(21st of Elul, 5753):Seventy-nine-year-old Polish born “Bruce B. Teicholz, who helped save many Jewsfrom the Nazis in World War II and later became a real-estate owner, managerand broker in the New York area, passed away today at his home in Manhattan.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/teicholz-bruce-b
https://jewishjournal.com/news/214477/bruce-teicholz-my-father-always-said-he-wasnt-a-hero/
1994(2nd of Tishrei, 5755): SecondDay of Rosh Hashanah
1994: Eighty-two-year-old mathematician Dr.Abraham Gelbart, “the founding dean of the Belfer Graduate School of Science atYeshiva University passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/12/obituaries/abraham-gelbart-mathematician-82.html
1994: “Mrs. Parker and The Vicious Circle”where in a case of a Jew plays a Jew when Jennifer Jason Leigh stars in therole of Dorothy Parker was released in the United States today by Fine LinePictures.
1996: ABC broadcast the first episode of “BoneChillers,” a television horror series created by Adams based on novelsco-authored by Daniel Weiss.
1997: “In concert with the publication ofLauren Greenfields’s debut monograph, Fast Forward: Growing Up in the Shadow ofHollywood, her first major show, "Fast Forward" had its US debut atthe International Center for Photography (ICP) today
1997: TheNew York Times book section includes reviews of Uncrowned King:The Life of Prince Albert by Jewish author Stanley Weintrauband A Mad, Mad, Mad,Mad World: ALife in Hollywood by Stanley Kramer
1998: Google was co-founded by Larry Page andRussian born Sergey Brin and while they were students at StanfordUmiversity. Sergey Brin was born to a Jewish family inMoscow. He moved to the United States at the age of six when his father took ateaching position at the University of Maryland.
2000: The Academy Award winning documentary“Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport” was released todayin the United States.
2001: Israeli helicopter gunships killed twoPalestinian men in a failed attempt to kill one of their companions, a leaderof the local Palestinian forces who, together with his driver, escaped thestrike with moderate wounds” and a male Israeli soldier was shot dead and anIsraeli woman seriously wounded tonight as they drove on the other, Israeli,side of the boundary” (As reported by James Bennet)
2001: Despite today’s outbreak of violence,“Shimon Peres, the Israeli foreign minister, said tonight after weeks ofuncertainty that he would meet next week with Yasir Arafat, the head of thePalestinian.”
2002(1st of Tishrei, 5763): RoshHashanah
2002(1st of Tishrei,5763): Uziel "Uzi" Gal the German-born-Israeli gun designer best remembered as the designer and namesake of the Uzisubmachine gun passed away.
2003(10th of Elul, 5763): Rockmusician and songwriter Warren Zevon passed away at the age of 56. His father was Jewish and his mother wasMormon.
2003: “And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself”written and co-produced by Larry Gelbart and co-starring Alan Arkin wasreleased in the United States today.
2003: The New York Timesfeatured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewishinterest including Triangle: TheFire That Changed America by David Von Drehle. Woody Allen: A Life in Film byRichard Schickel
2004: It was reported today that an Israeli spysatellite intended to increase the country's surveillance over Iran has landedin the Mediterranean Sea after a rocket malfunction shortly after takeoff,Israeli.
2005(3rd of Elul, 5765): Eighty-one-year-oldBessie Hope Wolf Garber who gained fame as actress and television personality“Hope Garber,” hostess of “At Home with Garber” passed away today.
2005: Haaretzreported that The Jewish Agency has invited university students in New Orleans- Jews and non-Jews alike - to study in Israel. According to the Jewish Agency,some 20 college students have taken an interest in the offer. Tens of thousandsof students are enrolled in universities in New Orleans, 2,000 of them Jewish.The Agency's initiative was welcomed by universities in Israel and will befunded by the United Jewish Communities of North America and the HillelFoundation for Jewish Campus Life. The Jewish Agency put forth the initiativeafter it was discovered that Tulane University, in central New Orleans, wasflooded and closed. The Jewish Agency has committed to partially funding thestudents' flights to Israel, and is also considering covering some of thetuition fees, although the amount of funding has yet to be determined.
2005: “The IDF announced that it planned toadvance its full withdrawal from the Gaza Strip to September 12, pendingcabinet approval.”
2006: Based on complaints from four differentwomen, the police decided that they had enough evidence to indict Moshe Katsav.
2006: According to an article in Haaretz, “Britain’s Jewish communityfaces an unprecedented level of anti-Semitism and feels more threatened thanever, according to the report of the all-party parliamentary inquiry intoanti-Semitism, which is to be released Thursday.
2007: On the first day of his three-day trip toAustria, Pope Benedict XVI “paid solemn tribute to Holocaust victims, extendinghis ‘sadness, repentance and friendship’ to the Jewish People.”
2007: As part of his “private” visit to Israel Prince Edward, who is seventh inline for succession to the British throne attends a Shabbat dinner in Jerusalemwith Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger, as well as prominent members of the Britishcommunity in Israel. During his visit,Prince Edward went to Yad Vashem where a tree has been planted in honor of hisgrandmother Princess Alice of Greece, who was recognized as "RighteousAmong the Nations" for sheltering a Jewish family in her Athens homeduring the Holocaust.
2007: Five Moroccan Jews, three of them women,ran in elections for positions in the Parliament of Morocco.
2007: “Iran’s Unlikely TV Hit” published todaydescribed the popularity of “Zero Degree Turn,” a drama that “centers on a lovestory between an Iranian-Palestinian Muslim man and a French Jewish woman”during the Holocaust.
2008: “The Fly,” an opera in two acts bycomposer Howard Shore was first performed at the Los Angeles Opera Company.
2008:Magen David Adom, Israel's emergency medical response service, opens thisyear's "Lifesaving Olympics" on the top of Masada. The four-dayevent, in which paramedicteamsfrom all over Israel and the worldwill show off their lifesaving skills,will see 180 participantsfromthirteen countries competing.
2008: At Lester J. Morris Hillel at MichiganState University, UJC Network Midwest Cluster Leadership Meeting Hosted by theJewish Federation of Greater Lansing.
2008: First day of Sunday School at TempleJudah in Cedar Rapids, Iowa marking the start of another year of Jewisheducation programs designed to meet the needs of this small, but vibranteastern Iowa Jewish community.
2008: In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, presentation of aconcert titled “Klezmer to Clasiccal.”
2008: The Washington Post book sectionfeatured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or on topics of Jewish interestincluding Hot, Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution -- AndHow It Can Renew America by Thomas Friedman, The Black Hole War: My Battle with Steven Hawking to Make theWorld Safe for Quantum Mechanics by Leonard Susskind and The New Paradigm for FinancialMarkets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means by George Soros.
2008: The NewYork Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of specialinterest to Jewish reader including the recently paperback editions of Mort Zachter’s Dough:A Memoir and Yael Goldstein Love’sThe Passion of Darsky.
2009:Opening night of the Second annual Piyyut Festival in Jerusalem featuringCantor David Riachi, an orchestra and a children's choir.
2009:Opposition leader and Kadima party chief Tzipi Livni blasted the Netanyahugovernment today, calling its policy amateurish and indecisive and denying shehad any intentions of having Kadima join the government.
2009:Today, the Jerusalem Post obtained an exclusive letter from GermanPresident Horst Köhler criticizing the decision to award Germany's highestMedal of Honor - the Federal Cross of Merit - to anti-Zionist attorney FeliciaLanger.
2010:Notyetness, a solo exhibition featuring the work of Israeli-American YaelKanarek is scheduled to open at Bitforms Gallery in New York City.
2010:The DVD of “The Round Up” a French movie “based on the true story of a youngJewish boy that depicts the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup (Rafle du Vel' d'Hiv) -- themass arrest of Jews by French police who were Nazi accomplices in Paris in July1942
2011: The Gilad Hekselman Quartet is scheduledto perform at the Jazz Standard in NYC where they will celebrate the release ofGilad's third album 'Hearts Wide Open' on Le Chant Du Monde label of HarminaMundi
2011: “The Exchange,” an Israeli Hebrewlanguage film “directed by Eran Kolirin” premiered at the Venice InternationalFilm Festival today.
2011: Rabbi Mindy Avra Portnoy is scheduled tolead the opening session of “Not the Matriarchs: Lesser Known Women of theHebrew Bible” at the JCC of Greater Washington.
2011: Day @ the J is scheduled to feature a screening of thedocumentary "Yiddish Theater: A Love Story," a hot lunch, and anIsraeli art exhibit, Expressions Fine Art at the Jewish Community Center of GreaterWashington, in Rockville, MD.
2011: Israeli settlers in the West Bankvandalized an Israel Defense Forces base today, carrying out a "pricetag" operation against the army for the first time since adopting thepolicy in recent years.
2011: Today, Israel Police began dismantlingsocial protest encampment sites in Tel Aviv and Holon, less than two monthsafter activists set up the tent cities to demonstrate against the high cost ofliving in the country
2011(8th of Elul, 5771): Eighty-four-year-oldWilliam Lee Frost, the Jewish philanthropist who had succeeded his father aPresident of the Jewish Telegraphic agency passed away today. (As reported byJTA)
http://forward.com/articles/142577/william-lee-frost-former-jta-leader-dies-at-/
2011(8th of Elul, 5771): DanielRogov, Israel's leading food and wine critic and veteran writer for Haaretz,passed away today. Rogov, who wrote under a pseudonym, was born in the U.S.A.He finished his high school studies at the age of 15 and flew to Paris, wherehe began his journalistic career by writing articles about food and wine forAmerican magazines and newspapers. He later widened his repertoire and wrotefor publications in France and Switzerland and appeared on television programsas an expert in the subject. He moved to Israel in 1978 and began writing forthe Jerusalem Post, quickly establishing himself as the leading wineexpert in Israel. He started writing for Haaretz in 1984. Rogov was the authorof "The Rogov Guide to Israeli Wine,” an annual study of the year's bestvintner selections. Rogov announced he was leaving Haaretz just three daysbefore his death, due to his deteriorating health. A month earlier, on August 29, top members ofthe wine industry organized an evening in his honor at the Dan Panorama hotelin Tel Aviv. Rogov contributed to Johnson's Pocket Wine Book, and the TomStevenson wine report, and managed the Wine Lovers Page website. Rogov prepareda goodbye message for members of the website’s forum. “When it comes to foodand wine... I wrote about them throughout the years out of a sense of love anddevotion, both emotional and intellectual," he wrote in the message. As I hope I showed, food and wine for me arenot just things that go into our bodies. They are a reflection of ouranthropology, our history, our psychology, out social needs, and of course,enjoyment.” “Like all critics who take themselves seriously, I greatly enjoyedsharing my thoughts, and in a certain sense I consider myself as the UmbertoEco of wine and culinary criticism, my writing reflects both and accurate andpost-modern, that leaves the intelligent reader to come to his own conclusions.At the end of the day, this was a good life.”
2011: commissioner Insp.-Gen. Yochanan Daninohas set up a special task force to tackle far right elements in the West Banksuspected of being behind a string of recent attacks launched as a response todemolitions of illegal outposts. The task force will be made up of officersfrom the elite national Lahav 433 unit and Judea and Samaria police district,police said today.
2012: A symposium sponsored by the Library ofCongress entitled “The Stations That Spoke Your Language: Radio and the YiddishAmerican Cultural Renaissance” is scheduled to come to an end today.
2012: Elad Lassry’s Untitled (Presence) isscheduled to open at the Kitchen in NYC.
2012(20th of Elul): Yahrtzeit of Dr.Jacob Levin – a great man who lives on in so many ways.
2012: Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Stripfired two Kassam rockets into the western Negev early today.. (As reported byTimes of Israel Staff)
2012: Defense Minister Ehud Barak said that Israelmay reoccupy parts of the Gaza strip in the future, while speaking at a meetingof the Fisher Institute on "Operation Cast Lead" today.
2013:Thanks to change in policy by Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, electionsare scheduled to take place instead of on Yom Kippur as originally planned byhis predecessor Julia Gillard.
2013(3rdof Tishrei, 5774): In Cedar Rapids, guest Chazan Ilan Caplan leads traditionalShabbat Shuvah services at Temple Judah.
2013(3rdof Tishrei, 5774): Ninety-four-year-old cellist Fred Katz passed away today.(As reported by Margalit Fox)
2013:As Israelis and Jews around the world wait for “the next shoe to drop” Egyptiantroops move into the Sinai “to clean out insurgents,” CNN released videosshowing victims of Syrian gas attacks and supporters of the Assad regimethreaten all kinds of retaliation ranging from terrorism to cyber-attacks aimedat disrupting commerce and industry around the world.
2013:Israel drew 1-1 with Azerbaijan tonight in a disappointing performance whichmade the team’s World Cup 2014 hopes a very long shot.
2014:The New York Times published reviewsof books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readersincluding 10:04 by Ben Lerner and Eichmann Before Jerusalem: TheUnexamined Life of a Mass Murderer by Bettina Stangneth.
2014: Zvi Eckstein is scheduled to speak on “TheChosen Few: How Education Shaped Jewish History” at the Center for JewishHistory
2014:As part of events marking the 50th anniversary of the premiere of“Fiddler on the Roof” the Slidell (LA) Little Theatre is scheduled to presentits final performance of the Broadway hit. (As reported by the Crescent CityJewish News, the source of information about Jewish communities along thebayous and Gulf Coast)
2014:The Chicago Bears, led by Coach Mark Tressman, the only Jewish NFL coach openedtheir seasons by losing to the lowly Buffalo Bills.
2014:Bruce Levenson, the owner of the Atlanta Hawks announced today he will sell hiscontrolling interest in the National Basketball Association franchise becauseof racially insensitive remarks he made, in an echo of a scandal involving theformer owner of the Los Angeles Clippers NBA team.”
2014:The memorial service for comedian Joan Rivers took place this afternoon atTemple Emnanu-El in New York City.
2014:“Rioters, angry over the today’s death of an East Jerusalem teenager fromwounds sustained a week earlier after being shot by Israeli police during ariot threw rocks and attacked a gas station convenience store near the seamline between the East and West sides of Jerusalem Sunday night, as the capitalsaw the worst spate of violence since the killing of an East Jerusalem teen inJune.” (Times of Israel)
2014:The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education is scheduled tosponsor “a Sephardic-focused walking tour of South Portland, including a behindthe scenes look at Portland’s Sephardic synagogue, Congregation Ahavath Achim.”
2014:Robyn Helzner, whose underground performances in the Soviet Union inspiredcountless Jews and refuseniks is scheduled to perform at the ceremonies markingthe opening of “Voices of the Vigil: Documenting the Soviet Jewry Movement.”
2014:In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the Creative Corridor’s cultural season opens withBrucemorchestra presenting an “American Salute” featuring the music of thoseall-American composers, George Gershwin, Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein.
2015:In Leeds, UK, Michael Meadowcroft is scheduled to deliver a lecture about thelife of Joshua Samuel Walsh, the solicitor who was Lord Mayor of Leeds from1966 to 1967.
2015:At the Neue Galerie, the exhibition “"Gustav Klimt and Adele Bloch-Bauer:The Woman in Gold" is scheduled to come to a close but the Portrait ofAdele Bloch-Bauer I by Gustav Klimit is on permanent view at the gallery.
http://neuegalerie.org/content/gustav-klimt-and-adele-bloch-bauer-woman-gold
2015:At the University of Michigan, Janice Bluestein Longone is scheduled “kick-offher last show a look at the evolution of menus and guidebooks over the decades,titled “Dining Out: Menus, Chefs, Restaurants, Hotels and Guidebooks.”
http://forward.com/culture/213166/cookbook-collector-savors-recipes-for-living-in-mi/
2015:In Metairie, a suburb of New Orleans, TheCrescent Jewish News in partnership with Torah Academy is scheduled topresent the 1st Original Red Beans & Rice Cook-Off.
http://www.crescentcityjewishnews.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Red-Beans-Rules_Final1.pdf
http://www.crescentcityjewishnews.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/cookoff1.jpg
2016:Dr. Steven Feller, the Chair of the Physics Department at Coe College isscheduled to be awarded today with one of three very special, and highlyprestigious, Centenary Fellowships, which have been created to celebrate the100th Anniversary of the founding of the Society of Glass Technology (SGT) atthe SGT100 Centenary Conference which is being held in conjunction with thebiennial European Society of Glass Conference in Sheffield, UK.
2016:“Jackie,” a biopic about the former first lady written by Noah Oppenheim andstarring Natalie Portman premiered at the Venice International Film Festival.
2016:“The Jewish Book Council, Met Council, and the Yeshiva University Museum at theCenter for Jewish History” are scheduled to host “The Newest Dish on JewishFish” – a panel “discussion on the culinary histories of the most"acquired tastes" of Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine” followed by a guidedtour of the Yeshiva University Museum’s feature exhibit, “Nourishing Tradition:Jewish Cookbooks and the Stories They Tell.”
2016:As Border Police and Israel Police officers were leaving the Shuafatneighborhood in Jerusalem today, a car began to speed up in the officers'direction in an attempt to hit them. When the driver ignored warnings andcontinued driving at high speed toward the group, the officers fired, killinghim
2016:Baxter St at CCNY is scheduled to host the opening reception for Polaris anexhibition that includes the works of Israeli born artist Ofri Cnanni.
2016:Michael Dell’s “Dell Inc. completed the acquisition of EMC Corporation, which“at $67 billion has been labeled the highest-valued tech acquisition inhistory.”
2017(16thof Elul, 5777): Ninety-four-year-old Buffalo born illustrator Jerimiah Goodmanpassed away today
2017:Rabbi Zamir Cohen and Rabbi Charlie Harary are scheduled to speak in Great Neckat today’s Hidabroot Event.
2017:The Jerusalem Sacred Music Festival is scheduled to begin today.
2017:In Memphis, TN, Temple Israel launches its latest museum exhibit, “CinemaJudaica: The War Years, 1939-1949.”
2017:Today “nearly 10 years to the day after Israel allegedly destroyed a Syriannuclear reactor,” the IAF “allegedly carried out an airstrike against a Syrianadvanced weapons development facitly” known as the Scientific Studies andResearch Center. (As reported by Judah Ari Gross)
2017:The Philos Project and American Sephardi Federation are scheduled to host“Nosotros: Strengthening Bonds Between Jewish and Latino Communities,” “an artexhibit featuring the work of three renowned Latino artists--Juan Bravo(Dominican Republic), Angel Urrely (Cuba), and Carlos Ayala (Puerto Rico)--as asymbolic recognition and “step forward” to improving Jewish-Latino relations.Each piece reflects the shared roots of Jewish and Latino communities andexpresses hope for a more positive future from the perspective of eachrespective artist
2018:Beit Avi Chai is scheduled to host “Kabbalat Shabbat Elul” with a theme ofanticipating the New Year with “forigiveness, hope and prayer for new andblessed beginnings.”
2018:The Jerusalem Centre for the Performing Arts is scheduled to host a screeningof “Transit,” a tale of about escaping from the Nazis with a strange, romantictwist.
2018:The Meteor Musical Festival is scheduled to continue for a second day in theUpper Galilee.
https://meteorfestival.com/programme/
2018(27thof Elul, 5778): Because of a quirk in the calendar, Shabbat falling on the 28thof Elul, the Shofar is blown for the last time in 5778.
2019(7thof Elul, 5779): Parashat Shoftim;
2019:“Jerusalem International Connection Israel” is scheduled to sponsor a “Couplesand Families Third Meal Picnic at Beit Elisheva.”
2019:In Columbus, OH, in addition to its other Shabbat observances, CongregationTifereth Israel is scheduled to a Religious School Retreat for Grades 4 – 8.
2019:This evening, JCC of Northern Virginia is scheduled to host comedian MikeCapozzola.
2019:In Jerusalem, the Train Theater is scheduled to present “Dragon – There Is NoSuch Thing.”
2019:Fortieth anniversary of Leo Leonard (born Maxwell Lefkowitz) delivering the“first words” on “Sports Center’s inaugural broadcast” which “launched…ESPN onits path to becoming a sports powerhouse.”
2020:The Streicker Center is scheduled to host the first session of its Virtual HighHoliday School with Melissa Clark who shows how to plan and organize yourfestive meal.
2020:The Virtual Sephardic Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of“Leona.”
2020:“Outside the Box Encounters” Tours is scheduled to begin its trip into “the Jewish-Orthodoxreality in Jerusalem at “Davidka Square with a short talk about the JewishOrthodox world.
2020:As Labor Day is celebrated in the United States, Jews, who are commanded toLabor for six days before they can rest, might want to contemplate theirchanging views and roles in the history of the American Labor Movement (Lest weforget, in the garment industry it was often Jewish owners versus Jewishsweatshop workers
http://www.csjo.org/resources/essays/jews-in-the-american-labor-movement/
https://www.marxists.org/subject/jewish/herberg-labor.pdf
http://www.jewishlaborcommittee.org/2006/01/readings_on_the_american_jewis_1.html
2020:Proving that Jewish study time never takes “a holiday” Temple Sinai ofMarblehead is scheduled to host the first session of “Rabbi David’s Torah StudyClass.”
2020:Lost Tribe Esports which serves Jewish communities during the coronaviruscrisis and beyond, offering online esports and social opportunities for teensand young adults, in partnership with a wide range of Jewish organizations isscheduled to an online Madden 20 Xbox 1 Online Tournament
2020:The 29th Annual Silicon Valley Jewish Film Festival is scheduled tocome to an end with a “2016 documentary that includes foot of old interviewswith David Ben Gurion.’
2020:In what some would say is a reminder of the power of Haredi political leaders,Israelis are scheduled to adhere to “a night-time curfew for 40 settlements, cities and communities with a highinfection rate instead of a full lockdown, following pressure fromultra-Orthodox leaders.”
2021(1st of Tishrei, 5782) RoshHashanah;
2021:YJP Boston is scheduled to host a Rosh Hashanah New Year’s Banquet, thatincudes “a gourmet brisket dinner, imported wines and traditional Rosh Hashanahdelicacies” at the Chai Center in Brookline.
2021:As Israelis celebrate Rosh Hashanah, they have additional reason to celebratebecause, according to a health officials report issued yesterday, “thecountry’s coronavirus infection rate has hit a two-week low.” (As reported byYaron Drukman)
2021:Because the pro—pandemic forces have made it possible for the virus to mutateand spread while rendering the vaccines less effective JTA's partner site MyJewish Learning has compiled a list of free Rosh Hashanah services online,covering all U.S. time zones so you can find a service that meets your needs.https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/where-to-stream-rosh-hashanah-services/?utm_source=MJL_Maropost&utm_campaign=70FM_Events&utm_medium=email
2022: Hillel of SiliconValley, Jewish Silicon Valley, Jewish High Tech Community, Jewish CommunityFederation and Oshman Family JCC are scheduled to present Dermatologist-entrepreneurDr. Kathy Fields giving a talk titled “Driven to Fulfillment: A Plan for Actionin the Quest for Purpose.”
2022: The Center ForJewish History is scheduled to present a discussion of Jewish Noir II: Tales of Crime and Other Dark Deeds, “a new collection of short stories by Jewish and non-Jewishwriters, including numerous award-winning authors, exploring the light and darksides of religion and culture, examining such issues as the enduring legacy ofnegative stereotypes amid rising anti-Semitism, prejudice, assimilation, andquestions of regional, national, and ethnic identity.”
2022: In Florida, TempleJudea is scheduled to host a Lunch and Learn with Rabbi Feivel Strausslecturing on “Albert Einstein – Get to the Jewish Innovators.”
2022: Congregation BethIsrael of Merrimack Valley is scheduled to host “Open House Week.”
2023: The Laurie M.Tisch Gallery of the Marlene Meyerson JCC is scheduled to host the openingreception of Tales and Textiles, “two exhibits from the Contemporary Art CenterRamle curated by Dr. Smadar Sheffi.
2023: LockdownUniversity is scheduled to host a lecture by Trudy Gold on an English lovetriangle “Herbert Asquith, Edwin Montague and Venetia Stanley.”
2023: The Center forJewish History is scheduled to present a “CJH book discussion, led by LaurenGilbert, Director of Public Services at the Center for Jewish History” whichwill feature a discussion of Kantika, a dazzling, multigenerational Sephardic saga that spanscontinents, telling a story of endurance and reinvention based on the truehistory of author Elizabeth Graver's own family.
2024: In Columbus, OH atTefireth Israel, Rabbi Hillel Skolnik is scheduled to lead the first session inthe High Holiday Learning Series.
2023: JDC Archives isscheduled a webinar lecture by Yair Wallach on “Rethinking Ashkenazi History inthe Modern Middle East: Early 20th Century Egypt and Palestine.”
2023: The ASF’sInstitute of Jewish Experience is scheduled to present “Sefarad,” “a film aboutthe revival and rebirth of a Jewish community…”
2024: Hundreds of peopleare expected at an event to mark 11 months to the day since the Nova musicfestival massacre which will take place this afternoon outside the Israeliembassy in central London and will payspecial tribute to Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Eden Yerushalmi, Ori Danino, AlexLobanov and Almog Sarusi, taken hostage from Nova and executed by Hamas lastweek.
2024: This evening Israelisprepare to deal with another round of weekly Saturday night protests.
2024: Agnon House is scheduledto host a discussion led by Ofir Lifshitzwhich willdeal with the Jewish, religious and spiritual renewal of the city, thededication of the synagogue, the religious customs of the city's residents, andvarious small anecdotes that Agnon places under the titles "Messiah","Elijah's Throne" and "The Polished Chandelier".
2024: Temple Judea isfortunate to have Rabbi Feivel Strauss lead today’s scheduled Torah studysession
2024: LockdownUniversity is scheduled to host a lecture by David Peimer on The GreatDictators: Spielberg, Part 1.”
2024(4th of Elul, 5784):Parashat Shoftim (Judges)
16:18-21-9 Devarim(Deuteronomy) For more see https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
2024:As September 7th begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism thathas included Hamas supporters calling for Zionist passengers on a New Yorksubway to raise their hands, sweeps the United States and the Hamas heldhostages begin day 337 in captivity.(Editor’s note: this situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so weare just providing a snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time)
