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81: Domitian, the third of the Falvians, became Emperor of theRoman Empire upon the death of his brother Titus. Like his father Vespasian and his brotherTitus, Domitian took great deal of pride in the victory over Judea. On the way back from Jerusalem after the war,Titus and Domitian celebrated the latter’s birthday with a slaughter of Jews atCaesarea. Domitian’s treatment of the Jews was actually harsher than that ofhis two predecessors. “He strictlyenforced the special taxes” imposed on the Jews “and the ban on conversion toJudaism in Rome. According to the Romanhistorian Seutonius “In Domitian’s days,the Jews’ tax was collected with the utmost rigor. Thos who observed Jewish customs withoutadmitting it, and those who concealed their Jewish origin in order to evade thetax imposed on their nation, were denounced to the imperial treasure. I still remember…how the procurator, in thepresence of a crowd of assistants, inspected an old man of ninety to seewhether he was circumcised.” Accordingto “another Roman historian, in the year 95, Domitian ordered the execution ofFlavius Clemens, a nobleman closely related to the imperial house, forJudaizing tendencies and banished his wife Dimitilla.
407: St. John Chrysostom, the Archbishop of Constantinople passedaway today. Referred to in Catholic literature as "the man with the goldentongue" he was a virulent hater of Judaism, who disseminated his viewsthrough violent writings and preachings. He considered it meritorious to killJews
775: Byzantine Emperor Constantine V passed away. During his reign Constantine V modified aByzantine law, dating from the tenth century that “demands that a Jew whenswearing shall have a girdle of thorns around his loins, stand in water, andswear by "Barase Baraa" (Beresh*t Bara), so that if he speaks untruththe earth may swallow him as it did Dathan and Abiram.”
786:Harun al-Rashid becomes the Abbasid caliph upon the death of his brotheral-Hadi. During his Caliphate, al-Rashid honored Charlemagne’s request to sendJewish teachers to establish a Jewish Middle class in Europe. These came withRabbi Machir who was given by Charlemagne a Princedom in Narbonne and was knownas King of the Jews. In 807, al-Rashid forced Jews to wear yellow badges andChristians to wear blue badges.
1131: In what may be a caseof usurpation to those who believe in the David Kingship, the Crusaders makeCount Fulk V of Anjou the Third King of Jerusalem.
1214: Albert Avogadro, Italian patriarch of Jerusalem passed away.While in this position, he wrote “a formula of life” for the Carmelites attheir request. The roots of theCarmelites “are traced to the 12th century (after the third crusade) when agroup of hermits began practicing their Christianity on Mt. Carmel by followingthe ways of the Prophet Elijah. They lived in caves on Mt, Carmel for about acentury, when they were forced to leave, in 1235, due to persecution by theSaracens. At the time they did not view anyone in particular as their founderbut saw Elijah as one of the founders of monastic life.” [Editor’s note – This is yet another exampleof how Judaism and Eretz Israel impacted those who lived in the land, even ifthey were not Jewish.]
1427(13th of Elul, 5187): Yaakov benMoshe Levi Moelin, known as the Maharil (Our Teach, the Rabbi, Yaakov Levi) whowas the son and pupil Moshe Levi Moelin the Rabbi of Mainz passed away today inWorms.
1560:Sixty-seven-year-old AntonFugger, German merchant who hired Hans Dernschwam the German traveler whodescribed the condition of the Jews in the Ottoman Empire including those “inConstantinople” where “the Jews were thick ‘as ants’” and “there were forty-twoor more synagogues divided by nationality” serving a community that numbered“over Jewish men alone” passed away today.
1614:Mass murder of Jews in Salonica took place while they were killed whilereturning from the Dolia market.
1615:Today, Shabbtai Zvi became a Muslim when he was brought before the Sultan wheretook off his Jewish head dress, replacing it with Turkish turban. Therepercussions of his conversion sent shock waves throughout the Jewish worldand were to be felt for many years. Some of his followers claimed that itwasn't really him who converted; others professed that this was the proof thathe was the Messiah by going to Islam to redeem them as well. The Sultan, awarethat killing Shabbtai Zvi would have made him a martyr, had"convinced" Shabbtai that converting to Islam was in his bestinterest.
1666:After having considered the choice between death or converting, Shabbetai Zviappeared before the Sultan and put on a Turkish turban; a sign of hisacceptance of Islam.
1741:Handel began working on his three-act oratorio Samson, one of his manybiblical-based works
1763:Birthdate of Moses ben Samuel Schreiber, the native of Frankfort also known asMoses Sofer. (Editor’s note – there seems to be some confusion about thebirthdate. We defer to the JewishEncyclopedia)
http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Sofer_Mosheh
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/chasamsofer.html
1752:The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, skipping eleven days (theprevious day was September 2). While this change may have been good science itcreates a level of uncertainty when converting dates from the Jewish calendarto the secular calendar
1755(9thof Tishrei, 5516): Erev Yom Kippur
1755:The affair known as “The Battle of Balcony” began tonight at CongregationShearith Israel in New York.
1762:Nathan Barnett and his wife gave birth to Love Barnett,
1762:Birthdate of Frankfort, Germany native Rabbi Moshe Sofer.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/rabbi-moshe-sofer-chasam-sofer
1765(28thof Elul, 5525): Parashat Nitzavim chanted as Philadelphians prepare to takeaction protesting the Stamp Act.
1768(3rdof Tishrei, 5529): Tzom Gedaliah
1771(6thof Tishrei, 5532): Parshat Vayeilech; Shabbat Shuvah
1774(9thof Tishrei, 5535): Erev of Yom Kippur; Kol Nidre chanted for the last time whenthe thirteen colonies were still under the rule of King George III.
1776(1stof Tishrei, 5537): American Jews celebrate their first Rosh Hashanah (5537) ascitizens of the United States following the signing of the Declaration ofIndependence from Great Britain.
1780:General Francis Marion’s American troops defeated the British at the Battle ofBlack Mingo, the creek that gave them to the town of Black Mingo, SC which iswhere Sarah Judah and Lizer Joseph gave birth to Eleanor Joseph, the wife ofIsrael Solomons with whom she had nine children.
1785(10thof Tishrei, 5546): Yom Kippur
1793(8thof Tishrei, 5554): Shabbat Shuva observed for the first time after the“National Convention began the 10-month reign of terror” in France.
1795(1stof Tishrei, 5556): Rosh Hashanah observed as the Dutch prepare to surrenderCape Town to the British
1799(14thof Elul,5559): Parashat Ki Teitzei change for the last time in the 18thcentury
1804(9thof Tishrei, 5565): Kol Nidre; erevShabbat and erev Yom Kippur observed on the same day that Lewis and Clarkentered into their journals, “the first scientific description of thepronghorn, which they continued to refer to as a goat.”
1805(20thof Elul, 5565): Parashat Ki Tavo; Leil Selichot observed as Lord Nelson setsail from Portsmouth aboard HMS Victory and his date with destiny at the Battleof Trafalgar.
1811(25thof Elul, 5571): Parashat Nitzavim-Vayeilech; Selichot
1812:Birthdate of Samuel Bernheimer, the husband of Henrietta Cahn and the father ofMarcus Bernheimer.
1812:As French grenadiers enter Moscow, “The 1812 Fire of Moscow” begins as soon asRussian troops leave the city. The fire was part of a scorched earth policythat left nothing for the conquering French armies. A month later, the French would begin theirlong, disastrous retreat that would reduce the army from 400,000 to 40,000.Chasidic Jewry reacted differently to Napoleon’s invasion and subsequentretreat from Russia. “During the Frenchinvasion of Russia, while many Polish Hasidic leaders supported Napoleon orremained quiet about their support, Rabbi Shneur Zalman openly and vigorouslysupported the Tsar. While fleeing from the advancing French army he wrote aletter explaining his opposition to Napoleon to a friend, Rabbi Moshe Meizeles:“Should Napoleon be victorious, wealth among the Jews will be abundant. . .butthe hearts of Israel will be separated and distant from their father in heaven.But if our master Alexander will triumph, though poverty will be abundant. . .the heart of Israel will be bound and joined with their father in heaven. . .And for God's sake: Burn this letter. ” Some Polish Hasidic leaders supportedNapoleon. Some argue that Rabbi Shneur Zalman's opposition stemmed fromNapoleon's attempts to arouse a messianic view of himself in Jews, opening thegates of the ghettos and emancipating their residents as he conquered. Heestablished an ersatz Sanhedrin, recruiting Jews to his ranks, and spreadingrumors about his conquest of the Holy Land to make Jews subversive for his ownends.[10] Thus, his opposition was based on a practical fear of Jews turning tothe false messianism of Napoleon as he saw it. It should be noted that RabbiYisroel Hopsztajn of Kozienice, another Hasidic leader, also consideredNapoleon a menace to the Jewish people. However, Rabbi Menachem MendelSchneerson identifies Rabbi Yisrael as the Chasidic leader who preferred thatNapoleon defeat the Czar.
1814(29thof Elul, 5774): Erev Rosh Hashana
1814:Birthdate of Samuel Löw Brill the Hungarian Rabbi and Talmudic Scholar who waseducated by his father, Azriel Brill.
1814:Birthdate Albert Cohn, the native of Hungary who found fame and fortune inFrance, where among other things he served as the tutor for three of childrenof Baron James de Rothschild.
1814:As the sun rose over the Baltimore harbor, the defenders of Ft. McHenry,including at least 30 Jewish soldiers and volunteers watched as a giantAmerican flag was raised a sign of American victory to which the Britishresponded by sailing down Chesapeake Bay for New Orleans and an even moredecisive defeat in which Jews including Judah Touro and Barataria Pirates wouldplay a role.
1816(21stof Elul, 5576): Parashat Ki Tavo; Leil Selichot observed on the same day thatrepresentatives of the Cherokee National and “Major General Andrew Jackson,General David Meriwether and Jesse Franklin, Esq., who served as agents of theUnited States in the capacity of "commissioners plenipotentiary"negotiated what became known as “the treaty of Chickasaw Council House.”
1823(9thof Tishrei, 5584): Kol Nidre
1825(2ndof Tishrei, 5586): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah is observed for the first timeduring the presidency of John Q Adams.
1828(6thof Tishrei, 5589): Fifty-nine-year-old Israel Jacobson, the German businessmanand philanthropist who is one of the founders of Reform Judaism, passed awaytoday.
1829:The Ottoman Empire signs the Treaty of Adrianople with Russia, thus ending theRusso-Turkish War. This was but one of aseries of wars in which the European powers would nibble away at the power andterritories of the Ottoman. The lastgreat nibble would be World War I, which when it ended, would find Palestine inthe hands of the British, the authors of the Balfour Declaration.
1832:Judge David Naar, the St. Thomas born son of Sarah and Chazan Joshua Naar andhis wife Sarah Cohen gave birth to Eleanor Naar.
1834:In New York City, Emanuel Martinez Henriques, the Jamaica born son of Sarah andJacob Bueno Henriques and his wife Sarah Henriques gave birth to David MendezHenriques
1835:In London, Maria and Hyman Cohen gave birth to Matilda Cohen.
1835:Birthdate of Posen native Abraham Slimmer who came to the United States at theage of 15 and became a successful Iowa businessman before passing away inDubuque, Iowa, the birthplace of Deb Levin of blessed memory.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9F0DE0D9113BE733A25750C1A9619C946397D6CF
http://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?title=SLIMMER,_Abraham
1836(3rdof Tishrei, 5596): Tzom Gedaliah was observed for the last time during thePresidency of Andrew Jackson.
1842(10thof Tishrei, 5603): Yom Kippur
1844(1stof Tishrei, 5605): Rosh Hashanah
1846:Salomon and Roeschen Baruch gave birth to Jakob Baruch the “husband of IdaEdelchen Baruch and father of Julius Baruch; Rosa Baruch; Siegfried Baruch;Regine Baumgarten; Siegmund Salomon Baruch; Minna Falk; Else Daltrop and BerthaWallach.”
1847:During the Mexican-American War, General Winfield Scott occupies Mexico Cityfollowing the United States victory at TheBattle of Chapultepec. During The Battle of Chapultepec, Dr. David Camden deLeon of South Carolina, known as the “fighting doctor” because of hiswillingness to put down his scalpel and pick up a sword when the need arose,led two cavalry charges against Mexican positions after the line officers incommand of the unit had either been killed or wounded. “Special note was takenof his gallantry by the U.S. Congress.”South Carolina’s famous fighting Jewish physician had fought against theSeminoles during the 1830’s and would become Surgeon General in the Confederatearmy.
1850(8th of Tishrei, 5611): ParashatHa’Azinu, Shabbat Shuva
1850(8th of Tishrei, 5611): Thirty-yearold Lt. Solomon Harby, the Charleston, SC born son of Isaac and Rachel MordecaiHarby passed away today after which he was interred in the Kahal Kadosh BethElohim Cemetery.
1852(1st of Tishrei, 5613): Rosh Hashanah
1853: Mier Danziger married Catherine Jacobs at theGreat Synagogue today.
1854: Eleven-year-old Jewish-American manufacturerand financier Gustavus Sidenberg, the Silesia born son of Wilhelm and HenriettaBruck Sidenberg “arrived in New York City on the shipElizabethwithhis mother, three younger brothers, a sister, and perhaps other relatives…”
1854: In San Francisco, CA, Dr. Julius Eckmannofficiated at the dedication of Congregation Emanu-El’s new synagogue. Eckmann was the congregation’s firstRabbi. The building cost $35,000.
1855(2nd of Tishrei, 5616): Second Day ofRosh Hashanah
1856: Dr. Sternberger officiated at the wedding ofMr. and Mrs. Louis Fauerbach who had come to Germany as children and who wouldserve as Superintendent and Matron of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian SocietyOrphan Asylum for 17 years.
1859: Three days after he had passed away, Frankfurtborn English merchant Sigismund Stiebel, the son of Isaac Daniel Stiebel andthe former Vogel Heinemann, and the husband of the former Eliza Jacob Mocattawith whom he had four children was buried today at the Balls Pond Road JewishCemetery.
1860: Birthdate of Jules Guérin, the Frenchjournalist who founded The Antisemitic League of France (Ligueantisémitique de France) whichplayed an active role in whipping up anti-Jewish sentiment during the DreyfusAffair.
1861(10th of Tishrei, 5622): During the first year of the Civil War, Jewsin the North and South observe Yom Kippur.
1861(10th of Tishrei, 5622):Seventy-three-year-old Alexander Marks, the Charleston born son of Frances andHumphrey Mordecai Marks and the husband of Esther “Hetty” Hart Marks whom hemarried I 1816 passed away today in New Orleans after which she was buried in theDispersed of Judah Cemetery.
1862(19th of Elul, 5622): During theCivil War, Philadelphian Jacob Miller was killed at the Battle of SouthMountain while serving with company A of the 45th Regiment.
1862: In New York, Rachel and Bernhard Sondheim gavebirth to CCNY graduate and banker Phineas Sondheim, a partner in the bankingfirm of Heidelbach Ickelheimer and President of Harmonie Club was the husbandof the former Clara Renskorg and a member of Temple Emanu-El.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1943/07/24/85111880.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1863:In Piemonte, Italy, Giuseppe and Annetta Luzzati gave birth to Ida Dolce FoaGhiron
1863(1st of Tishrei, 5624): Rosh Hashanah
1863: “Rosh Hashanah: The Jewish New Year’s Day”published today reported that
“InLeviticus xxiii, 23, 24 and 25, is found the following command:
‘23.And the Lord spake unto Moses saying,
24.Speak unto the children of Israel, saying. In the seventh month, in the firstday of the month, shall ye have a Sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, aholy convocation.
25.Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made byfire unto the Lord.’ Such is the ancient authority, direct from God, enjoiningthe commemoration of the great Jewish festival of Rosh Hashanah, whichcommenced last evening.
Theoccasion is regarded by all good Israelites throughout the world as one of themost solemn and important character, and will be celebrated by the Jews of thiscommunity with all the services and ceremonies of the olden time. In order tothrow some light upon the peculiar situation of this holiday in reference tothe division of the Christian year, it may be well to recall the fact that theJews, although like ourselves making it consist of twelve months, gave themtwenty-nine and thirty days alternately. In their leap year, an entire monthintervened between the sixth and seventh months, and consequently in the briefperiod of nineteen years they found no less than seven leap years, to wit, thethird, sixth, eighth, eleventh, fourteenth, seventeenth and nineteenth. Bythese periods of nineteen years and seven leap years, they counted, the latternumber being greatly venerated by their race. The beginning of the year, orNew-Year's Day, was set for the first new moon after the recurrence of theAutumnal Equinox, or in the month which, as its name designates, was also theseventh mouth of the year under the old Latin arrangement -- the Tishri of theJews. The day itself is made the commencement of the year, as it is reputed tobe the anniversary of Adam's birth, and the first occupancy of our planet byman. With these majestic attributes is, also, united the characteristic that itis the Jom Haddin, or day of God's judgment upon the sins committed during thethe past year, which it not absolutely atoned for are carried onward to thegreat account. It may, therefore, be imagined with what interest the return ofthis great day which marks so decisive an epoch in his individual destiny, andin the history of his race is regarded by every orthodox Israelite. In thisCity preparations have been in progress for a week past, and the varioussynagogues (some twenty in number) have all been purified and decorated for thefestival. They were, yesterday evening, thrown open for the preliminaryservices, Rabbi Raphall officiating in the Green-street, and the Rabbi J.J.Lyons in the Nineteenth-street edifice.
InNumbers, xxix, 1, the offerings of the "Feast of Trumpets" -- theother name of New-Year's Day -- are prescribed:
"1.And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye shall have a holyconvocation; ye shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing the trumpetsunto you.
2.And ye shall offer a burnt-offering for a sweet savor unto the Lord, one youngbullock, one ram and seven lambs of the first year, without blemish.
3.And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil, three-tenth dealsfor a bullock and two-tenth deals for a ram.
4.And one-tenth deal for one lamb, throughout the seven lambs.
5.And one kid of the goats for a sin offering to make an atonement for you."
Thesesacrifices are to be independent of the ordinary ones for the day and themonth.
Thepresent anniversary is, according to the Jewish calendar, the five thousand sixhundred and twenty-fourth since the creation of the world, and owing to therapid changes going on in Jewish society, and the many removals and deathsoccasioned among them in this country, by the existing war, will be observedwith peculiar formality and impressiveness. The services of last evening werenoteworthy chiefly for the solemn manner in which the Rabbin alluded to thewaning orthodoxy of many worldly members of their synagogues, and remindedtheir hearers that, if the season should pass unimproved, the Angel of Death,preventing the enjoyment of another, may bear away with him to the dread recorda list of sins beyond atonement. To-day and to-morrow, all but absolutelyindispensable labor will cease in every good family of Israelites, and at noonupon each day the great Shofar or trumpet, will be blown in the synagogues amidthe reverence of thousands of the Faithful.On Wednesday, the 23d inst., or tenth day of the seventh month, willoccur the Yom Kippur or "Day of Atonement" the most solemn andimportant of all the Jewish fasts. Upon the approach of that impressive periodwe may have occasion to allude to it at greater length. No more curious andinstructive spectacle lies within the observation of our readers, than thesolemnizing in our midst, and according to the ancient ritual, of these hoaryanniversaries by the ancient people.”
1864:In Paris, France, banker Alphonse James de Rothschild and Leonora de Rothschilddaughter of Lionel de Rothschild gave birth to their daughter Charlotte knownas Beatrice who became Béatrice Ephrussi de Rothschild when she “married theRussian-born banker Maurice Ephrussi.
1864:One day after she had passed away, Isabelle Woolf, “the daughter of Annie andIsrael Edward Woolf” was buried today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1864: Today inPhiladelphia, 27-year-old silk merchant William Bower Hackenberg, the son ofJudah Lazarus Hacekbenberg and Maria (Allen) Hackenberg, the founder of W.B.Hackenburg and Company who “is a supporter of almost every Jewish charityin Philadelphia” married “Adeline Schoneman, the daughter of Joseph and ClaraSchoneman.”
1866(5thof Tishrei, 5627): Sixty-three-year-old French novelist and playwright LéonGozlan passed away in Paris.
1867:In Lithuania, Gitte Sarah Meshumami and Zundel Bloch gave birth to Rabbi ChaimIsaac Bloch, the husband of Chana Schmidt, who arrived at New York City in 1923where her served as the Rabbi of Congregation Agudath Shalem of Jersey City,NJ.
1868:In San Francisco, CA, Leopold Rosenbaum and Sabine Dreschfeld gave birth toUniversity of Virginia Law School graduate Oscar H. Rosenbaum thevice-president of the Pittsburgh Industrial Removal Office, the director of thePittsburg United Hebrew Charities and the president of District No. 3 of theIndependent Order of B’nai B’rith.
1871:In Altdorf, Germany, Jonas Weil and his wife gave birth to Benjamin J. Weil theColumbia Law School graduate who went into the real estate business with hisfather and his brother, L. Victor Weil with whom he formed B.J. & L.V. WeilCompany, served as “trustee of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies andPresident of Congregation Zichron Ephraim” and who was the husband of “theformer Juliana Pollock.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1963/07/10/96234380.pdf
1872:The New York Tribune, the papercontrolled by presidential candidate Horace Greeley published a column entitledthe “Christian Spirit of Liberalism.”The column was an attempt to offset disparaging comments that Greely hadmade about Jews.
1873:In Birzai, Lithuania, Rubin and Fruma Hinda (Wittert) Cohen gave birth toScranton, PA realtor Abraham B. Cohen, he husband of Ella Wittret and Presidentof the Keyston Realty Company who was president of the NortheasternPennsylvania Districts of the United Synagogues of America, organizer andpresident the Linden Street Temple, and one of the organizers of Temple Israelin Scranton.
1874(3rdof Tishrei, 5635): Tzom Gedaliah
1874:In London, Clara and Marcus Landau gave birth to Isaac Landau.
1875(10thof Tishrei, 5545) Yom Kippur
1876:Rabbi Dr. Henry W. Schneeberger delivered his first sermon as rabbi of ChizukAmuno – ushering in what was to be a forty year association with this shul!
1876:It was reported today the B.F. Peixoto, the United States Consul at Bucharestand a prominent leader of the Jewish community will address the upcomingmeeting of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association.
1877:In Lithuania, Harris and Anne Mandelbaum gave birth to Annie Mandelbaum whobecame Annie Lillian Friedlander when she married Samson Friedlander.
1878:In New York, The Chamber of Commerce Relief Committee sent funds to a varietyof organizations that will alleviate the suffering from the Yellow FeverEpidemic including $1,000 for the Hebrew Benevolent Society in New Orleans.
1878(2ndof Tishrei, 5548): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1878:As the Yellow Fever Epidemic continues to hold New Orleans in its deadly grip,it was reported today that Marx Moses who had served as the Rabbi of theJackson Street Hebrew Congregation has lost most of his family including hiswife, a son named Samuel, and a daughter named Matilda. One child is convalescing after suffering about of the fever.
1879:“The Roumanian Hebrews” published today denied that Jews are being persecutedin Romania because of their religion.Rather, the new government is failing to honor its treaty obligationsand failing to make the Jews citizens for economic reasons. (Anti-Semitesalways do find a way
1879:It was reported today that there are 21 clergyman among the new members of theAustrian Parliament one of whom is a rabbi.
1879:It was reported today that the Jews of Cooktown, Austrialia, presented anaddress welcoming the Anglican Bishop of North Queensland who was both“surprised and gratified” by this turn of events.
1879:In New York City, Philip and Rebecca Davidson gave birth to Maurice P.Davidson, the NYU trained attorney who was the “founder of the City FusionParty” which played a key role in the election of Mayor La Guardia and thehusband of “the former Blanche Reinheimer and father of Robert, John, Alfred,Harold and Frank Davidson.”
1880(9thof Tishrei, 5641): In the evening Kol Nidre
1880:Birthdate of Latvia native Isaac Feinstein, the husband of Jennie AventFeinstein
1880:It was reported today that “Yom Kippur, or the Day of Atonement,…commences atsundown this evening. During thisperiod, orthodox Jews observe a strict fast, neither food nor drink beingpermitted to pass their lips for 24 hours.”
1881:A meeting is to be held at the Young Men’s Hebrew Association on 42ndStreet where a number of prominent New York Jewish leaders including CoronerMoritz Ellinger, Julie Bien and Adolph Sanger will make further plans for theRussian Jewish immigrants arriving in the city.Those “who are suited to farm work” will be settled on land, primarilyin Texas and Tennessee, purchased by these men who will also provide them withfunds for farm impliments.
1882(1stof Tishrei, 5643): Rosh Hashanah – The following poem by Emma Lazarus entitled“Rosh Hashanah 1882” captured her feelings about the day:
"TheNew Year"
RoshHashanah, 5643
Nowwhile the snow-shroud round
deadearth is rolled,
Andnaked branches point to frozen skies, --
Whenorchards burn their lamps of fiery gold,
Thegrape glows like a jewel, and the corn
Asea of beauty and abundance lies,
Thenthe New Year is born.
Lookwhere the mother of the months uplifts
Inthe green clearness of the unsunned West,
Herivory horn of plenty, dropping gifts,
Cool,harvest-feeding dews,
fine-winnowedlight;
Tiredlabor with fruition, joy and rest
Profuselyto requite.
Blow,Israel, the sacred coronet! Call
Backto thy courts whatever faint heart throb
Withthine ancestral blood, thy need craves all.
Thered, dark year is dead, the year just born
Leadson from anguish wrought
bypriest and mob,
Towhat undreamed-of morn?
Fornever yet, since on the holy height,
TheTemple's marble walls of white and green
Carvedlike the sea-waves, fell, and the world's light
Wentout in darkness, -- never was the year
Greaterwith potent and with promise seen,
Thanthis eve now and here.
Evenas the Prophet promised, so your tent
Hathbeen enlarged unto earth's farthest rim.
Tosnow-capped Sierras from vast steppes ye went,
Throughfire and blood and
tempest-tossingwave,
Mightyto slay and save.
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Highabove flood and fire ye held the scroll,
Outof the depths ye published still the Word.
Nobodily pang had power to swerve your soul:
Ye,in a cynic age of crumbling faiths,
Livedto bear witness to the living Lord,
Ordied a thousand deaths.
Intwo divided streams the exiles part,
Onerolling homeward to its ancient source,
Onerushing sunward with fresh will, new heart.
Byeach truth is spread, the law unfurled,
Eachseparate soul contains the nation's force,
Andboth embrace the world.
Kindlethe silver candle's seven rays,
Offerthe first fruits of the
clusteredbowers,
Thegarnered spoil of bees. With prayer and praise
Rejoicethat once more tried, once more we prove
Howstrength of supreme suffering still is ours.
ForTruth and Law and Love.
1882(1stof Tishrei, 5643): Henry (Hayyim Gershon) Vidaver passed away today in SanFrancisco, CA. Born in Warsaw in 1833, he was a prominent rabbi, publisher,Hebraist, and orator in America. “In 1859, Vidaver immigrated to the UnitedStates, and became the rabbi of Congregation Rodeph Shalom in Philadelphia. In1861 he resigned his position and moved to Germany then returned to the U.S. in1865 to become rabbi of United Hebrew Congregation in St. Louis, Missouri wherehe withdrew his support for the Confederacy and wrote in praise of AbrahamLincoln. In 1867, he assumed the pulpit of the B'nai Jeshurun in New York andfrom 1874 until his death in 1882 served as rabbi of Congregation SherithIsrael in San Francisco. Vidaver and Jacob Levinski co-authored the firstabridged Hebrew Bible, which was published in 1869. He also commonly publishedpoems in Hebrew about Jerusalem and other Jewish issues in Hebrew newspapers,such as Havatzelet.
1882:Rabbi Henry Pereira Mendes and lay-reader D. H. Nieto led Rosh Hashanahservices today at Shearith Israel in New York. “Their pronunciation of Hebrewsis according to the Spanish method.” (This is a reference to the fact that theyused Sephardic instead of Ashkenazi pronunciation that was common among thePolish, German and Russian Jews.)
1882:In Bloomington, Illinois, the Moses Montefiore Congregation, a newly formedReform congregation, held its first Rosh Hashanah service
1883:The Hebrew Charities found out that if they do not provided assistance toLouise Bremer, a widow who arrived aboard the SS Canada from France, she willbe sent back to Europe.
1884:“Biblical Geography” published today provides a detailed review of Kadesh-Barnes:Its Importance and Probable Site With the Story of A Hunt For It by H. ClayTrumbull which includes “studies of the route of the Exodus” and a search forthe Southern boundary of the Holy Land.
1885:Eight-year-old Abraham Schmidt who attends a Hebrew School at 127 Pitt Streetwas taken to the hospital after he was diagnosed as having smallpox.
1885:Birthdate of Marie Abelesová who was transported from Prague to Terezin whereshe was murdered in 1943 at the age of 57.
1885:It was reported today that from 1847 until January of 1885, 85,000 Russian Jewsand 11,000 Polish Jews had come to the United States. In the last 8 months, an additional 9,000 hadarrived in America. Currently, there are69,000 foreign born Jews living in the United States.
1886:After a four year engagement, Sigmund Freud married Martha Bernays in the sameyear during which he opened his practice.
1886:The will of “Commission Agent” Joseph Aarons, the “son of John Aarons” andhusband of “Julia Aarons” was probated today in the UK.
1888(9thof Tishrei, 5649): Kol Nidre
1888:The Hebrew Ladies’ Aid Society contributed $10.00 to the Mayor of New York’sYellow Fever Fund.
1890(29thof Elul, 5650): On the eve of Rosh Hashanah, Ray Frank became the first Jewishwoman to preach formally from a synagogue pulpit in the United States. Frankworked as a correspondent for several Californian newspapers, and this workbrought her to Spokane, Washington, on the eve of the High Holy Days. Frank wasshocked to find that no synagogue services were scheduled, since many affluentJews lived in the area. A prominent member of the community who knew of Frank'sreputation for Jewish learning offered to arrange Rosh Hashanah services ifFrank would give a sermon. Frank agreed, and word of the event spread; Jews andChristians alike came to hear her speak, filling the city's opera house.Frank's sermon entreated her audience to overcome the differences betweenReform and Orthodox ritual that had divided Spokane's Jewish community and toform a permanent congregation. Frank so impressed her audience that theyinvited her to remain through the High Holidays, and she delivered a sermon onthe eve of Yom Kippur as well. After these sermons, Frank was much in demand asa speaker throughout the 1890s across the country. The press speculated aboutFrank's rabbinic aspirations, and many headlines referred to her, incorrectly,as the first woman rabbi (America's first female rabbi was not ordained until1972). Although Frank expressed no interest in becoming a rabbi, her actionsforced American Jewry for the first time to consider seriously the possibilityof women rabbis.
https://jwa.org/thisweek/sep/14/1890/ray-frank
1890(29thof Elul, 5650): Rabbi Alexander Kohurt conducted services this evening atTemple Ahawath Chesed where the choir sang “By Thee, Oh God Inspired, Be TrueDevotion Shown” and “Though Ages Come and Go.”
1890(29thof Elul, 5650): Rabbi de Sola Mendes proved over services at Shaaray Tephillawhich ended with the singing of “Yigdal.
1890(29thof Elul, 5650): At six o’clock services began at Temple Emnu-El where RabbiSilverman delivered a sermon entitled “The Day of Reconciliation.”
1890:“Jews in Russian Service” published today described the surprise, firstexpressed in the Spectator that the Czar has forced thousands of Jews to jointhe army saying that “there is something strange in arming a body of menhabitually oppressed by the state.
1890:As of today, it is reported that there are 125,000 Jews in the Russian Armywith another 50,000 scheduled to be drafted next year.
1890:Rachel Green and her two children arrived today aboard the SS Sorento wherethey were met by her two son Charles and Simon who had landed at Castle Gardenthree years ago.
1891(11thof Elul, 5651): Rabbi Zeev Wolf Landau, the sonof Rabbi Abraham "The Ciechanówer" Landa and Itta Landaupassed away today.
1891:“Jews Made To Wait” published today described the arrest of 42 Polish andRussians who were arrested and later fined $2 each for failing to clear thesidewalk at the corner of Delancey and Ridge Streets fast enough to suit thelocal police – a failure brought on by the fact that the Jews did notunderstand what they were being told to do.
1892:In New York City, “Joseph and Bessie (Furman) Brickner gave birth to Columbiaeducated Barnett Robert Brickner the socially active and Zionist Reform Rabbiwho lead Holy Blossom Congregation in Toronto before beginning thirty threeyears of service at Anshe Chesed
https://case.edu/ech/articles/b/brickner-barnett-robert
1892:In Kingston, NY, Rabbi Gustav Gotheil preached the sermon at the dedication ofTemple Emanuel located on Abeel Street.“Henry Abbey read a poem entitled ‘Emanuel’” as part of the ceremony.
1892:Flora Weinberg, who is suing her Jewish husband Abraham Weinberg for divorce,made an application for alimony in Superior Court today.
1893(4thof Tishrei, 5654): Joseph Goldstein, a young Jewish tailor shot hisgirlfriend Rebecca Feinberg and thentook his own life at Garfunkel’s ice cream parlor when his matrimonial plansappeared to be frustrated.
1893:Dr. Gustave Hitzel, the Buffalo born son of Jacob J. and Bertha J. Hitzel andgraduate of the medical department of the University of Buffalo, marriedRoberta L. Cooke of Ontario with whom he had one son, Roswell C. Hitzel.
1894:Edward Gudeman, the New York City born son of Clara Alexander and MoritzGudeman the chemistry instructor at Columbia married Clara E. Asher today inMemphis, TN after which he settled in Chicago where he worked as consultingchemist, chemical engineer and “scientific expert.”
1894:The will of Dr. Bernard Grunhut was filed for probate in Kings CountySurrogates office today “by the executors, Abraham Stern and William GregoryKetcham.
1894:Today, in Memphis, TN, Edward Gudeman, Ph.D. the Columbia educated chemist andNew York born son of Clara Alexander and Mortiz Gudeman married Clara Asherafte which he went to move to Chicago where maintained a “private practice as aconsult chemist, chemical engineer and scientific expert.”
1894
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F70A17FD3A5515738DDDAC0994D1405B8485F0D3
1895:In New Jersey, there is no sign that the fire threatening the Jewish farmcolony at Reega will abate and the Russian immigrants may lose “the haven”financed by Baron Hirsch.
1895(25thof Elul, 5655): Parashat Nitavim-Vayeilech; Selichot
1895(25thof Elul, 5655): Fifty-two-year-old Moritz Brasch, the chief editor of the Brockhaus Konversations-Lexikon. Passedaway today in Leipzig.
1895:In Baltimore, MD, found of Congregation Zichron Jacobs which holds servicesdaily in the morning and evening and on Shabbat holidays and whose membersincluding William Marks, H.S. Hartogensis and Israel Goodman
1896: L'Eclairpublished "The Traitor," a retrospective article “which pretended tobring to light the real motives for the judgment” in Dreyfus case in 1894.
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1897(17th of Elul, 5657): Eleven-year-oldLeo Goldman, the St. Louis born son of Yetta and Samuel Goldman pass away todayafter which he was buried at B’nai Amoona Cemetery in University City, MO.
1897: Writing from Paris Rowland Strong describedevents at the recently concluded Oriental Congress where Monsieur Halevydelivered a paper about investigations that he had personally conducted inAbyssinia where he found a group of Essenes who “in every respect are similarto those existing in the time of Jesus Christ” and who “kept the Sabbath withextreme rigor…”
1898: In Elizabeth, NJ, Michael and Mary (Shapiro)Getzoff gave to Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn trained mechanical engineerEdward M. Getzoff, the employee of the Singer Manufacturing Company and theInternational Motor Company of Plainfield, NJ.
1898: Birthdate of movie producer Hal Wallis who is best known forhis most famous work, The Maltese Falconstarring Humphrey Bogart. The producer did not explain how when he had changedfrom Walinsky, his birth name, to Wallis.
1899(10thof Tishrei, 5660): The final Yom Kippur of the 19th century.
1899:Jews in London’s East End carrying a banner that read “Dreyfus, theMartyr. All the Civilized World DemandsHis Instant Release” marched through Spitalfields
1899:At 6 a.m. services began at the Great Synagogue in London where Dr. N.M. Adler,the congregation’s Rabbi delivered a sermon on the injustice of the Dreyfusverdict in which he said this was as great a defeat for France as Waterloo orSedan.
1899:Between three and four thousand people attended services today at Tammany Hallwhich lasted from seven until seven that were sponsored by the Odessa Musicaland Benevolent Association
1899:At Temple Israel, Dr. Maurice Harris delivered a sermon in which he declared“There is one man in everyone’s thoughts today – Captain Alfred Dreyfus” who“once vilified, has now the sympathy and admiration of the whole world.”
1899:“Panic In The Thalia Theatre” published today described the chaos that brokeout during Kol Nidre services when “a fight took place between some youths whocrowded the upper gallery” and somebody shouted “fire”
1899:Ohio native George W. Moses was promoted to the rank of 1st Lt. withthe 4th Cavalry in the United States Army.
1900(20thof Elul, 5660): On the Jewish calendar, yahrzeit Rabbi Judah Arey Moscato,“author of Kol Yehuda.”
1901(1stof Tishrei, 5662): Rosh Hashanah (See the item below – gives a whole newmeaning to the term New Year)
1901:Theodore Roosevelt becomes President of the United States following theassassination of William McKinley. Theodore Roosevelt was the last Republicanto receive significant Jewish support; his fierce independence and support ofspecific Jewish concerns made him a hero to many within this community. Theodore Roosevelt was the firstPresident to appoint a Jew to a presidential cabinet. In 1906 he named Oscar S.Straus Secretary of Commerce and Labor. Theodore Roosevelt was also the firstPresident to contribute his own funds to a Jewish cause. In 1919, when hereceived the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts while President to settle theRusso-Japanese War, Roosevelt donated some of his prize money to the NationalJewish Welfare Board. And then there is the fact that he took office on RoshHashanah.
1902:“Anti-Semitic Outbreak” published today described how “at Czenstochowa, apilgrim resort in Poland, on the Russian-Galician frontier,” “a mob stormed theJewish shops and wrecked the bread shops” while fourteen Jews were killed, andan untold number were injured.
1902:“Jewish Colony Found in the Caucasus” published today described how “anadventurous traveler who recently penetrated to the extreme highlands of theCaucasian Mountains where he reports that he has discovered in the remoteregions of Eastern Caucasus, clans of natives undoubtedly of Jewish origin, whomaintain many of the customs and the principal forms of religious worship oftheir ancestors.”
1902:Reverend Harris conducted a consecration service to marking the opening of thestructure occupied by the Griqualand West Hebrew Congregation which was led byits president Gustav Bonas.
1903(22ndof Elul, 5663): Jews of Homel, Russia, were massacred.
1903:Feibisch Jolles who passed away two days ago at the age of 71 was buried inVienna today.
1904:“Passports in Russian” published today described the Democrat platform’s standon the “failure of Russia to recognize passports in the hands of American Jews”as “explicit and straightforward” in its support for the passports of allcitizens to be recognized” while saying “that there not a concurrence amongRepublicans in the assertion of” President Roosevelt “that the State Departmenthas done all that can be done to safeguard the interests of American Jewstraveling in Russia.”
1905:As strikers in Baku continue their violence, it “is reported from Kursk thatgangs of toughs are attacking the Jews.”
1906:In Chicago’s “Maxwell Street neighborhood, Morris and Grace Gertz gave birth toUniversity of Chicago trained attorney whose clients included Nathan Leopold,Arthur Miller and Jack Ruby. (As reported by Eric Pace)
1907:“Over a thousand members of the Zionist Council of Greater New York met inCooper Union tonight and passed resolutions denouncing those who have opposedthe Zionist movement, which has as its object the establishment of a permanentJewish colony in Palestine and the ultimate regaining of the entire Holy Landby the Jewish people.”
1908:The first Jewish self-defense organization in Eretz Yisrael was founded. Thisis probably a reference to Ha-Shomer (in English "The Watchman")which other sources say was founded in 1909.Made up of about forty members, Ha-Shomer was founded to protect theearly kibbutzim and Jewish towns from attacks by marauding Arab robbers andothers. The early settlers weredetermined not to rely on others for their defense. This mounted force that could blend in withthe local population because they dressed liked Arabs and spoke Arabic had asits motto," By blood and fire Judea fell; by blood and fire Judea shallrise."
1909:“The Chocolate Soldier,” a “Viennese operetta by Oscar Strauss” based on theplay “Arms and the Man” is scheduled to open today at the Lyric Theatre in NewYork.
1909:At the request of the Hahambashi, authorities take important steps to suppressthe White Slave Trade. Both Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews did have involvementwith this, but when Chief Rabbi Nahum provided the Turks with lists of namesfor investigations, they did nothing with them.
1910:“Searching Kieff For Jews” published today reported that “from September 9 toSeptember 12, fifty Jews “were hustled out of the city” and thirty-two morewere notified they were being deported while forty eight Jews were expelledfrom suburban communities at the same time that the authorities have begun togive “their attention to those who have thus far escaped expulsion by hiding.
1911:University of Pennsylvania trained chemist Jacob Samuel Goldbaum, the New YorkCity born son of Rosalie Berkowitz and Michale Goldbaum, an instructor innelctro-chemistry and the University of Pennsylvania, the chief chemist at Felsand Company and a member of the board of trustees of Rodeph Shalom married NellVirginia Lieb today.
1911:Maximilian Toch continued to serve as President of the Sanitarium for HebrewChildren where he had established “a chemical and bacteriological laboratory”to insurance the purity of the milk served to the youngsters.
1912:Harry Horowitz and “Lefty Louis” Rosenberg were arrested in Queen today oncharges of having participated in the murder of gambler Herman Rosenthal.
1912(3rdof Tishrei, 5673): Shabbat Shuva
1912(3rdof Tishrei, 5673): Mrs. Sara Simsohn passed away.
1913:Birthdate of historian Mary Plug Handlin the wife and colleague of ProfessorOscar Handlin passed away today
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1976/5/25/mary-flug-handlin-dies-at-62/
1913:Today, thirty-three-year-old Rabbi Aaron Cohen, the Russian born son of Bearand Hodel Cohen married Edith Lubinsky while serving Agudas Achim in Peoria,IL.
1914:Having failed to defeat the French and the British in a quick summertimeoffensive, the Kaiser replaced Helmuth von Moltke (the Younger) with Erich vonFalkenhayn as German Chief of Staff.(Editor’s note – this was the first of many German attempts to blamesomebody for their failure to win, a blame game that would end with theinfamous “stabbed in the back” canard that would be used to justify the rise ofHitler)
1914(23rd of Elul, 5674): Lt. Ronald LucasQuixano Henriques of the Queen’s Regiment, a member of a long-establishedSephardi family who attended Harrow and Sandhurst (the British West Point) waskilled today making him the first Anglo-Jewish officer to die during WW I.
1915: Dr. Felix Kornfeld and Paula Mandl gavebirth to their second child, Ulrich Kornfeld the husband of Lorie Granitsch.
1915: It was reported today that “Turks admitthat the Armenian persecution is the first step in a plan to get rid of”several groups and “that the Jews also are marked for slaughter and expulsion.”
1915: Albert Lucas, Secretary of the CentralCommittee for the Relief of Jews suffering through the war announced today theorganization of a new committee in Paterson, NJ.”
1916: Samuel Goldwyn resigned as Chairman ofthe Board of the Famous Players-Lasky after a series of dispute with JesseLasky, leading to a partnership with Edgar and Archibald Selwyn that wouldbecome known as Goldwyn Pictures with its distinctive “Leo the Lion” (theroaring lion) trademark.
1916(16th of Elul, 5676):Sixty-six-year-old broker Jefferson Rosenberg passed away today in London
1916: “Instructions to arrange fortransportation of sixty-five American women and children out of Palestine onthe cruiser Des Moines were called by the State Department today to theAmerican Constantinople.”
1916: It was reported today the motion madeby Joseph Barondess and seconded by Leo Arnstein to allow Jewish teachers andclerks to be excused from work on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur which had beenobjected to by Arthur S. Somers, Dr. Ira S. Wiles and Thomas W. Churchill evenafter the motion was changed to make it leave without pay was referred to theCommittee on By-Laws
1917: At Petrograd, the ringleaders of “HolyRussia” a secret society that published a newspaper Groza “that containedattacks on the Jews and the Allies, urged an immediate peace and declared thatthe Jews were responsible for the continuance of the war.”
1917: Yeshivas in Kovno, Vilna, Radin andGrodno received assistance from a committed founded “for that purposed byOrthodox Jews in Berlin.”
1917: In Jerusalem, the Hebrew daily Ha-Herut suspended publication.
1917: Three days after he had passed away, 17year old Myer Ganz, the son of “Joseph and Jane Ganz” was buried today at thePlashet Jewish Cemetery.
1917: In Warsaw, the order of Germanauthorities expelling all students who were not natives of the city from thecolleges and universities led to a disproportionate number of Jews having toend their studies.
1917: It was reported today that ChairmanHarry Cutler of the Jewish Board of Welfare Work in the Army and Navy hasannounced “hospitality at services on the high holy days would be extended toall men in military service who obtain a leave of absence” as permitted by theSecretary of the Navy or the Adjutant General who have ordered that furloughsbe granted so long as granting them “does not interfered with public service.”
1918(8thof Tishrei, 5679): Shabbat Shuva
1918:By order of the War Department and the Secretary of the Navy, Jewish soldiersand sailors have been granted furloughs effective today so they observed theirholy days.
1918:On the Western Front, Abraham Blaustein of the 165th regiment(formerly the fabled 69th regiment) was among the troops who enteredSt. Benoit where the Allies established[ML1] their front line.
1918:In Warsaw, German authorities issued an order expelling all students who were not natives of the city, a largenumber of whom were Jewish, from colleges and universities.
1918:“The Zionist Organization of America announced” tonight “that information hadbeen received from Austria showing the existence there and in West Germany of awell-developed agitation to provoke the Christian population against theirfellow-countrymen of the Jewish faith, which had grown to such a dangerousstage as to call for a public protest by the council of the Jewish Community ofVienna to which more than 400 communities in Austria have signified theirapproval.” (Editor’s note – this may explain why the Anschluss with itsAnti-Semitism went so smoothly a mere 30 years later.)
1919(19thof Elul, 5679): Sixty-eight-year-old Polish born French chess master JeanTaubenhaus passed away
1919:Today, “The 22nd Annual Convention of the Zionist Organization ofAmerica…opened at the Auditorium Theatre” in Chicago.
1920(2nd of Tishrei, 5681): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1920: Rabbi Jacob Katz is scheduled to lead services this morningat B’nai Israel in Brooklyn
1920: Rabbi Nathan Blechmanis scheduled to deliver a sermon on “God’s Way with Man” this morning atMontefiore Congregation in the Bronx.
1920: Rabbi David Davidson is scheduled to deliver a sermon on“The Survival of the Morally Fit” this morning.
1920: Birthdate of economist and Nobel Prize Winner, LawrenceKlein.
1920: Best wishes for the New Year were extended to “members,patrons, donors and friends of Jewish Maternity Hospital on East Broadway ofwhich Sam Finkelstein is the President.
1920: Prices of poultry were expected to be reduced from to 8 to 5cents per pound for the New Year because the health commissioner of New York’sdecision “to issue a large number of licenses to prepare meats for the HighHoly days in order to produce independent competition with the so-called kosherpoultry trust.”
1921(8th of Elul, 5681): Esther Teitelbaum, thedaughter of Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum and Chavah Horowitz and the granddaughter ofAbraham Chaim Horowitz passed away today.
1921: It was reported today that over the past weekend, Dr.Rudolph Coffee has been installed as the Rabbi of Temple Sinai is Oakland CA.
1922: “The Earl of Essex” a silent film about the English noblestarring Eva May was released today in Germany.
1923: Three days after he had passed away, seventy-two-year-oldPhiladelphia optician and movie producer Siegmund Lubin, the Breslau born sonof ophthalmologist Samuel Lubszyński and Rebeka Lubszyńska,who had formedthe Lubin Manufacturing Company to make movies in the City of Brotherly Love
Brotherly Love was buriedtoday.
1923: Miguel Primo de Rivera becomes dictator of Spain. “Thegovernment of Miguel Primo de Rivera decreed that every Sephardi could claimSpanish citizenship. This right was used by some refugees during the SecondWorld War, including the Hungarian Jews saved by Ángel Sanz Briz and GiorgioPerlasca. This decree was again put to use to receive some Jews from Sarajevoduring the Bosnian War.”
1924: Birthdate of Willem Polak whose parents were murdered duringthe Holocaust and who served as Mayor of Amsterdam for six years.
1925(25th of Elul, 5685): Sixty-year-old Max Pam who “read law inthe offices of Adolph Moses” before gaining admission to the bar and whoseclients included such blue chip companies as U.S. Steel and International whichprovided him with the wherewithal to serve as the benefactor of Hebrew UnionCollege and Notre Dame where funded the School of Journalism passed away today.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9C07E6D7133AEF3ABC4D52DFBF66838E639EDE
1926:It was announced to that “Julius Rosenwald has been chosen head of a committeethat is arranging a conference of State and city chairman of the $25,000,000United Jewish Campaign” which will be held on October 9 and October 10 at theStandard Club in Chicago.
1927(17thof Elul, 5687): Forty-six-year-old Mrs. Abraham Joseph Hyman (Esther Levy) thewife of a Manchester, UK, grocery store who survived the sinking of the Titanicand with whom she had two children – Jonas and Rachel – passed away today.
1928(29thof Elul, 5688): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1928:On New York’s Lower East Side, Mammie and Morris Shanker, Jewish immigrantsfrom Poland gave birth to labor leader Albert Shanker, the President of themilitant American Federation of Teachers which challenged the dominantteachers' organization, the NEA.
http://www.shankerinstitute.org/
1928:“Kiddush Hashem,” an “historical drama in three act and seventeen scenes” wasfirst performed today by Maurice Schwartz’s Yiddish Art Theater troupe” todayat the Yiddish Art Theatre at 114 East Street.
https://www.moyt.org/exhibitions/pih/kiddush-hashem.htm
1928:“Sinner’s Parade” one of what have been the last “silent crime films” producedby Harry Cohn with a “story by David Lewis” was released today in the UnitedStates.
1929:In Manhattan, Mary Gutfreund and Manuel Gutfreudn, a butcher who became a meatwholesaler and distributor gave birth to financier John Gutfreund. (As reportedby Jonathan Kandell)
1930:“German voters elect 107 Nazis to the Reichstag, elevating Hitler’sorganization to major party status.
1930:When the Nazi Party polled six million votes during today’s election, theCatholic hierarchy called on its people to examine their consciences.
1930:Forty-eight year old Bet A. Polsky, the son of Abram and Mollie Bloch Polsky“opened his store in downtown Akron, Ohio today.”
1930:First baseman Hank Greenberg made his major league debut with the DetroitTigers.
1930:Birthdate of Allan Bloom, the native of Indianapolis best known for championingan intellectual approach to education and literacy encapsulated in TheClosing of the American Mind.
http://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/08/obituaries/allan-bloom-critic-of-universities-is-dead-at-62.html
1931:Birthdate “Czech novelist and playwright Ivan Kilma.”
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/14917-wilczynski-ernest-julius
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Wilczynski/
1932:Minnie and Max Koeppel gave birth to real estate developer Alfred J. Koeppelwho followed in the footsteps of his grandfather Abraham Koeppel the founder ofKoeppel and Koeppel.
https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Attorney+Alfred+Koeppel,+68,+long-time+real+estate+mogul.-a071203651
https://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/04/business/alfred-koeppel-68-headed-real-estate-concern.html
1933:Mrs. Zackheim, the widow of a German-Jewish author attracted considerableattention as she sat behind the wheel of her taxicab in Tel Aviv. Mrs. Zackheim appears to have been the firstfemale cab driver in Palestine, but she will not be the last if reports that “acooperative group of women drivers, most of them refugees from Germany” is inits formative organizational stages prove to be correct.
1934:“The bad German trade balance is not due so much to the economic boycott as tothe "amazing internal extravagances" of the Hitler regime, accordingto Dorothy Thompson, journalist and author, who returned on the United Statesliner Leviathan today.
1934:“Avery Brundage, who is investigating whether Germany's treatment of Jewishsportsmen will permit America to participate in the next Olympic gamesscheduled to take place in 1936, announced today that he had decided "notto decide this thorny question on the spot."
1935(16thof Elul, 5695): Parashat Ki Tavo
1935(16thof Elul, 5695): A week after his 58th birthday Hungarian born EugeneKrow, the husband of Helen Klein and father of Charlotte Jean Krow, passed awayin McKeesport, PA where he helped to organize a synagogue.
1935:“Special Agent” a gangster movie produced by Samuel Bischoff was released inthe United States by Warner Bros.
1935:A day before the Nuremberg laws were introduced “by the Reichstag at a specialmeeting convened at the annual Nuremberg Rally of the Nazi Party,” and while adebated was raging about boycotting the 1936 Olympics because of German racialpolicies, it was reported that “General Charles H. Sherrill, an American memberof the International Olympic Committee had left Nuremberg” on September 13after having been the personal guest of Hitler…
1935:Re-release of “Thirteen Women” produced by David O. Selznick, with a screenplayby Samuel Ornitz and music by Max Steiner.
1936:Left fielder Morrie Arnovich made his major league debut with the PhiladelphiaPhillies of the National League.
1936(27thof Elul, 5696: Ossip Gabrilowitsch, who has been rated as one of the half dozengreatest pianists of his generation and is the Director of the Detroit SymphonyOrchestra, passed away. His wife Clara,the daughter of Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) and their daughter Nina were withhim.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F2071FFB345B1B7B93C7A81782D85F428385F9
1936(27thof Elul, 5696): Thirty-seven-year-oldIrving Grant Thalberg, known was the “Boy Wonder” of filmdom who was the creative force at MGM and thehusband of actress Norma Shearer who converted to Judaism so she could marryhim passed away today.
http://articles.latimes.com/2006/sep/14/local/me-a2anniversary14
1936:The Maccabees of Tel Aviv, soccer champions of Palestine, arrived in New YorkCity today for a tour of North America.
1936:Mrs. Amy G. Wyle is scheduled to preside over the testimonial luncheon honoringMrs. Herbert H. Lehman “the proceeds” of which “will be added to the donationsreceived by the Greater New York Campaign which is seeking to raise $1,500,000for reconstruction work on behalf of Jews in Germany, Poland and EasternEurope.”
1936:Two German Jews are among the thirty foreign aviators quartered at CuatroVientos Airport in Madrid where they have joined the fight against Franco andhis fascists.
1936:At testimonial luncheon given today in her honor at the Hotel Commodoresponsored by the Women’s Division of the Greater New York Campaign of the JointDistribution Committee that is raising $1,500,000 for the aid of Jews inGermany, Poland and other parts of Eastern Europe, Mrs. Herbert H. Lehmandescribed “the destitute condition of the oppressed groups in Europe,particularly the Jewish people of German” and made a please for supporting thework of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
1936:Outfielder Morrie Arnovich made his major league debut with the PhiladelphiaPhillies.
1937(9thof Tishrei, 5698): Erev Yom Kippur, Kol Nidre
1937:WHN is scheduled to broadcast Yom Kippur services from Temple Emanu-El from 8to 9:30 P.M.
1937:WABC Network is scheduled to broadcast a program arranged by the NationalFederation of Sisterhoods starting at 4:30 P.M. that will included the “singingof Kol Nidre by a choir under the direction of Ruth Best” and readings from theUnion Prayer Book by Rabbi George Zepin, the Secretary of the Union ofAmerican Hebrew Congregations..
1937:Outfielder Goody Rosen made his major league debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1937:Today, “a group of 30 men announced the formation of the Rochester ProfessionalFootball Team, Inc. to continue operation of the Rochester Tigers” which werecoached by former All-American quarterback Harry Newman.
1938: Birthdate of actor and comedian Leonard Frey.
1938:During the crisis over the Sudetenland, French diplomat Georges Bonnetdisplayed the attitude of Western Weakness that would lead to WW II when todayhe told Sir Eric Phipps that “we cannot sacrifice ten million men in to preventthree and half million Sudetens joining the Reich.”
1938(18thof Elul, 5698): While escorting a laborer’s cart, Alfred Asher, a Jewishpoliceman, was shot dead on the road between Rehovoth and Givat Brenner.
1938(18thof Elul, 5698): Three Jews were killed when a land mine exploded under theircar while they traveled on the road between Afuleh and Kirat Zion.
1938(18thof Elul, 5698): “Late in the afternoon Dr. Abraham Rosenthal, a well-knownheart specialist in Jerusalem was shot dead at Ramleh while driving from TelAviv.
1939(1stof Tishrei, 5700): Rosh Hashanah 5700
1939(1stof Tishrei, 5700): On the first day of the Jewish New Year, 43 Jews were taken,forced to do labor and then shot to death at Przemsysl, Poland. Asscheer Gitterwas among the dead.
1939:Order No.7 of German Civilian Administration transferred all Jewish industrialand commercial enterprises in Poland to "Aryan' hands. This was part of the ongoing economic warthat the Nazis conducted against the Jews wherever they went. Killing Jews was the Final Solution. But the first goal was to steal everythingthe Jews owned (so much for the nobility of the Aryans).
1939:“The German Army entered” Wloclawek, Poland “and aided by local sympathizers,began looting Jewish property, shooting Jews, and burning synagogues.” (YadVashem)
1939:For the second time in three days, the Luftwaffe bombed Warsaw which theWehrmacht crossed the Bug River forcing the government of Poland which had leftit* capital to leave Luck and keep moving southwards.
1939:Today, during the Battle of the Atlantic, the long running Allied fight todefeat the Nazi submarine attempt to strangle England and prevent shipping ofthe supplies necessary for the invasion of Europe, the British scored theirfirst victory when U-39 failed to sink the HMS Ark Royal and was forced tosurface where it was scuttled.
1939:Eric Colcraft, a photographer with the English newspaper Planet News took apicture today of a Jewish orphanage in Warsaw, Poland, after the Germans hadbombed the city
http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/september/03.asp
1940:Isaac Siegel began serving as Justice of the Domestic Relations Court in NewYork City – a position he held until his death.
1940(11thof Elul, 5700): Parashat Ki Teitzei
1940(11thof Elul, 5700): Sixty-one-year-old Prague native Ernst August Pribram, the sonof Dr. Otto Primbram and Fanny Primbram, the Austrian Army, serologist andbacteriologist who settled in Chicago where he taught at Loyola University,passed away.
1941(22ndof Elul, 5701): Nine thousand Jews were killed by the Nazis in Slonim, Russia
1941:Dedication of Temple Emanu-El inDothan, Alabama. Jews have lived in the Dothan area for over one hundredyears. The congregation was charted in1929.
1942(3rd of Tishrei, 5703): Tzom Gedaliah
1942(3rd of Tishrei, 5703): WellesleyCollege graduate Sylvia Goulston Dreyfus, “a trustee of the New EnglandConservatory of Music” and “chairman of the Boston Committee of the PalestineOrchestra Fund” who was married to Carl Dreyfus with whom she had three childrenpassed away today in Boston.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1942/09/15/85050440.pdf
1942: Pitcher Harry Shuman made his major leaguedebut with the Pittsburgh Pirates.
1942: Having shot down one bomber and one fighteryesterday over Stalingrad, according to authors, Lydia Litvyak shot down hersecond Messerschmitt, the fighter that was the pride of the Luftwaffe
1943:Jacob Gens, head of the Jewish Council of the Vilna Ghetto was summoned toGestapo headquarters. He never returned.Earlier in the Summer Gens had played a less than stellar role regardingarmed resistance to the Nazis in Vilna.A Jewish shoemaker named Itzik Vitenberg was the leader of resistancegroup that planned on fighting the Nazis in the ghetto. Vitenberg was turned over to the Nazis byJewish police chief in the Ghetto. Afterhe was rescued by his comrades, the Gestapo demanded that the Jews surrenderhim or suffer the consequences. Gensurged the people to give him up; to not sacrifice the common good for oneperson. The Vilna Jews felt that theyhad enjoyed a year and half of "peace" thanks to Gens working withthe Nazis and ultimately Vitenberg was forced to give himself up. He wasbrutally murdered by the Nazis.
1944(26thof Elul, 5704): Seventy-nine-year-old Judith Eugenia Salzedo Morningstar, theCleveland born daughter of “Benjamin Franklin Peixotto and Hannah Peixotto, thewife of Joseph (Illava) Morningstar and mother of Karl Illava Morningstar;Joseph K. George (Illava) Morningstar, Jr.; Benjamin (Robert) PeixottoMorningstar; Flora (Peggy) Funkhouser Owen; Percy Peixotto Morningstar; andMary (Marie) C. MacLennan” passed away today in Charleston, West Virginia.
1944(26thof Elul, 5704): Wilhelm Haas, the husband of Eleasah (Elise) Haas, who is thegranddaughter of Bella Baer the daughter of Rabbi Samuel Marx, the uncle ofKarl Marx, died today at Theresienstadt.
1945:“Asserting that 5,000,000 Jews in Europe had lost their lives and that thosesurviving were in a pitiable condition, William O’Dwyer, Democratic andAmerican Labor party candidate of Mayor declared that the human wreckage leftby the Nazis at the end of the war needed immediate salvaging.”
1945:On the Friday before the Day of Atonement, WABC broadcast a Yom Kippur Servicefrom 5 to 5:15 led by Chaplain Jacob P. Rudin, Cantor David Putterman andChaplain Luther D. Miller.
1945:At 5:30 in the evening WQXR broadcast a service from Temple Emanu-El
1945:At 8:00 pm WEVD broadcast “News in Yiddish” followed fifteen minutes later bythe “Jewish Philosopher.”
1945:According to reports published in the NewYork Times, Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, has sent$1,112,000 during the past four months to the Youth Aliyah (immigration) Bureauof the Jewish for the purpose of caring for young Jews who have survived theNazi camps.
1946:Hank Greenberg drives in 7 Tiger Runs with 2 home runs and a double as Detroitdefeats the Yankees in their final game of the season.
1947(29thof Elul, 5707): Erev Rosh Hashana
1947:WW II Navy Chaplain Charles E. Shulman who has been the spiritual head of NorthShore Congregation Israel for sixteen years is scheduled to “conduct his firstservice as rabbi of Riverdale Temple” this evening.
1947:Seventy-three-year-old soldier/statesman General Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchopethe High Commissioner and Commander-in-Chief for Palestine and Trans-Jordanfrom 1931 until his retirement in 1938 – a period that was marked by “athree-fold increase in the Jewish population” and an “economic boom of sortsfor Jewish commercial activities but was also marred by the Arab uprisingpassed away today.
1948:“Johnny Belinda,” a film version of the Broadway play produced by Jerry Waldand with music by Max Steiner was released today in the United States.
1948:David Ben-Gurion met with all 64 Palmach commanding officers. He explained to them why he was abolishingthe Palmach National Command which had acted as an army within an army sincethe establishment of the IDF. Ben-Gurionwas determined to see to it that there was only national military force inIsrael and that it was under the control of the government. Neither the Irgun on the right nor thePalmach on the left would be allowed to undermine this goal.
1948:With the sound of shellfire from Arab artillery in the background, Dr. FelixRosenblueth, the Ministers of Justice swore in the first five justices to serveon Israel’s newly created Supreme Court.Chief Justice Moshe Smoira and Justices Rabbi Simcha Assaf, ItzhakOlshan, Moshe Dunkelblum and Schneur Zalman Cheshin covered their heads andrecited the oath “to maintain fidelity to the State of Israel and its laws andnot to swerve from justice but to judge people properly.” This is the firstJewish court to sit in a Jewish state since the Sanhedrin met in the days ofthe Second Commonwealth
1948: Milton Berle started his TV career onTexaco Star Theater. "UncleMiltie" would become the first national television entertainmentcelebrity. In the early fifties, thisJewish semi-successful vaudeville comic would dominant Tuesday nights in a waynot since again until the creation of Monday Night Football.
1949:“The American Jewish League Against Communism, Inc, today renewed its chargethat ‘400,000 Jews were deported from the Ukraine, and White Russia toArchangel and Siberia because the are considered to pro-democratic to be lefton the Soviet borers in case of possible war.’”
1949:In Tel Aviv, military and diplomatic and civil sources say that “it just cannotbe done” when it comes to severing Jerusalem from the rest of Israel.
1950(3rdof Tishrei, 5711): Tzom Gedaliah
1950:As tensions rise over the Israeli occupation of an area at Naharayim along theconfluence of the Yarmuk and Jordan River, “Maj. Gen. William E. Riley, UnitedNations chief truce supervisor, said that, from an interpretation of a map,Israel undoubtedly was right in her claim to land disputed by Jordan, but thathe had legal reservations arising from the fact that the land had belonged toTransjordan before the” fighting in 1948. The area in question is the site ofthe Israeli owned Rutenberg Hydroelectric Plant which had “been the mostimportant source of electric power for Palestine “but had fallen into disusedue to the dispute with Jordan. As nightfell, Major General Yigal Yadin, the Israeli Army Chief of Staff expressedIsrael’s determination to defend all of its land even if meant a renewedoutbreak of hostilities.
1950:In New York, “Pamela (née Wolkowitz) and Murray Deutch, a music executive andpublisher” gave birth to director Howard Deutch whose body of work includes“The Replacement” a comedy that will warm the heart of any Washington, DCfootball fan.
1952:At the Harmonie Club, Rabbi Gerson Levi officiated at the wedding of MiriamTarcher and David Karney, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Shalom Volovelsky of Tel Aviwho was a former member of the Israeli embassy staff in Washington, DC.
1953:”Alwaysa Bride” a comedy with a musical score by Benjamin Frankel was released todayin the United Kingdom.
1954(16thof Elul, 5714): Seventy-four-year-old Rabbi Jacob Massel the Belarus born sonof Gittel and Sophie Massel, husband of Sophie Massel and father of Ezekiel,Moses and Menachem Massel, who was one of the founders of HIAS “died suddenly”today.
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1955:Birthdate of Yosef Yitzhak Paritzky, the Israeli lawyer whose political careerhas included serving as an MK and Minister of National Infrastructure.
1955:Birthdate of Pulitzer Prize winning author Geraldine Brooks whose worksincluded People of the Book, a novel featuring the Sarajevo Haggadah.
1956(9thof Tishrei, 5717): Erev Yom Kippur; Kol Nidre
1956:The American Hebrew appeared for the last time before merging withthe Examiner to become The American Examiner.
1957:CBS broadcast the first episode of “Have Gun – Will Travel” that included anopening theme composed by Bernard Herrmann and over its six year historyincluded episodes written by Bruce Geller and Irving Wallace as well asappearances by Martin Balsam, Sydney Pollack, Norma Crane, Suzanne Pleshette,Werner Klemperer and Dyan Cannon
1957:In Halifax, Beth El Congregation completed its new sanctuary located on thecorner of Oxford Street and Coburg Road
1957:Birthdate of Pittsburgh born and educated hedge-fund manager David Alan Tepperwho gave up his share of the Pittsburgh Steelers so that he could become ownerof the Carolina Panthers.
1958(29thof Elul, 5718): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1958(29thof Elul, 5718): Eighty-two-year-old Frieda Fanny Warburg, the daughter of Jacoband Therese Schiff and wife of Felix Moritz Warburg passed away at WhitePlains, NY.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/Warburg-Frieda-Schiff
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1958/09/15/79401538.pdf
1959(29thof Elul, 5719): Forty-five-year-old radio writer Milton Lewis, “the author ofthe long-running radio serial, ‘This Is Nora Drake’ on WCBS” passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/09/15/88821043.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1959(11thof Elul, 5719): Seventy-two-year, Scottish chemist Sir Ian Heilbron (bornIsidor Morris) passed away today.
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1959(11thof Elul, 5719): Fifty-five-year-old London born Dr. Joshua Trachtenberg, theholder of degrees from CCNY, Columbia and Hebrew Union College, a leading Rabbiin the Reform movement who sought to “further liberal Judaism in Israel” whowas the husband of Edna Suer Trachtenberg with whom he had one child passedaway today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/09/15/88821035.pdf
1960:The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded. Thepersistence of the Arab-Israeli conflict finally triggered a response thattransformed OPEC into a formidable political force. After the Six Day War of1967, the Arab members of OPEC formed a separate, overlapping group, theOrganization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries, for the purpose ofcentering policy and exerting pressure on the West over its support of Israel.Egypt and Syria, though not major oil-exporting countries, joined the lattergrouping to help articulate its objectives. Later, the Yom Kippur War of 1973galvanized Arab opinion. Furious at the emergency re-supply effort that hadenabled Israel to withstand Egyptian and Syrian forces, the Arab world imposedthe 1973 oil embargo against the United States and Western Europe, whilenon-Arab OPEC members did not.
1962:“Jungle Fighters” produced by Michael Balcon, with a screenplay by WolfMankowitz, music by Stanley Black and starring Laurence Harvey was releasedtoday in the United States.
1963(25thof Elul, 5723): Parashat Nitzavim-Vayeilech; Leil Selchot
1963(25thof Elul, 5723) Fifty-three-year-old Mrs. Jeanne Lifrak Ezickson, the formerreporter, picture editor for AP and dress shop owner who acted under the nameof Jeanne Asch and was the wife of Aaron J. Ezickson passed away today inKingston, NY.
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1964(8thof Tishrei, 5725): Fifty-eight-year-old Vasily Grossman, the Soviet journalistwho provided first-hand accounts of the battles at Moscow, Stalingrad, Kurskand Berlin as well as riveting descriptions of the death camp at Treblinka,passed away today.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/06/vasily-grossman-russia-victory-day
1965:Pope Paul VI opened the fourth and final session of Vatican II which approvedNostra Aetate which said that “all Jews today are no more responsible for thedeath of Christ than Christians.”
1965:Final publication of the American Hebrew which had begun publication in 1935.
1966(29thof Elul, 5726): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1966:Stephen Neal Shulman, the son of Harry Shulman, a Jewish immigrant from theRussian Empire who served as a professor and eventual dean at Yale Law Schoolbegan serving as Chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
1966(29thof Elul, 5726): Actress Gertrude Edelstein Berg passed away. Born in 1894, Berg gained fame as the Jewishhousewife Molly Goldberg. She began therole on radio in 1929. She sharpened itin the 1948 Broadway hit Molly and Me.She reached her apex of celebrity when The Goldbergs was a television hit from 1949 through 1955. Berg was a victim of Senator McCarthy's RedHunt and the show was taken off the air.
1968(21stof Elul, 5728): Parashat Ki Tavo; Leil Selichot
1968(21stof Elul, 5728): Eighty-six-year-old Berlin native and the University ofFreiburg and Humboldt University trained attorney Ernst Levy, the WW I veteranof the German Army who became a professor at the University of Washington afterhaving been forced to leave his native land by the Nazis passed away today.
1969(2ndof Tishrei, 5730): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1969(2ndof Tishrei, 5730): As traditional Jews observe the second day of Rosh Hashanahthe miracle Mets who survived Art Shamsky’s decision not to play on the JewishNew Year continue their drive for the National League Pennant.
1969:“Sinai Tour Routes Avoid Suez Routes” published today described “one of theunexpected results of the six-day war of 1967” is a boom in tourism in theSinai Peninsula
1970(13thof Elul, 5730): Seventy-year-old Ukraine native and Columbia trained educatorAbraham D. Feingold , “a co-founder and co‐director of the RugbySchool, an institution for mentally retarded and handicapped children inBrooklyn” and whose “name was thrust into the public spotlight in 1950, when,with seven other public school teachers here, he was” unfairly “suspendedwithout pay for refusing to answer questions about his conduct and his loyalty,including questions on alleged membership in the Communist party” passed awaytoday.
1972:The building on West Franklin Street that had been home to Beth Ahabah (Hebrew:House of Love) a Reform synagogue in Richmond, Virginia that was founded in1789, was designated as part of the U.S. Historic District.
1972(6thof Tishrei , 5733): Eighty-five-year-old Worcester, MA native and University ofPennsylvania graduate Rabbi Julius J. Price, the holder of a Ph.D. fromColumbia and graduate of JTS who was “chaplain of the Bronx County Jail andspiritual director of Sinai Temple who was the husband of “the former FlorenceCooper” with whom he had two sons, Winston and Ira Price passed away today.
1972(6thof Tishrei, 5733): Eighty-four-year-old French playwright Jean-Jacques Bernardwho was interned at Compiegne at the start of the Nazi occupation but whoavoided deportation to one of the death camps passed away today in Paris.
1972:In the wake of the Munich Massacre, it was reported today that the officialChinese government newspaper Jenmin-Jih Pao said that “the Israeli aggressorsclaimed to have bombed Syria and Lebanon in self-defense” but what they hadcommitted was inexcusable aggression designed “to undermine the unity betweenthe Arab nations and the Palestinian people.”
1973:Israel shot down 13 Syrian MIG-21s. Itwas victories like this that bred the sense of over-confidence that somecritics would later lead to the successful sneak attack that started the YomKippur War (October, 1973).
1973:“Stateline Motel,” the movie version of the novel, starring Eli Wallach wasreleased in Italy today.
1974:Broadcast of the first episode of “Friends & Lovers” a sitcom created byJames L. Brooks and Allan Burns and starring Jack Gilford and Steve Landesberg.
1974:Birthdate of Evanston, Illinois native Lindsey Durlacher the All-Americanwrestler at the University of Illinois who the bronze medal in Men’sGreco-Roman Wrestling while representing the United States at the WorldChampionships in 2006.
1975(9thof Tishrei, 5736: Erev Yom Kippur
1976:CBS broadcast “Rescue At Entebbe: How They Saved The Hostages” a “news specialabout the planning and execution of the recent Israeli commando raid in Ugandato free airline hostages.”
1976:“Bar Mitzvah Boy,” a British television play, written by Jack Rosenthal, wasbroadcast today.
1976:“Hard Line and Hijackings” published today reported that in the wake of thehijacking of a “New York-to-Chicago airliner” “the dominant view among aviationat the moment is that there is nothing wrong in governments adopting a “policyof toughness in dealing with hijackers” as exemplified by “the Israeli commandoraid that freed hostages at Uganda’s Entebbe Airport earlier this year.”
1976:“Checking Out,” a Broadway play directed by Jerry Adler and starring JoanCopeland, Hy Anzell and Mason Adams opened at the Longacre Theatre tonight.
1977(2ndof Tishrei, 5738): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1978:The Democratic Movement for Change splintered with the different componentsdividing themselves between three other parties.
1979:Sofia Cosma a native of the Smorgon, a shtetl on the border between Latvia andLithuanian took his final turn at the podium when he conducted Concerto No.1 byTchaikovsky today
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/feb/22/local/la-me-sofia-cosma-20110222
1980(4thof Tishrei, 5741): Tzom Gedaliah observed for the last time during thepresidency of Jimmy Carter.
1981:Nigel Lawson ended his service as Financial Secretary to the Treasury and beganserving as Secretary of State for Energy.
1981:For one day, the Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to bd moved from the 92ndStreet Y to the Jewish Museum.
1983:Birthdate of Amy Winehouse
1983:Birthdate of Tel Aviv native and defensive midfielder Moshe Mishaelot who beganplaying for Maccabi Tel Aviv in 2002.
1983:Ninety-three-year-old Ernst Moritz Hess who was Hitler’s commanding officerduring WW I and lost his job as Judge after the passage of the Nazi Nurembergrace law because even though his father was Protestant and he had beenbaptized, he was classified as a Jew, passed away today.
http://jewish-voice-from-germany.de/cms/hitlers-jewish-commander-and-victim/
1983(7thof Tishrei, 5744): Seventy-eight-year-old Vilna native Hyman Bezprozvany, whoin 1922 came to the United States where he gained fame as Hyman B. Bass theYiddish teacher and author who worked tithe Joint Distribution Committee andserved as “national officer with the Workmen’s Circle” passed away today.
1984:Gary Rosenblatt, the editor of the BaltimoreJewish Times, “published an article titled ‘The Simon Wiesenthal Center:State-of-the-art Activism or Hollywood Hype?’ analyzing whether WiesenthalCenter officials were truthful in marketing their Holocaust Museum as anon-sectarian, humanitarian institution in order to receive funding from thestate of California. This article was one of two finalists for the PulitzerPrize in the category of Special Reporting in 1985. The honor marked the firsttime an article in a Jewish publication was cited in the Pulitzer competition.”
1984(17thof Elul, 5744): Ninety-two-year-old Memphis, TN, philanthropist Abe Plough thenative of Tupelo, MS who created a company that eventually becameSchering-Plough Pharmaceuticals of which he was chairman
https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=1064
1985:Premier episode of the Golden Girls.The show was the creation of Jewish television executive BrandonTartikoff. Two of the four leadcharacters in this long running television hit were Jewish – Beatrice Arthurand Estelle Getty.
1985(28thof Elul, 5745): Julian Beck, whose Living Theater expanded the frontiers oftheatrical innovation for nearly 40 years, died of cancer today at the age of60. (As reported by Samuel Freedman)
http://www.nytimes.com/1985/09/17/theater/julian-beck-60-is-dead-founded-living-theater.html
1989:The first Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim’s “Sweeny Todd” opened at theCircle in the Square Theatre.
1989:Seven members of ACT UP, an organization co-founded by Larry Krammer“infiltrated the New York Stock Exchange and chained themselves to the VIPbalcony to protest the high price of the only approved AIDS drug, AZT”
1990:“White Hunter Black Heart,” with a screenplay co-authored by Peter Viertel wasreleased in the United States today.
1990:“Death Warrant” an action movie written by David S. Goyer was released in theUnited States today by MGM.
1992:Today, the New Yorker published Ann Goldstein’s first translation, an essay bythe Italian writer Aldo Buzzi.
1991(6thof Tishrei, 5752): Shabbat Shuva
1991(6thof Tishrei, 5752): Eight days after his 66th birthday, Berlin native Moshe Goshen-Gottstein the “professor ofSemitic linguistic and biblical philology at Hebrew University” and the husbandof clinical psychologist Esther Hepner with whom he had two sons – Alon andYonatan – passed away today.
1993:Yithak Rabin replaced Aryeh Deri as Minister of Internal Affairs.
1993:“A Bronx Tale,” a crime film produced by Jane Rosenthal premiered at theToronto International Film Festival.
1994(9thof Tishrei, 5755): Erev Yom Kippur
1994:Acting Commissioner Bud Selig announced the cancellation of the rest of thebaseball season on the 34th day of a strike by players. Selig is one of anumber of Jews who have found success as executives in the world ofprofessional athletics.
1994:The 46e régiment d'infanterie in the French Army, in which Archaeologist andEgyptologist” Adolphe Joseph Reinach, the son of archaeologist Joseph Reinachand Henriette-Clemintine Reinach and husband of Marguerite Dreyfus, daughter ofMathieu Dreyfus and niece of Alfred Dreyfus, with whom he had a son,Jean-Pierre Reinach was as a “Lieutenant of Cuirassiers in the French Army”when he was killed in 1914 was disbanded today.
1994:“Quiz Show” a movie based on Richard Goodwin’s Remembering America: A VoiceFrom the Sixties co-starring Rob Morrow and featuring Barry Levinson thatdescribes the Quiz Show Scandals and centers around Herb Stempel was releasedtoday by Buena Vista Pictures.
1996(1stof Tishrei, 5757): Rosh Hashanah
1996:In a landmark decision on reproductive rights, Israel's Supreme Court ruledtoday that a childless woman estranged from her husband could have their frozenembryos implanted in a surrogate against the husband's wishes. An 11-memberpanel of judges voted 7-4 that the right of the woman, Ruti Nahmani, to be amother outweighed objections to fatherhood made by Danny Nahmani, the husbandfrom whom she is separated. (As reported by Joel Greenberg)
1997:About 90 headstones at a Jewish cemetery on Staten Island were found overturnedtoday and swastikas had been spray-painted on 5, the police said. Visitors tothe Baron Hirsch Cemetery at 1126 Richmond Avenue in the Graniteville sectionalerted officers to the vandalism with a 911 call about 4:30 P.M., OfficerValerie St. Rose, a police spokeswoman, said the vandalism is beinginvestigated as a bias crime.
1997:The New York Times book sectionfeatured reviews by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interestincluding Alice Hoffman’s 12th novel, Here On Earth and Watching My
Language: Adventures in the Word Trade by William Safire.
2000: Ageneral strike began in Nazareth protesting what they described as "policeincompetence in handling violence and crime" after the murder of a localresident,52-year-old Nabieh Nussier,
2000:U.S. premiere of “Dancing at the Blue Iguana” directed by Michael Radford whoco-authored the script.
2001:“Yasir Arafat angrily rejected tonight any suggestion that Palestinians hadrejoiced over the terrorist attack on the United States on September 11,declaring that the Palestinian reaction was one of identification and notsatisfaction with American suffering.” (As reported by James Bennet)
2001:A surge of violence punctuated by an Israeli tank thrust into a West Bank townthat left eight Palestinians dead today, as well as an Israeli settler shotdead by Palestinian gunmen. Led “Palestinian officials to the Israelis ofstepping up military actions while international attention was focused on theterrorist attacks in New York and Washington.” (As reported by Joel Greenberg)
2002(8thof Tishrei, 5763): Shabbat Shuva
2002:A memorial service was held for Louise Rosenfield Noun, the Grinnell Collegegraduate and social activist “at the Iowa State Historical Building in DesMoines.”
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2003:Pitcher John Grabow made his major league debut with the Pittsburgh Pirates.
2003: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authorsand/or about topics of Jewish interest including Law, Pragmatism andDemocracy by Richard A.Posner and Mad Art: A VisualCelebration of the Art of MAD Magazine and the Idiots Who Create It by Mark Evanier.
2004: “A suicide bomber riding on a bicycle blew himself up at an agriculturalgate” south of Kalanda injuring two.
2005:Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf and Israeli Prime Minister ArielSharon shook hands in an apparent chance encounter in the corridors of theUnited Nations summit Wednesday. The handshake followed a landmark meetingbetween the foreign ministers of Pakistan and Israel last week, the firstformal high-level contact between the Islamic and Jewish states. Pakistan is the world’s second largest Muslimcountry. Israel has sought to improverelations with non-Arab Muslim countries.
2005:“The Israeli cabinet approved, by a 9-1 majority, plans to compensate settlerswho left the Gaza Strip, with only the NRP's Zevulun Orlev opposing. Thegovernment's plan for compensation uses a formula that bases actual amounts onlocation, house size, and number of family members among other factors. Mostfamilies should receive between U.S.$200,000 and 300,000.”
2005:Days after the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza the Palestinian Religious ScholarsSociety issued a fatwa (Islamic religious decree) forbiddingnormalization with Israel. The fatwa came in response to a surprise rulingearlier this week by Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi, head of Egypt's al-Azhar MosqueUniversity, in favor of normalization with Israel.
2005:An opera titled Seven Attempted Escapes From Silence for which Jonathan SafranFoer wrote the libretto premiered at the Berlin State Opera today.
2006(1stof Tishrei, 5757): Rosh Hashanah
2006: Germany took a richly symbolic step in its longjourney of historical reconciliation oas three men became the first rabbisordained in this country since the Holocaust.
2006:Aharon Barak completes his service as President of the Supreme Court of Israel.
2006:“T-Slam” an Israeli rock band founded in 1980 “played a one-off reunion showwith Rami Fortis and Berry Sakharof in Jerusalem.”
2006:Dorit Beinish was appointed the 9th President of the Supreme Courtof Israel making her the first woman to hold this position.
2007(2ndof Tishrei, 5768): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
2007:“Toots” a film about America’s most famous saloon keeper during the 1940’s and1950’s which was directed by his granddaughter Kristi Jacobson opens in NewYork at the Quad City Cinema on the afternoon of the Second Day of RoshHashanah. Ms. Jacobson will be at the Friday night showing of the film.
2007:In “Saggy pants reveal more than underwear” a column by Jill Fields in whichshe discusses current fashion among adolescent males, she writes, “Severaldecades ago, my teenage sister wore ‘hot pants’ to Friday night services atValley Beth Shalom in Encino, California.A congregant complained. RabbiHarold Schulweis later told us he had replied, ‘You should look into her eyes,not what she’s wearing.’”
2008(14thof Elul, 5768): Eight-five-year-old Hyman Goldman who along with hisbrother-in-law Leonard Marsh and Arnold Greenberg founded Snapple, the beveragecompany, passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/business/21golden.html
2008:In Washington, D.C., The Hyman S. & Freda Bernstein Jewish LiteraryFestival opens with "Laughing for God's Sake: Humor in JewishLiterature," featuring interpretive readings by local actors (directed byIan Armstrong) of work by the likes of ShalomAuslander, Faye Moskowitz and NathanEnglander. This event will feature the 10 finalists of the festival'swriting contest
2008:On the occasion of the publication of the full translation of The History of the Yiddish Language the YIVO Institute for JewishResearch presents a symposium where panelists including Neil G. Jacobs, OhioState University; Robert D. King, University of Texas; and Kalman Weiser, YorkUniversity discuss this work by Max Weinreich.
2008: In Vienna, the first festival devoted to Jewish and Israeli music everheld in Austria comes to a close.
2008:The Washington Post book sectionincludes a review of Philip Roth’s latest novel, Indignation.
2008:The Sunday New York Times booksection featured books by Jewish authors and/or on topics of Jewish interestincluding Little Brother by Cory Doctorow, Is There a Right to RemainSilent? Coercive Interrogation and theFifth Amendment After 9/11 byAlan M. Dershowitz and
TheWay of the World: A Story of Truth andHope in an Age of Extremism by Ron Suskind
2009:A special exhibit featuring the work of Will Ronis at this summer’s Rencontres d’Arles photography festival on view inSouthern France comes to an end.
2009: RobertJ. Samuelson, a columnist for both The Washington Post and Newsweek,discusses and signs The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath: The Past andFuture of American Affluence at the Bethesda Library, Bethesda, Md.
2009: IsraelAir Force pilot Captain Asaf Ramon was laid to rest next to his father IlanRamon today, a day after he was killed in a training accident while flying anIsrael Air Force jet
2009: Israelcommemorated the Munich Massacre of 1972 today in a state ceremony attended bypoliticians, athletes and relatives of the fallen. Eleven Israel coaches andathletes and one German policeman were killed in the attack."An entirecountry held its breath and watched, transfixed, as the El Al plane from Munichlanded in our national airport, and out came the surviving athletes, silent andstunned, standing next to their friends who returned in coffins,” said Ministerof Sport Limor Livnat, who spoke as the official government representative atthe ceremony. "The memory of the 11 athletes murdered in Munich is thepillar of fire leading the great camp of the children of light to overwhelmingvictory in their war against the children of darkness,” she said. MichalShahar, whose father Kehat Shorr was among those murdered in the attack, spokeon behalf of the bereaved families. Former Olympic swimmer Yoav Bruck spoke inthe name of Israel's athletes.Tzvi Varshaviack, Chairman of the Israeli OlympicCommittee, said in a speech, “Thirty-seven years have passed since that blackday, and it remains impossible to forget. Since then, Israeli athletes havecontinued to represent the state of Israel with pride and to make remarkableachievements. We will not let terrorism defeat us,” he said. The memory ofthose slain in Munich remains in the Olympic Committee's consciousness, headded. “We will do whatever we can to perpetuate their memories,” he said.
2009: “Ex-Mayor of Memphis Starts Bid for Congress,Invoking Race in Campaign” published today reported that “The black candidate,former Mayor Willie W. Herenton of Memphis, has argued that Tennessee needs ablack voice in its currently all-white delegation. He is running a blisteringcampaign against Representative Steve Cohen, a fellow Democrat who is Jewishwith a precarious hold on the majority black district.” Herenton has attackedCohen by saying “that he does not really think very much of African Americans.” Sidney Chism, a black county commissioner andHerenton’s campaign manager said that “this seat was set aside for people wholook me. (As reported by Robbie Brown)
2010(8th of Tishrei, 5771): Ysrael Seinuk, a structural engineer who madeit possible for many of New York City’s tallest new buildings to withstandwind, gravity and even earthquakes passed away today at the age of 78. (Asreported by Dennis Hevesi)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/01/nyregion/01seinuk.html?_r=0
2010: Eric “Schneiderman was the Democratic Partynominee for New York Attorney General, defeating four other candidates in theDemocratic Primary” today.
2010: Fireflies(Gachliliyot), a filmtied to the Yom Kippur War is scheduled to be shown at The JCC in Manhattan.
2010: Mira Awad, who represented Israel in theEurovision song contest 2009 alongside Noa with the song "There must beanother way" from their duet album carrying the same name, is scheduled toappear at the Winery in New York City.
2010: AhmedJaabari, leader of Hamas' military wing, issued a rare statement todaythreatening a wave of violence intended to derail the ongoingIsraeli-Palestinian peace talks.
2010: Theleaders of Israel and the Palestinian Authority held more than two hours offace-to-face peace talks in this Red Sea resort today, delving into several ofthe core issues that divide the two sides but not breaking an impasse overJewish settlements.
2010: Aroyal box built at the upper level of King Herod's private theater at Herodiumhas been fully unveiled in recent excavations at the archaeological site,providing a further indication of the luxurious lifestyle favored by thewell-known Jewish monarch, the Hebrew University announced in a statementreleased today.
2011: Israeliviolinist Guy Braunstein and Frank Braley are scheduled to perform HannsEisler’s Eisler Duo for Violin & Cello, op. 7 at the 14thJerusalem International Chamber Music Festival.
2011: GaleetDardashti is scheduled to perform a The JCC in Manhattan.
2011: Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman ordered the earlyevacuation of Israel's embassy in Jordan today, over fears of violentanti-Israel protests similar to those which erupted in Cairo last week.
2011: British PrimeMinister David Cameron decided that the UK would not take part in theUN-sponsored Durban III anti-racism conference on September 22 because he didnot want the UK to engage in an event with anti-Semitic association, the JewishChronicle reported today.."
2012: Izhar Patkin’s “The Messiah’s Glass” isscheduled to go on displace at the Jewish Museum.
2012: A revival ofStephen Schwartz’s Tony-Award winning musical Pippin opened at the Kansas CityRepertory Theatre today.
2012: Tom Rothman, “thechairman and executive officer of Fox Filmed Entertainment” resigned today.
2012: U.S. Presidentwished the world's Jews a happy new year today, issuing a video in which hecalled for reconciliation and peace.
2012: As the HighHolidays begin, an argument between Shas and Meretz that has become an annualtradition rears its head yet again: When should daylight saving time end? MKNitzan Horowitz (Meretz) slammed Interior Minister Eli Yishai today, saying theminister promised to pass a law to extend DST by 11 days, but buried it in theShas-controlled Knesset Interior Committee.
2012: Jerusalem policeclashed with hundreds of Muslim youth today after they left prayers atop theTemple Mount in the direction of the Damascus Gate. Police said the rioterswere on their way to the US consulate, presumably to protest against a film denigratingthe Prophet Mohammad, which has already sparked mass protests in Libya, Egyptand Yemen.
2013(10th ofTishrei, 5774): Yom Kippur
2013: While being heldcaptive by ISIS, Steven Sotloff, who would eventually be beheaded secretly“fasted on Yom Kippur, by feigning illness.”
2013: Due thecataclysmic flooding that has hit parts of Colorado including Boulder, home ofthe University of Colorado, Yom Kippur services will not be held in the Chabadsynagogue according to Rabbi Yisroel Wilhelm
2013(10th ofTishrei): In Cedar Rapids, Iowa Ilan Caplan keeps alive an unbroken streakdating back to the 19th century and the founding of Beth Jacob byleading traditional Yom Kippur Services.
2013: Prime MinisterBinyamin Netanyahu's office had no comment tonight on the new US-Russianagreement on destroying Syria's chemical weapons stores, as Israel awaits thearrival of US Secretary of State John Kerry on tomorrow (As reported by HerbKeinon)
2013: “A four-year-oldgirl accidently drowned in a mikveh in Bnei Barak today, on what was otherwisea relatively quiet Yom Kippur in terms of medical emergencies.”
2014: The CongregationOlam Tikvah Sisterhood and Men's Club are scheduled to host a talk by MERCAZUSA's Executive Director Rabbi Golub on "Promoting Jewish Pluralism in aChanging Israeli Society"
2014:“The Good and the True,” a Holocaust based play is scheduled to have its finalperformance at the DR2 Theatre in Manhattan.
2014:The Jewish Women’s Archives is scheduled to celebrate its 18thanniversary by honoring Gail Twersky Reimer, the founding executive director.
2014:The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington is scheduled to host awalking tour of Jewish Old Town Alexandria tracing the start of a communitythat dates back to the 1850’s.
2014:The New York Times features reviewsof books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readersincluding Thirteen Days In September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at CampDavid by Lawrence Wright, World Order by Henry Kissinger and The MonogramMurders by Sophie Hannah as well as an interview with Sara Paretsky, the authorof the V.I. Warshawski novels.
2014:Today is the European Day of Jewish Culture.
2014:“The oldest book of Jewish liturgy, dating back to the ninth century, was enroute to Israel today, and will be on display at the Bible Lands Museum inJerusalem until late October.”
2014:”TheIDF will hand down a “sharp and clear punishment” to members of Unit 8200 whoare refusing to serve in West Bank missions, IDF spokesman Moti Almoz saidtoday.” (As reported by Spencer Ho)
2014:Following his surpise appearance at Lady Gaga’s Tel Aviv concert last night,Tony Bennett performed on his own in Tel Aviv
2015(1stof Tishrei, 5776) Rosh Hashanah
2015(1stof Tishrei, 5776): Sixty-four-year-old Alexander Levlovitz died in the earlyhours this morning “after he lost control of the car he was driving came underattack from rock-throwing attackers in East Talpiot, Jerusalem.
2015:British Labour MP Lucian Berger began serving as the Shadow Minister for MentalHealth today.
2015:Based on previous statements made by Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, he will lobbyCongress to reject the Iran deal, but today, “when he stands before hiscongregation to welcome the New Year, he will not mention Congress, Iran ornuclear weapons.”
2015(1stof Tishrei, 5776): Seventiethanniversary of the first celebration of the Jewish New Year in Vienna since theAnschluss in 1938 at the Statdt Temple.Before the war Vienna had been home to almost 200,000 Jews who supportedalmost 100 Jewish houses of worship. TheStadt was the only building to survive and the city’s Jewish population hadbeen reduced to approximately 3,500.
2015:An unidentified “young Israeli man was lightly wounded by rock-throwers inJerusalem” in what was assumed to be another attack by Palestinian Arabs.
2015:“Two people – a policeman and a young Jewish man – were hurt this morning asclashes resumed at the Temple Mount for the second consecutive day during whichnine people were arrested.”
2016:Benjamin Goodman, Philip Solomonick, and Tomer Gewirtzman, Piano Yuval Herz andBarak Shossberger, Violin, Shmuel Katz, Viola and Oded Hadar, Cello arescheduled to perform at Carnegie Hall as part of the Young Israeli Artists inNYC series.
2016:In the early hours of the day (Israeli time), Shimon Peres’s office said he wasin serious but stable condition” after having suffered a stroke yesterday.
2017:Shir Chadash, the only Conservative Congregation in the Greater New Orleansarea is scheduled to host” Zemer Atik: Ancient Meoldies.”
2017:Members of the family of Shimon Peres, “world leaders and state and businessleaders attended this morning’s ceremony at Mount Herzl Cemetery” marking theone year anniversary of the Jewish leader.
2017:In Jerusalem, Night Stroll 2017 is scheduled to include “Vincent’s Travels inthe Holy Land.”
2017:In London, JW3 is scheduled to host the final screening of ”Bogdan’s Journey, aheartbreaking account of the pogrom that took place in the town of Kielce,Poland in July 1946 is scheduled to premiere in Manchester, UK
2017:The Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines is scheduled to host a screening of“Menahse.”
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/menashe-2017
2018: The Bezalel ArtFair is scheduled to take place between 10 am and 4 pm today in Jerusalem.
2018:As Hurricane Florence strikes along the Carolinas, Ariela Davis,the Director ofJudaics at Addlestone Hebrew Academy and the Rebbetzin of Brith Sholom BethIsrael, the historic shul of downtown Charleston, South Carolina is scheduledto ride out the storm in South Carolina coastal city.
2018:“The Columbus Dispatch reported todaythat Les Wexner had renounced his affiliation with the Republican Party due tochanges in its nature.”
2019(14thof Elul, 5779): Parashat Ki Taytzay;
2019:At Vanderbilt University, the Jewish Studies Program is scheduled to co-sponsor“A Short History of Anger – the Destruction of Smyrna.
https://as.vanderbilt.edu/jewishstudies/events/destruction-of-smyrna/
2019:In Jerusalem, the International Convention Center is scheduled to host “TheDire Straits Experience.”
2019:Beitar Jerusalem is scheduled to play Hapoel Haifa at Teddy Stadium inJerusalem.
2019:In Columbus, OH, this afternoon following services, Congregation TiferethIsrael is scheduled to host the “Israel Discussion Group.”
2019:As Jews chew on their Cholent, they can look back on a week that included atragic synagogue fire in Duluth, the announcement by Prime Minister Netanyahu,just days before the election, that he will annex significant parts of theso-called West Bank and reports that Israel was behind the placement of“spyware” near the White House…and that is just the tip of the iceberg.
2020:The Combined Jewish Philanthropies is scheduled to host online a “CommunityRosh Hashanah Seder” in which local presenters will “highlight a series offoods that represent different aspiration of the New Year.”
2020:Temple Emanu El “Men’s Book Group is scheduled to discuss The Map thatChanged the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology by SimonWinchester.
2020:Rabbi Allie Fischman of URJ Camp Newman is scheduled to lead “Apple and HoneyDays,” a family friendly event.
2020:An online exhibition hosted by the Breman Museum, “A Jazz Memoir” featuring thephotography of Herb Snitzer is scheduled to open today.
2020:Israelis prepare to deal with a shutdown that starts September 17, erev RoshHashanah during which during which “movement is restricted to 500 meters fromhome, private sector work places are to close to the public, public sector isto continue under limitations, restaurants, commerce are banned, schools closedand congregation is limited to no more than 10 people indoors and 20 outside.”(As reported by Itamar Eichner and Adir Yanko)
2021:Congregation Sha’ar Zahav’s disability and accessibility committee and hinenicaring community are scheduled to sponsor online “You Don’t Have to beMiserable: Finding Accessible Alternatives to Yom Kippur Tradition” apresentation especially for those who can’t fast stand for long periods orspend hours upon hours in synagogue.”
2021:The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host Eleanor Bergstein as shediscusses the screenplay she wrote for the iconic film “Dirty Dancing.”
2021:The Jewish Heritage Center is scheduled to present online Lucy Adlington, theauthor of The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women WhoSewed to Survive.
2022:The JFCS Holocaust Center and the JewishCommunity Library are scheduled to present UC Davis history professor KathrynOlmsted as she discusses how the most powerful press barons in the U.S. andU.K. worked together to pressure their governments to ignore and minimize theNazi threat through their news coverage, editorials and (in some cases)pro-fascist propaganda that they publish.
2022:Lockdown University is scheduled to host a webinar with Patrick Bade lecturingon “Jenny Lind: The Swedish Nightingale – Felix Mendelssohn: A RomanticRelationship.”
2022:The Streicker Center is scheduled to host “KOOLULAM: ONE SONG, ONE VOICE, ONEUNIQUE EXPERIENCE.”
https://streicker.nyc/events/koolulam
2022:The American Sephardi Institute is scheduled to present journalist, Sephardichistorian and cookbook authorSarina Roffé who will share recipes and discuss the foodsunique to Syrian Jews on Rosh Hashanah.
2023: Lockdown University isscheduled to host a lecture by Trudy Gold and Lady Milena-Grenfell Baines on“The Case of Nicholas Winton: A Hero and a Rescuer.”
2023: The Oscar J. TolmasCharitable Trust is scheduled to sponsor the JNOLA Rosh Hashana Toast in NewOrleans.
2023: Rabbi Feivel andCantor Abbie are scheduled to lead the morning minyan at Temple Judea.
2023: The Museum at EldridgeStreet is scheduled to host a walking tour of the Lower East Side whereparticipants can virtually and follow in the footsteps of Ella, Henny, Sarah,Charlotte, and Gertie, the adorable sisters depicted in All-of-a Kindthe first book of the iconic series.
2024: In Palo Alto, CA, thisevening, the Oshman Family JCC is scheduled to host “Chef, food writer and critic Ruth Reichl discusses herlife’s work and her new book, Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir,chronicling her groundbreaking tenure as editor-in-chief at the influentialfood and cooking magazine.”
2024: Lockdown University isscheduled to host a lecture by Professor David Peimer on “The Great Directors:Spielberg, Part 2.”
2024: At Beth Joseph Congregation/RebiboCenter, in Phoenix, AZ , after davening Joel Haber is scheduled to deliver alecture on “Chulent & Hamin: The Stew with 1000 Flavors” following in theevening by an informal discussion for teens on “What Makes a Food Jewish?”
2024(11th of Elul, 5784):Parashat Ki Taytzay (When you will go out)
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2024:As September 14th 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 344 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)
