#ourCOG This Day, March 8, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
This Day, March 8, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
March 8
1126: Alfonso VII is
proclaimed king of Castile and Leon, after the death of his mother Urraca.
Under the reign of Alfonso Christian Spain “became a refuge for the persecuted
Andalusian Jews. The capital city of Toledo
became a new center for Jewish learning.
The major reason for this positive turn of fortune for the Jews was the
king’s positive relationship with Yehuda Ibn-Ezra. After taking the fortress of Calatrava, the
king appointed Ibn-Ezra as its commander as a reward for his bravery. Ibn-Ezra used his influence to create a
refuge for the Jews who were fleeing Almohades, a religiously fervent Berber
Moslem dynasty that had crossed into Spain after successful conquests in parts
of North Africa. Those who equate the Golden Age of Spain with Moslem rule
would do well to remember that life for the Jews was much more varied than
that.
1255: King Przemysl
Ottocar II of Austria renewed the charter granting favorable rights to his
Jewish subjects.
1466: Francisco
Sforza of Milan, the founder of the Sforza dynasty who in 1452 “defied Pope
Pious II’s order to tax the Jews of the duchy one-fifth of the value of their
possessions in order to finance the crusade against the Turks, passed away
today.”
1607: A complaint was
filed today by the Inquisition “against Jorge de Almeida, a Portuguese
domiciled in the City of Mexico, husband of Dona Lenor de Andrada” who had been
convicted of observing Mosaic law” which makes her a Jewess.
1688: On this night a
large group of secret Jews planned to escape from the island of Majorca by
booking passage on an English ship. They were looking for religious freedom. A
storm delayed their departure, and their plan was betrayed. All those planning
to leave were put in prison. In the spring of 1691 these prisoners were
sentenced at an auto-de-fe, where 37 were burned at the stake.
1702: King William II
of England passed away today. Antonio Lopez Suasso, later Baron Avernes de Gras
had provided financing for William who had been Prince of Orange to take the
English throne. In 1700 William knighted Solomon de Medina who had served as an
army contractor making him the first Jew to be so honored.
1712: At Carr End in
Yorkshire, England John Foterhgill and “his first wife Margaret Hough” gave
birth to Dr. John Fothergill who sought solace in the suffering of the
Friends or Quakers by comparing them to the Jews as can be seen when he wrote
“John Pemberton during the American Revolution that he often reflects “on the
history of the Jewish people with humbling admiration” and that their
sufferings affords “instructive lessons.”
1731: In Mladá
Boleslav, David Brandeis a Jewish shopkeeper who had been accused of poising a
local Christian printer with plum jam was released today after the accusation
was proven to be untrue.
http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Mlada_Boleslav
1739: Isaac De Paz
advertised his wares in Charles Town, SC today.
1754(14th
of Adar, 5514): Purim
1757: Jacob Pinto and
Thankful Pinto gave birth to Abraham Pinto today.
1762: In Buchau,
Franziska Levi and David Einstein gave birth to Jacob David Einstein.
1766: In the
Netherlands, on the day when Prince William V reached his majority, Jews held
services of Thanksgiving as sign of their on-going support for the monarch who
was not universally popular.
1768: In the Netherlands, synagogues held services
of thanks-giving on the day that “King William V entered the legislature on the
day of his majority.” “Under the government of William V the country was
troubled by internal dissensions; the Jews, however, remained loyal to him” and
William did not forget the loyalty of his Jewish subjects.
1773(13th
of Adar, 5533): Ta’anit Esther
1773: In the evening,
Rabbi Raphael Hayyim Isaac Caregal attended Purim services at the synagogue in
Newport, RI, with Ezra Stiles, the future President of Yale who described him
as being “dressed in a red garment with the usual Phylacteries and habiliments,
the white silk Surplice; he wore a high fur cap, had a long beard. He has the
appearance of an ingenious and sensible man”
1777(29th
of Adar I, 5537): Parashat Vahakhel; Shabbat Shekalim
1777: As the Jewish
people observed their day of rest, “American troops under the command of
Brigadier General William Maxwell defeated the British at Amboy, New Jersey.”
1789: Birthdate of Coswig-on-the
Elbe “German educator and writer Ephraim Solomon Unger” who studied at the
University of Erfurt, founded in 1820 “together with
his brother David, a school for mathematics and modern languages” and who refused
to convert to Christianity so he could become a school principal.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/14580-unger-ephraim-solomon
1792(14th
of Adar, 5551): Purim
1792: Birthdate of
Brumath,bas-rhin,France native Jacques Goudchaux who married Barbe Levi, with
whom he had 9 children, in 1813 and then married Rosette Kahn with whom he had
11 children, in 1834 before finally
marrying Marie Metger in 1852 with whom he had one child, Marie Goudchaux.
1794: Madel and Jakob
Loew Feuchtwanger gave birth to Esther Feuchtwanger, the wife of Isaac Fraenkel
with whom she had five children.
1798(20th
of Adar, 5558): Thirty-four-year-old Hannah Isaacs, the daughter of Jacobs
Isaacs and the wife of Jacob Philipps whom she married in 1785 passed away
today in Martinique.
1799(1st of Adar II,
5559): Rosh Chodesh Adar II
1799: In Maytown, PA,
Charles Cameron and his wife gave birth to Simon Cameron who as Secretary of
War at the outset of the Civil War complied with law by not allowing Michael
Allen, a Jew, to serve as the chaplain for the unit known as Cameron’s Dragoons
which had been named for Cameron and which had a large contingent of Jews from
Philadelphia in its ranks and leadership.
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/jewish-chaplains-in-the-civil-war/
1800(11th
of Adar, 5560): Parashat Tetzaveh; Shabbat Zachor observed for the first time
in the 19th century.
1803(14th
of Adar, 5563): Purim
1804: Birthdate of
Bishopgate, London, native Sara Eliza Henriques, the wife of Kingston, Jamaica
native Joseph Gutteres Henriques and the mother of Frederick and Alfred
Henriques.
1807: In France, the
Great Sanhedrin presented its conclusions at its final session.
1816: In Whitechapel,
London, Hanna and Abraham Harris gave birth to Henry Harris
1817: In New York, the Stockbrokers Guild formerly
incorporates itself and becomes the New York Stock Exchange. Among the founders were several prominent
Jewish financiers including Benjamin Seixas, Isaac Gomez, Alexander Zuntz and
Ephraim Hart. Ephraim Hart’s son’
Bernhard, became Secretary of the NYSE.
Bernhard was also the grandfather of writer Bret Harte.
1817: Joseph Jonas the first Jew to settle in
Cincinnati, Ohio arrived in the Queen City today. He was an English-born peddler who had come
from Philadelphia, PA. “He became a successful watchmaker and silversmith and
lived on Broadway between Fifth Street and Harrison. Jonas, like most early
Jews, settled in downtown Cincinnati. Jonas wrote letters describing the
opportunities that existed in the Ohio River valley. This convinced other Jews
to join him including two younger brothers. In 1821, when Benjamin Lieb was
dying, he begged to be buried as a Jew. He was the first Jew to die in
Cincinnati. In response to his request, Joseph Jonas and Morris Moses, two of
Cincinnati’s six Jews, purchased the lot for Cincinnati’s first Jewish cemetery
from Nicholas Longworth for $75.00, and then buried Lieb there. This cemetery
known as the Old Jewish Community, or the Chestnut Street Cemetery is the
oldest Jewish cemetery west of the Alleghenies. By 1824 there were enough
Jewish residents to fulfill the requirement of ten adult males so that regular
religious services could be held, and the first Jewish congregation beyond the
Allegheny Mountains was established. This congregation became the Rockdale
Temple. Most of the early Jews were British.”
1825: Birthdate of
Salomon Kohn, the son of Prague merchant who traded in his business career in
1873 for the world of literature.
1826: This evening,
in Charleston, SC, Isaac Soria of New York married Hetty Cohen, “the daughter
of Moses Cohen.
1830: Birthdate of
German Jewish jurist Hermann Makower who was also a leader of the Berlin Jewish
community.
1831: Birthdate of
French photographer Félix Bonfils who created one of the first modern
photographic records of the Middle East including Palestine including the Wall
of the Second Temple.
1832: Jacob de Pass was named to be a Magistrate and
Assistant Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Parish Port Royal.
1832: Nathan Solomons married Deborah Abrahams today
in the UK.
1840(3rd of Adar II, 5600):
Fifty-nine-year-old Leser Lazarus Ochsenhorn, the husband of Nanette Wexler
with whom he had eight children passed away today in Bavaria.
1841: Birthdate of future Baltimore resident
Jeannette Weil Oettinger, the wife Henry Oettinger.
1841:” A general thanksgiving service” was held
today “in the Synagogue of Spanish Portuguese Jews (Bevis Marks) “to
commemorate the success which attended Sir Moses Montefiore in his mission to
the East.”
1842: One day after she had passed away, Ann (Levy)
Simmons the wife of Joshua Simmons and mother of Simeon, Julia and Barnett
Joshua Simmons was buried today “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.”
1852: Caroline Davis and Levy Jacobs gave birth to
Walter Jacobs.
1857: Today
one of the first real organized actions of women’s solidarity took place in New
York City when hundreds of women staged a strike against the garment and
textile factories in New York City, protesting low wages, long working hours
and inhumane working conditions. This
strike, which undoubtedly included Jewish workers took place 54 years before
the Triangle Shirt Factory Fire.
1857: Reverend
Charles Harris, “a Christian Jew” is scheduled to preach twice today
at the John Street First M.E. Church in New York City. [The Jews for Jesus
concept obviously was not a 20th century phenomenon.]
1860(14th
of Adar): As war clouds loom in the United States, celebration of Purim
1860: Sir Saul Samuel
completed his term as 6th Treasurer of New South Wales
1863: In London
“Julius L. Sterner, a German-born American citizen” pursuing business
opportunities in the UK and Sarah Steiner gave birth to Albert Edward Sterner,
a student at Julien’s Academy and Ecole des Beuaz Arts who came to the United
States in 1881 where he pursued a career as an “artist, scene painter and
lithographer.”
1864: In Lomza, Wolff
Bernard and Goldie (Berant) Lasker gave birth to Hyman M. Lasker, the rabbi of
Beth Israel in Troy, NY and the grandfather of Harold I Saperstein, the Rabbi
at Temple Emanu-El in Lynbrook, NY and the husband of Sarah Roberts.
https://kevarim.com/rabbi-chaim-mordechai-lasker/
1866: Two days after
he had passed away, 40-year-old Solomon Emanuel, the son of Uzziel Emanuel and
Jane Solomonson, the husband of Phoebe Benjamin and the father of Jeanette,
Elizabeth, Esther and Mark Emanuel was buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham
Road) Jewish Cemetery.”
1866: In Hungary,
Joseph Rosenberg and his wife gave birth to Armin Rosenberg who served as the
Cantor of Beth Israel in Philadelphia before serving Congregation Beth Israel
in Brooklyn, NY,
1868(14th
of Adar, 5628): Purim observed as U.S. Grant begins his run for the presidency.
1870(5th
of Adar II, 5630): Julia Goldsmid passed away today at Nervi near Genoa.
1871(15th
of Adar, 5631): Shushan Purim
1871: A review of The
Recovery of Jerusalem: A Narrative of Exploration in the City and the Holy
Land” by two legendary British officers, Captains Wilson and Warren, who, among
other accomplishments, conducted the first modern mapping of the ancient Jewish
capital was published today.
1871: “The Purim
Festival” published today described the history of the holiday as well as local
observances including the celebrations at the Asylum for the Aged and Infirm,
the Orphans’ Home and the Industrial Home on West 17th Street.
1872: In Camden, AR, 33-year-old
Bina Simon and 39-year-old David Felsenthal gave birth to future New Orleans
resident Jacob Felsenthal.
1872: Four years
after Abraham Oppenheim had been ennobled, German-Jewish banker Gerson von
Bleichröder and his family were made Prussian nobles; making them the second
Jewish family to have been so honored.
1873: Hanchen and
Zadock Greenbaum gave birth to New York Sigmund Greenbaum and the husband of
Fanny Greenbaum with whom he had five children – Herbert, Helen, William, Paul
and Dorothy.
1874: In
Münstereifel, Germany, Rabbi Joseph Kahn and his wife Rosalie who would raise
their family in Detroit, gave birth to Julius Kahn, the University of Michigan
trained engineer who invented “the Kahn System, a reinforced concrete
engineering technique for building construction.
1874: “The Prince of
Printers” published today traces the history of printing in Italy including the
rise of the printers of Soncino who were the first to print texts using Hebrew
letters. Although they would set up presses at other locations, they always
used the name of their hometown which they adopted as their family name.
1875(1st
of Adar II, 5635): Rosh Chodesh Adar II
1875: It was reported
that next week’s Hebrew Charity Ball will include music supplied by two bands
and a supper catered by Delmonico’s served at the Academy of Music.
1875: In Chicago,
Sarah Vogel and Nelson Morris gave birth to Yale educated diplomat and author
Ira Nelson Morris, the husband of Constance Lily Rothschild who was the
“Minister Plenipotentiary of U.S. to Sweden from 1914 to 1922.
1876(12th
of Adar, 5636): Fifty-eight-year-old Susan Freiberg, the Bavarian born wife of
Lazarus Fels and the mother of Abraham Fels, passed away today.
1877: The Hebrew
Lodge, Number 5 of the International Order of B’nai Brit is sponsoring a
fundraiser at the Steinway Hall tonight to aid those who suffered loss in the
recent fire in Brooklyn. Entertainment
will include vocalists and violinists.
1877: In Eichstetten,
Leopold Bloch, the son of Samuel and Jeanette Bloch and Babette Bloch gave
birth to Jakob Bloch.
1879: Birthdate of
Otto Hahn.
In 1944, he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering the fission of
heavy nuclei, which made the atomic bomb possible.
1879: It was reported today that the Young
Men’s Hebrew Association of Harlem are sponsoring a Purim Calico Ball which
will be held on the day that coincides with Shushan Purim.
1879: The Young Men’s Hebrew Association of
Manhattan will host its fourth annual Purim celebration at the Lexington Avenue
Opera House.
1880: The Cincinnati Southern Railroad, of which
Philip Heidelbach was one of the first trustees, “opened for passenger service”
today.
1881: The town of Seligman, MO, which was named
for Joseph Seligman, was incorporated today.
1882: Abraham Aarons married Miriam Solomons
today in London.
1883: Nissim and Mozelle Ezra gave birth Dinah
Ezra who was buried in the Happy Valley Jewish Cemetery in Hong Kong when she
passed away two months after her sixth birthday.
1884: Birthdate of Breslau
born “neo-Hegelian philosopher” Richard Kroner whose “Jewish ancestry led him
to be ‘suspended’ (dismissed) under Nazi legislation in 1934, from his
university position at Kiel.”
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv5rf3cb
https://archives.cjh.org/repositories/5/archival_objects/1018737
1887: “In the history of the religious life of
the Israelites of” the United States “there was never expressed in the midst of
the Jewish people such deep-felt grief and sorrow over the death of a public
man as over the death of Henry Ward Beecher” the 73-year-old social reformer
and abolitionist clergyman who passed away today and was eulogized by Rabbi
David Phillipson of Cincinnati.
1888: In Albany, NY, Libbie Slawsky and
Lawrence Goldberg gave birth to Albany Law School trained attorney William
Goldberg, the husband of Leona N. Kaufman and from 1925 to 1926 the general
manager of the Manhattan Knitting Mills in NYC who returned to practice law in
Albany where he was chairman of the board of the YMHA and YWHA Board of Albany
and vice president of the Unconditional Republican Club of Albany.
1890: “The charity ball of the Hebrew
Benevolent Society of Long Island City took place tonight at Ahler’s Astoria
Assembly Rooms.
1891: “Palestine for the Jews” published today
described the plan “advocated by prominent men of the leading cities” including
such philo-Semites as Yale Professor Charles Toten “to obtain in a peaceable
way” the “old homes in Palestine for Jews through… an international
conference.”
1891: “Electric Light In The Holy Land”
published today relied on information that first appeared in the Pall Mall
Gazette to described the introduction of electric light at a new flour mill
located near the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem.
1891(28th of Adar I, 5651: Seventy-year-old
Benjamin Feuerstein, a clothing cutter, passed away while riding the elevated
on his way to a meeting of a Jewish charitable society.
1891: Birthdate of American film and television
actor Sam Jaffee. His film career
included the role of Gunga Din in the movie of the same name and “Doc”, the
criminal mastermind in the film noire classic “The Asphalt Jungle.” His film career came to a halt as a result of
the infamous blacklist. He returned to
acting as the wise old Dr.Zorba in the television medical melodrama “Ben
Casey.”
1892: As public health workers in New York cope
with the latest outbreak of typhus, 20-year-old Sarah Koslofsky who was living
in a tenement occupied by 18 Jewish families was taken to the hospital after
she was found to suffering with the fever.
Thirteen-year-old Baruch Stelson who was also found to be suffering from
the disease was taken to the facility at North Brother Island.
1892: Birthdate of New York native and Oregon
resident Benjamin Cohen, the husband of Anna Klein Cohen and the father of
Gerald Robert Cohen.
1893: In Wheeling, West Virginia, General
Morris Horkheimer, a leading wool merchant and the German born son of Babette
and Simon Horkheimer and his wife Cecilia Horkheimer gave birth to Florence M.
Horkheimer.
1893(20th of Adar, 5653): Marie Weil
Desbecker, the wife of Samuel Desbecker and mother of Emelia, Benjamin, David,
Nathan, Daiel, Joseph, Clara, Sigmund and Desbecker passed away today in
Buffalo, NY.
1894: “Benny” Weiss” saw Wardman Jeremiah Levy
and Charles Krumm shake hands but did not see an exchange of any money.
1894: Birthdate of Chicago native and WW I Navy
veteran Salem N. Baskin, the advertising executive and one-time head of the
Baskin Clothing Store who raised two daughters and one son, Mark, with his wife
Bess Baskin.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1947/07/05/87775983.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1894: Photographer Emil Mayer, the Bohemian
born son of Leopold and Anna Mayer was baptized “under the name of Robert Emil.
1894: “Brooklyn Bridge Trustees” published
today described Senator Cantor’s objection “to removing men from office upon
charges of dishonesty unless the charges were shown to be true.”
1894: “Mr. Ainsworth Makes an Apology to the
Hebrews” published today described New York Assemblyman Ainsworth’s public
recantation of his use of the term “Jew pawnbrokers’ claiming that he spoke
hastily during the debate on reforming pawn-brokering “and did not think of my
Hebrew brethren on the floor of the house.”
1895: “Unparalleled” published today, relying
on information first appearing in the Cincinnati Tribune described the United
as “perfect in a religious way” because it is the only country on earth where
“a Hebrew Mayor” could “call for the troops to keep the Catholics and
Protestants from getting into a riot.”
1896: “Rabbi Morais’s Anniversary” published
today described plans for the upcoming celebration of Dr. Sabato Morais’s 45th
anniversary as the Rabbi of Philadelphia’s Congregation Mikve Israel.
1896: Birthdate of Otto Heller, the Prague born
English cinematographer Otto Heller.
1896: Birthdate of Joseph Bernbaum, the native
of Stopnica, Poland native who came to Canada in 1918, joined the Jewish Legion
in 1918 and who “left Toronto with first group of volunteers and served in
Palestine with the 39th Royal Fusiliers.
1897(4th of Adar II, 5657):
Frederick C. Salomon passed away. A
native of Prussia where he trained as a surveyor, Salomon moved to Wisconsin
where he worked as a surveyor, registrar of deed and chief engineer on a local
railroad. At the outbreak of the Civil
War, he joined the Union Army where he served with such distinction that he
rose to the rank of Major General (Brevet) by the time he mustered out in 1865. After the war he served as the Surveyor
General of Utah Territory and settled in Salt Lake City where he passed away.
1897: Maurico Jacobs, a native of Peru who has
been living in Cuba for the last 12 years has applied to the United Hebrew
Charities for assistance for himself and his family.
1897: “Welcomes the Controversy” published today
described Temple Emanu-El’s Rabbi Gottheil response to Reverend Lyman Abbot’s
claims about the Bible including the charge that the Book of Psalms was not
theological because it was written in poetry.
1898(14th of Adar, 5658): Purim
1898(14th of Adar, 5658):
Sixty-eight-year-old Moses Bruckheimer, a pawnbroker living in Brooklyn passed
away today. He was active in the Jewish community serving as trustee of Temple
Beth Elohim and the Hebrew Orphan Asylum.
1899: At the annual diplomatic dinner given by
the Emperor of Germany Today, the Kaiser looked “robust,” having “fully
recovered from the effects of his Palestine” trip where he sought to strengthen
the German role in the Ottoman Empire.
1899: In Albany, State Senator Elsberg
introduced a bill “authorizing the consolidation of the Education Alliance and
the Hebrew Free School Association of New York City.
1899: At the Bloomingdale Church in Manhattan
Dr. Madison C. Peters will deliver a lecture on “Justice to the Jew,” “which is
intended to refute popular fallacies and prove that the movements of
civilization have hung upon the Jew.”
“Dr. Peters claims that he will show that the Jew is in the front rank
as patriot, lawyer, statesman, scientist, philosopher, artist, dramatist, poet,
physician, musician, mathematician, astronomer, actor, discoverer, philologist,
physiologist – in every department of human activity.”
1900: Ray Emanuel, the daughter of David and
Amelia Emanuel married Joseph Jewell at the Central Synagogue.
1901: In Jackson, TN, Memphis merchant and
philanthropist Jacob C. Felsenthal, the Kentucky born son of Bina and Marcus
Felsenthal and his wife Cecilia Felsenthal gave birth to Marcus Stanley
Felsenthal
1902: Birthdate of Bernard Irvin “B.I,”
Greenhut who served as Mayor of Pensacola, FL from 1965 through 1967.
1903: At Temple Beth-El in New York, Rabbi
Schulman delivered the opening prayer and Leo N. Levi delivered the main
address at the celebration marking the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of
District Grand Lodge No. 1, Independent Order of B’nai B’rith.
1904: It was reported that Tobias Abraham has
purchased “a four-story flat” at 1458 Brooks Avenue, on the “northeast corner
of St. Paul’s Place.
1905(1st of Adar II, 5665): Rosh
Chodesh Adar II
1905(1st of Adar II, 5665):
Sixty-three-year-old Theresa Wile the wife of Levi Adler and the mother of
Harvard trained attorney Isaac Adler the mayor of Rochester, NY and the husband
of Cora Barner.
1905: In New York, Rebecca (née Green) and Dr.
Isidore L. Marrow gave birth to psychologist Dr. Alfred J. Marrow, the husband
of Monette Marrow and father of Paul Bennett Marrow and Marjorie Samberg.
http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=buy.optionToBuy&id=2005-09571-002
1906(11th of Adar, 5666): Fast of Esther
observed since the 13th of Adar falls on Shabbat.
1906: In New York City, Rebecca (née Green) and
Dr. Isidore L. Marrow gave birth to Alfred J. Marrow “American industrial
psychologist, executive, civil rights leader, and philanthropist.”
1906: Po’alei Zion was organized underground in
Poltava, Russia
1907: The independent Order of B’nai B’rith has
joined the Jews of Cleveland in their campaign “to force the distasteful figure
of Shakespeare’s Shylock out of the public schools.”
1908: The Federation of Rumanian Jews in
America was founded
1908(5th of Adar II, 5668): Adolph Meyer, a
native of Natchez, Mississippi, who served as a member of the House of
Representatives from Louisiana, passed away today.
1908: In Australia, the future Sir John Monash “was
promoted to lieutenant-colonel in the intelligence corps” after which “he was
given command of the 13th Infantry brigade in 1912.
1908: Miss Dora Brachman married Louis Ginsberg
in Marietta, Ohio where they will make their home.
1909(15th of Adar, 5669): Shushan
Purim
1909: William Howard Taft, whom B’nai B’rith
gave “a gold medal for trying to improve the lives of Russian Jews” and who was
an outspoken critic of Henry Ford’s anti-Semitism, began serving his one term
as President of the United States.
1910: Two days after he passed away,
63-year-old Zygmnunt Wartski, the native of Kalisch, Russia, was buried today
in Vienna.
1910: Birthdate of Louis “Lulu” Bender, “an
all-American basketball player at Columbia whose stellar play during the
Depression helped popularize the game and make Madison Square Garden a magnet
for college basketball…” (As reported by Vincent M. Mallozzi)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/sports/basketball/13bender.html
1911: International Women’s Day is launched in
Copenhagen, Denmark, by Clara Zetkin, leader of the Women’s Office for the
Social Democratic Party. Born Clara Eissner, she married a Russian Jewish
socialist leader named Ossip Zetkin.
1911: Today, Talmud student turned American artist
Jacob Binder, the Kreslava, Russia born son of Aaron Binder and Elle Judin whose portrait the “Talmudist” is in the permanent
collection of the Boston Fine Arts Museum married Rose Bessin.
1912(19th of Adar, 5672): Seventy-six-year-old
Colonel Isaac Hirsch, the former Mayor of Chillicothe, MO, passed away today.
1912:
Birthdate of Seymour Louis Stark, the Brooklyn native who played college
football at Syracuse before turning pro and playing for the Boston Redskins in
1935.
1912:
The Greek town of Zante was devastated by an earthquake. The Jewish
quarter was destroyed, and more than 100 Jewish families are homeless.
1912: Marco Besso of Trieste and Errea
Cavalieri of Ferrara were both elected as Senators in Italy.
1913(29th of Adar I, 5673): Parashat
Pekudi and Shabbat Shekalim
1913: Seventy-three-year-old Leon Israel, “the
manager of the first Italian grand opera company to appear in Chicago” passed
away today at his home on Calumet Avenue.
1913: William Howard Taft, whom B’nai B’rith
gave “a gold medal for trying to improve the lives of Russian Jews” and who was
an outspoken critic of Henry Ford’s anti-Semitism completed his term in office
as President of the United States.
1914: Birthdate of Yakov Borisovich Zel’dovich
who played a key role in the development of nuclear weapons for the Soviet
Union.
1914: Boris Grabelsky, the Russian born son of
Esther and David Grabelsky who in 1904 came to the United States where he was treasurer
of “Dos Yiddishe Folk” and a member of the Z.O.A married Bathsheba Friedberg
today in New Yok City.
1914: Mrs. Simon Baruch hosted a party at her
home today for twenty-one Italian children from the Bronx as part of an attempt
to combat anarchist propaganda and to the immigrant children a sense of
American history and patriotism. Mrs.
Baruch is the wife of Dr. Simon Baruch.
They are the parents of Bernard Baruch.
1915: In Washington, DC, “Count von Bernstorff,
the German Ambassador, issued a statement today declaring that tolerance toward
all religious beliefs had been displayed by the Turkish Government and that the
disturbances of which he Jews in Palestine were victims were caused by the
overzealousness of local Turkish authorities.
1916: Twenty-four-year-old Baltimore native Samuel
Plotkin married Theresa Scott in Manhattan today after which hey settled in
Bridgeport, CT where he was a member of the Board of Education and the Board of
the Jewish Community Council.
1916: It was reported today that of the 325
seniors at Yale, twelve of them are Jewish.
1917(14th of Adar, 5677): Purim
1917: “The trial of a $50,000 libel suit
brought by Maschulem F. Seidman, war correspondent for the Warheit and other
Jewish news against The Day, another Jewish publication” which centered around
whether or not was in fact part of “German propaganda effort to win the
sympathies of Jews in America for the Teuton cause” continued for a second day
in New York.
1918: The first issue of Di varhayt (The Truth),
the first Yiddish communist paper in the world, was published today. Di varhayt
was published in Petrograd, Russia by the People’s Commissariat for Jewish
Affairs. It was closed down after a brief existence, as the People’s
Commissariat was shifted to the new capital Moscow and the lack of Yiddish
journalists in Petrograd. The paper was later re-started as Der Emes.
1918: A meeting of the Fatherland Union, the
Elberfeld German People’s Party resolved “to request that in the future all
professors and teachers of German, theatre managers and contributors to the
press in all German states be of pure German lineage.” (Editor’s note: For all of the Holocaust apologists, please
note that the war is still going on, there is no Versailles treaty and Hitler
was a corporal in the Kaiser’s Army)
1918: Birthdate of Dresden native Irene H.
Aronson, the English and American trained artist.
https://americanart.si.edu/artist/irene-aronson-147
1918: Ukrainian mobs
massacred the Jews of Seredino Buda
1918: In Salonica, the government decided to
exempt Jewish Ottoman subjects living in Greece from the regulation prohibiting
commercial transactions with subjects of enemy states.”
1918: Jews of Gloucher were massacred by
Ukrainians. At this point in Russian history, the empire was in
chaos. The Czar had been deposed. Kerensky and his Social
Democrats were trying to rule the country. The Bolsheviks under Lenin and
Trotsky were plotting to replace the Provisional Government. In the
meantime, the Ukrainians continued their tradition of anti-Semitism
and killing Jews whenever they had the chance.
1918: In Bobruisk, “as a result of steps taken
by pro-Jewish labor leaders, the ban against Jewish employees in the factories
of the city was lifted.”
1918: The Government
of Greece decides to exempt Jewish Ottoman subjects living in Greece from
regulations prohibiting commercial transactions with subjects of enemy states.
1918: “As a result
of steps taken by pro-Jewish labor leaders, the ban against using Jewish
employees in the factories” was lifted in Bobruisk.
1919: Representative
Julius Kahn, Republican congressman from California expressed his opposition to
Zionism. He said “that the Zionist Congress which was recently held in
Philadelphia had asserted that it represented 150,000 out of approximately
3,000,000 American Jews. These figures would seem to indicate that the
so-called Zionist number only a small minority” of American Jewry. “The reason
I am opposed to a Jewish state is that experience has shown that the Jew
becomes a good patriotic citizen of any country giving him full citizenship and
civil and religious liberty….I am afraid that many avowed Zionists are also
internationalists. I am not. I believe that we in America should stand for
this country and its institutions against all the world. In fact, I believe that as nationalists we
make of our religion a secondary matter.
Our country comes first. Our
Judaism is simply our religious faith.”
1920: Faisal I bin
Hussein bin Ali al-Hashimi who fought with Lawrence of Arabia and who signed an
agreement with Chaim Weizmann that was blueprint for cooperation between Arabs
and Jews began his short lived reign as Faisal I, King of Syria.
1920: During a
series of Arab protest demonstrations “led to several Arab attacks on Jewish
passers-by and shop owners. The British
authorities were alarmed at the violent tone of the Arab protests, in which
calls to kill the Jews were heard alongside the popular slogan ‘Palestine is
our land, and the Jews are our dogs.’”
1921: In Paris,
Marguerite and Paul Rosenberg, “a key figure in the Parisian art world in the
first half of the century” gave birth to “Alexandre P. Rosenberg, founding
president of the Art Dealers Association of America and for many years a
prominent art dealer in New York.” (As reported by John Russell)
1921: Rufus Daniel Isaacs, 1st Marquees of
Reading, completed his service as Lord Chief Justice of England.
1922: Birthdate of
New York native and NYU and MIT trains physicist Melvin Lax, winner in 1999 of
“the Willis Lamb Medal for Science and Quantum Optics.
https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral-histories/5037
1923: “Excludes
Alien Jewish Students” published today described the announcement of “a
decision of he Board of Professors” at the Vienna Polytechnic” that henceforth
numerous clauses will be applied against foreign Jewish students.”
1924:
Ninety-two-year-old Hannah Mathilde von Rothschild, the daughter and wife of
members of the famous members of this banking dynasty who was unique in her
musical activities which included studying with Chopin, writing songs for
popular vocalist of the day and publishing “a volume of 30 melodies” passed
away today.
https://family.rothschildarchive.org/people/53-hannah-mathilde-mathilde-von-rothschild-1832-1924
1925: Louis
Marshall, the President of Temple Emanu-El addressed the members of the
Emanu-El League, the congregations newest organization which is designed to
attract younger congregants, calling on them “to study and spread Judaism and
learn the History of the Jews and their contributions to civilization” while participating in the
philanthropic and communal pursuits that will prepare to lead the Temple in the
future.
1926: “Denies Break
in Jews’ Life” published today included a denial by Rabbi Nathan Krass of
Temple Emanu-El “that the blank page in the” Christian “Bible separating the
Old and New Testaments was meant to mark a barren period in the history of
Israel.”
1926: In
Philadelphia, PA, “prominent basketball referee and baseball umpire Harry
Rudolph” and his wife gave birth to Marvin “Mendy” Rudolph who was an NBA
referee for 22 years from 1953 to 1957
http://web.archive.org/web/20070930181653/http:/www.hoophall.com/ot/rudolph-induction-article.html
1927: In New York
City, Joseph C. Hyman and Lee Roven, the sister of concert pianist Anton
Rovinsky gave birth to composer and conductor Richard “Dick” Hyman
1927: Birthdate of
Joel Kaufman who played forward and center for New York University before
choosing to play professional with the American Basketball League after having
been drafted by the Warriors of the NBA.
1928(15th
of Tevet, 5688): Sixty-four-year-old Julius Matz, the German born so of
1928: Bantamweight
Herman “Kid” Silvers (born Herman Silverberg) was defeated in his 32nd bout.
1929: “Fräulein
Else” the movie version of a novella by Arthur Schnitzler and directed by Paul
Czinnner was released in Germany today.
1929: Financier Paul
Warburg warned that the wild speculation gripping the stock market could lead
to disaster. [Bernard Baruch was another Jewish financier who expressed the
same concern.]
1930(8th
of Adar, 5690): Parashat Terumah and Shabbat Zachor
1930:
Seventy-two-year-old William Howard Taft the only person to serve as President
of the United States and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and who was the
first U.S. president to attend a seder passed away today.
1930: Der shtern, “a
Yiddish language newspaper published in Kharkov” which “was an organization of
the Central Committee of the Communist party” demanded today that OZET, “the
public Society for Settling Toiling Jews on the Land” in the Soviet Union, “liquidate
all religious habits in the Jewish colonies” noting that many of “the Jews
still observed the Sabbath” and Kashrut.
1931: At Temple
Emanu-El, Rabbi Isaac A. Milner is scheduled to officiate at the funeral of
Austrian born and NYU trained physician 63-year-old Dr. George Mord “an
assistant medical examiner of Staten Island and one of the oldest practicing
physicians in Richmond County, NY.
1932: Judge Pound,
“another ‘liberal’” is scheduled to succeed “Benjamin N. Cardozo as chief judge
of New York’s State Court of Appeals.”
1933: “At an
emergency executive meeting of the Greater New York American Palestine Campaign
Committee it was voted unanimously according to an announcement today to
continue the American Palestine campaign to raise money to enable the Jewish
Agency for Palestine to maintain colonization, education, immigration and
sanitation activities in the Jewish homeland.
1934: “Rabbi Stephen
S. Wise told 2,500 persons at an anti-Hitler rally in the Jewish Community
Centre of Jersey” tonight “that he hoped President Roosevelt would ‘speak out’
in protest of the persecutions of Jews in Germany” and “he urged all present to
aid in settling Jewish refugees from Germany in Palestine and to continue their
boycott of German exports.”
1935: U.S. premiere
of “Roberta” produced by Pandro S. Bermon with music by Jerome Kern and
conducted by Max Steiner.
1936(14th
of Adar, 5696): Purim
1936: “A festival of
Purim play was given” this “afternoon at Temple Emanu-El on 5th
Avenue.
1936: At Temple
Ansche Chesed, “Rabbi Joseph Zeitlin said Purim offered consolation to all
oppressed people” because “it teaches us that force will inevitable fail” and
that “the more a people is persecuted for devotion to ideals the more attached
and loyal they become.”
1936: “At Temple
B’nai Jershurun, Rabbi Israel Goldstein reviewed historical instances of
persecution” saying that “the problem that confronted the Jews of Persia and
Rome now confront the Jews of the twentieth century” who must “yield to the
forces and lose their identity” or “resist those forces” and risk isolation.
1936: In the Bronx,
“Dr. Jacob Katz rabbi of the Montefiore Congregation said the celebration of
PUrimes was not to commemorate the defeat of the Persians, but to revive the
spirit of endurance, patience and fortitude of the Jews ‘until the time comes
when neither nations nor creeds shall ask conquest but shall rely for their
survival and progress on the true human value and divine inspiration.’”
1936: “Rabbi Herbert
S. Goldstein, preaching at the Institutional Synagogue, said anti-Semitism
arose not only from the desire to abolish Judaism but also from political and
economic jealousies.”
1936: “Three hundred
chapters throughout the” United States are scheduled to “merge the
celebration…with founders’ day programs” today on a “date that marks the 24th
anniversary of the organization which was established by Miss Henriette Szold
in 1912.”
1936: Dr. Chaim
Weizmann is scheduled to arrive today in London where he will engage in “a
series of consultations on the increasingly serious position of Jewish
communities’ including Germany, Poland – where “anti-Semitism on the Nazi
model” is growing and Rumania as well as actions being taken by the British
government in Palestine which are inimical to Jewish interests and violate the
Balfour Declaration.
1936: “Rabbi Joseph
Rosen, an authority on Talmudic law…known to Jews as the Rogachever Gaon (sage
of Rogachev, Russia)…was eulogized at services” in Vienna today where were
attended by “a great number of his co-religionists.”
1936: The three
winners of the Einstein Medals which are presented by the Jewish Forum “for
distinguished services in the fields of peace, literature and philanthropy”
tonight were awarded to “Mrs. Estelle M. Sternberger, executive director of
World Peace ‘for outstanding service to the cause of world peace and goodwill;
author Franz Werfel for distinction as a novelist and playwright and James G.
McDonald, former high commissioner for German refugees for his services to the
humanitarian cause.”
1937: Helmut Hirsch,
a Jewish architectural student originally from Stuttgart was sentenced to death
today for his role in the attempted murder of Julius Streicher.
1937: The New York Times reported on acts of
human kindness and brotherhood during the ongoing wave of terrorism in
Palestine. “During recent disturbances a
Jewish chauffeur took the son of an Arab who was killed to a hospital and an
Arab driver rescued on the Jews hurt by stone-throwing.”
1938:
The Jewish Theological Seminary of America observed the twenty-fifth
anniversary of Dr. Joseph H. Hertz as Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew
Congregations of the British Empire in a broadcast from Radio Station WHN. Dr.
Hertz was the first graduate of the seminary.
1938:
“The Girl of the Golden West” a musical based on a play by David Belasco and
directed and produced by Robert Z. Leonard was released in the United States
today.
1939:
“The British Government decided today to suspend all formal and informal
meetings with the Jewish and Arab delegates to the Palestine Conference and to
proceed with the formulation of its own plan, which will be submitted to both
sides early next week. (As reported by Robert P. Post)
1939:
Sixty-three-year-old Isaïe Schwartz, the Grand Rabbi of Strasbourg who during
the World War had served as a stretcher bearer and as a chaplain at the
American Army based at Bordeaux, was elected Grand Rabbi France, “replacing
Israel Levy who had retired on account of his health.”
1940:
A curfew which had gone into effect yesterday following protests over the “new
restrictions on land transfers” which has been “led by the chief rabbis and
members of the Vaad Leumi” was scheduled to fe lifted today.
1941:
In a prelude to her famous diary, Esther “Etty” Hillesum wrote a
letter addressed to Julius Spier in an exercise book which would provide a
picture of life in Amsterdam under Nazi occupation.
1942:
“Chaim Weizmann, president of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, laid upon the
British Government today responsibility for the death of 760 Jewish refugees
from Rumania who perished when the steamer Struma sank in the Black Sea recently.”
1942:
The 2,500 delegates attending the annual conventions of H.I.A.S.at the Hotel
Astor were told today that “n the eighteen months since the fall of France,
“rescue through emigration” of 25,000 men, women and children from
Europe has been aided by the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society and
its European affiliate.”
1943(1st
of Adar, 5703): Rosh Chodesh Adar II
1943:
In London, Lynn Smith and theatrical agent Leslie Grade gave birth to English
television executive and businessman Michael Ian Grade, Baron Grade of
Yarmouth, CBE whose wives include Penelope Levinson, Sarah Lawson and Francesca
Leahy.
1943: Greek Jews of
Salonika were transported to Nazi extermination camps.
1943: The Sokolovo Czech battalion battled the
Germans for three days. Of the 1,000 Czech soldiers, 600 are Jews.
1944: Today marked the start of the “Liquidation
of the Theresienstadt concentration camp to which “approximately 144,000 Jews,
most of whom were Czech citizens” had been sent approximately 33,000 of whom
had died” and whose remaining inmates were on there way to Auschwitz.
1944: Robert Rosenthal’s crew, nicknamed
Rosie’s Riveters, completed their 25-mission combat tour, although the B-17F
(s/n 42-30758) that they usually flew bearing the same name was shot down while
being flown by a different crew during the 4 February 1944 mission to
Frankfurt, Germany” and while the “crew
returned to the United States, Rosenthal extended his tour, eventually flying a
total of 52 missions.”
1944: In the Warsaw Ghetto
37 Jews are given away in their hiding places.
Emanuel Ringelblum, noted historian and author of a detailed chronicle
of the plight of the Warsaw Jews is one of the group that is captured. Ringelblum was tortured for three days during
which he revealed nothing about his fellow Jews in hiding. A few days later
Ringelblum aged 43, his wife, and 13 year old son Uri were executed. (Some
sites show this as having happened on March 7.
The fog of war and change of time zones can play havoc with precision
dating sometimes)
1944: In France, “in the morning there is
a knock on the door at the apartment of Hélène Berr’s family.” Her parents
Raymond and Antoinette would die later that year in Auschwitz. Helene
will survive until 1945 when she will die at Bergen Belsen where she was beaten
to death five days before the camp was liberated by the British.
1945: In response to a proposal by Chief Rabbis
Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel and Yitzhak Halevi Hersog made on March 5th
at a meeting at the Hurva Synagogue today marked the first day of a week of
mourning that will “culminate with a fast day on March 14.
1945(23rd of Adar, 5705): Katherine
Garfield the only daughter of actor John Garfield and Roberta Seiman who had
been born in 1938 passed away today after contracting a case of strep throat
while on a USO tour with her father.
1945: The Big Red One, whose members included
Samuel Fuller captured Bonn today.
1946: “World Zionism officially proposed to the
Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine today that 1,000,000 more Jews
be brought to Palestine within the next decade.”
1947: The Committee organizing the second
International Music Festival to be held in Prague has invited Leonard Bernstein
to conduct the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra when it performs in May of this
year.
1947: After having been sighted by RAF plane
the refugee-filled SS Ben Hecht also called the Abril was intercepted by
British ships- HMS Chieftain, HMS Chevron and HMS Chivalrous and HMS St.
Bride’s Bay off the coast of Palestine and were boarded by two waves of British
soldiers wearing red berets which earned them the sobriquet “red devils.”
1947: Dr. Ludwig Fischer was executed for his
role in the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto
1947: Jewish terrorists defy British Martial
law by launching a series of attacks in Tel Aviv tonight that injure 17 people,
including 15 Jews, one British constable and one Arab constable.
1948: Birthdate of Yaakov Zvi, the London
native we know as Jonathan Henry Sacks, the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew
Congregations of the Commonwealth and one of the most influential Jewish
leaders of his time.
https://www.aish.com/authors/48865787.html
1948: “It was learned tonight after the first
meeting of the Great Powers” that “the Soviet Union is pressing for a prompt
decision on steps to carry out the partition of Palestine while the United
States still hopes that a settlement satisfactory to both Jews and Arabs can be
worked out.” (As reported by Thomas J. Hamilton)
1948: Milton Sperling and Betty Warner gave
birth to their third child, Cass Warner.
1948: The U.S. Supreme
Court ruled that religious instruction in public schools was unconstitutional.
1949: During Operation Uvda, as the defending
Jordanian forces withdrew, the Golani forces took Ein Ghamr.
1949: During the day the IDF moved towards Umm
Rashrash through the Valley of the Fingers which in the evening the Alexandroni
Brigade set sail from Sodom on the Dead Sea with the intent of seizing Ein
Gedi.
1949: Following elections, David Ben-Gurion
formed the first government of Israel.
In what would prove to be the curse of the Israeli political system, it
was a coalition government led by Mapai but including two other smaller
parties. Ben-Gurion served both as Prime
Minister and Defense Minister. Future Prime Minister Golda Meir served as the
Minister of Labor and Social Security.
1949: “In a Knesset session in Tel
Aviv…Eliahu Eliashar, a parliamentary representative of the Sephardi Jews,
spoke on behalf of the Jews from Muslim lands.”
1950(19th of Adar, 5710): Sixty-seven-year-old
Hans Müller-Einigen, the son of Dr. Josef Müller and Johanna Müller, who is
best “known for his screenplay for ‘The White Horse’” passed away today in
Germany.
1950(19th of Adar, 5710): Fifty-eight-year-old
“Oscar A.H. Danenberg, a former state representative and legal aid for the
municipal department of public welfare passed away today in Stratford, Ct.
1950: An overflow crowd of one thousand
mourners filled New York’s Park West Memorial Chapel and spilled out into the
street at the funeral services for Daniel Frisch, the president of the Zionist
Organization of America. Rabbi Bernard
Bergman officiated at the service and he was assisted by Cantor Robert
Segal. Numerous tributes were paid to
Frisch for his support of Jewish causes and Zionism by several famous
dignitaries include Eliahu Elath, Israel’s Ambassador to the United States,
Louis Lips, chairman of the American Zionist council and Dr. Nahum Goldmann,
chairman of the American section of the Jewish Agency for Palestine. Following the service, Mr. Frisch’s body will
be taken to Indianapolis for burial.
1950: Judge Morris Rothenberg, National
Chairman of the United Palestine Appeal, issued a report today that funds
raised by American Jews “had made possible” the establishment” of 3,000 small
businesses for the rehabilitation and resettlement of invalid immigrants in
Israel at a cost of five million dollars.”
1951: The International Table Tennis Federation
banned Egypt for refusing to play Israel. You have to give some points to
the ping pong players. They were one of the few international
organizations that has not knuckled under to the Arabs and their supporters.
1951: In London, the original West End
production of “Kiss Me, Kate” a musical with the book by Samuel and Bella
Spewack opened today.
1951: “Royal Wedding” the Alan Jay Lerner
musical comedy directed by Stanley Donen premiered today in New York City
1951: Release date for “Lemon Drop Kid,” a
comedy directed by Sidney Lanfield, featuring Sid Melton as “Little Louie” and
Ben Welden as “Singing Solly.”
1952: Birthdate of former U.S. Senator George
Allen. According to Jewish law, Allen is
Jewish since his mother was Jewish. This information surfaced during Allen’s
campaign for re-election in 2006. He did not find out that his mother was
Jewish until sometime after he became an adult.
His mother had lived in Tunisia during World War II and seen her father
hauled off by the authorities. She did
not want her children to know about their Jewish heritage because she saw being
Jewish as threat to their physical well-being.
If it could happen in Tunisia, she reasoned, it could happen again, even
in the United States.
1953: In Camden, NJ Irving Levinsky chaired
haired a dinner honoring Beth El’s past presidents and founders including Morris
Handle, Louis Berkowitz, Benjamin Natal, Louis Cades, Jacob Leventon, Henry L.
Barroway, E. George Aaron, Meyer Adleman, Samuel F. Ginns, Israel Katz, Jesse
Satenstein, Meyer Sakin, Herman Z. Cutler, Morris Liebman and Louis Markowitz.
http://www.dvrbs.com/people/camdenpeople-louisberkowitz.htm
1953(21st of Adar, 5713): Russian born
New Haven, CT businessman Max Alderman
who along with his younger brothers Abraham and William established Alderman
Brothers and who was “Director of the Free Loan Association and the Jewish Aged of New Haven while also being
a member of the Knights of Israel and Vilna Society passed away today after which
he was buried at the Congregation Bikur Cholim Cemetery in East Haven, CT.
1955(14th of Adar, 5715): Purim
1956: “Eleven Orthodox deans of Jewish seminaries
signed a directive declaring that joint action with liberal rabbis is ‘prohibited
by Torah law’” and “that Orthodox rabbis should not participated in the activities
of the New York Board of Rabbis or the Synagogue Council of America” both of
which “are major Jewish agencies” that “have been composed of Orthodox. Conservative
and Reform members.”
1956: In Toronto, “Harry Rosen, founder of
Harry Rosen, Inc.,” “a Canadian retail chain of 17 luxury men’s clothing stores”
and Evelyn Rosen gave birth to University of Toronto and University of Western
Ontario trained businessman and attorney Larry Rosen, the chairman and CEO of
Harry Rosen, Inc who “was appointed as a Member of the Order of Canada for his
accomplishments in business and philanthropy.”
1957: Egypt reopened the Suez Canal to
minor shipping after the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Sinai Peninsula.
This was the last chapter in the Suez Crisis of 1956. Unfortunately, the
United Nations did not honor its guarantees to Israel and the result was
the Six Days War of 1967
1957(5th of Adar II, 5717): A
shepherd from kibbutz Beit Guvrin was killed by terrorists in a field near the
kibbutz.
1958(16th of Adar, 5718): Parashat
Ki Tisa
1958: In Wilmington, Delaware, Mrs. Joseph
Lazarus has made know the engagement daughter Phyllis Lazarus to Stanley Tocker
the holder of a doctorate in chemistry from FSU>
1959: “Too Many Crooks” a comedy co-starring
Bernard Bresslaw and music by Stanley Black (Solomon Schwartz) was released in
the United Kingdom today.
1959: George Lincoln Rockwell founded the
American Nazi Party
1961(20th of Adar, 5721): Seventy-three-year-old
Artur Carlos de Barros Basto (Abraham Israel Ben-Rosh) the Portuguese army
office the crypto-Jew who affirmed his Judaism through conversion, helped
hundreds escape the Shoah and worked to rebuild the Jewish community on the
Iberian peninsula passed away today
http://www.the-jewish-story.org/basto.html
1961:
Birthdate of actress Camryn Manheim.
She has appeared in such movies as “Bonfire of the Vanities” and
television programs as “The Practice.”
In 1999 she published her autobiography entitled Wake Up, I’m Fat!
1963: A five-man
syndicate led by Sonny Werblin bought the New York Titans which they would
rebrand as the New York Jets, the first AFL team to win the Superbowl. (As
reported by Bob Wechsler)
1964(24th
of Adar, 5724): Seventy-three-year-old Budapest born American psychoanalyst Dr.
Franz Gabriel Alexander, the husband of “artist Anita Venier with whom he had
two daughters, Sylvia and Francesca, passed away today.
https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1176/appi.ajp.159.8.1305
1965: The Knesset passed the “Broadcasting Authority Law” which is the basis
for the Israeli Broadcasting Authority’s operations. The Israeli Broadcasting
Authority (IBA) was formed as an independent corporation responsible for all
broadcasts in Israel and to the Diaspora. Until 1965, Kol Israel operated under
the Office of the Prime Minister.
1969: A Chamber
Orchestra including violinist Miriam Fried and cellist Michael Harran and
featuring Rudolf Serkin as soloist is scheduled to perform today at Hunter
College.
1969: During “The War of Attrition” a massive
artillery barrage marked the start of the Egyptian campaign to destroy the Bar
Lev Line. The plan was under the direct
supervision of General Abdul Munim Riad, the chief of Staff of the Egyptian
Armed Forces.
1970: “Thirty-nine
Soviet Jews from different cities protested against the” U.S.S.R’s’ “continuing
anti-Israel and anti-Zionist Campaign.”
1970: Attorney
Robert Shapiro, part of the O.J. Simpson “dream team” and a co-founder of
LegalZoom married Linell Thomas today.
1971: Birthdate of
David Aaron Greenberg, the native of New Haven, CT whose poetry was inspired by
a meeting with Allen Ginsberg.
1971: William
Davidon, a Jewish physics professor at Haverford College led “a group of
anti-war activists” who “broke into a small FBI satellite office in the town of
Media,” Pennsylvania.
1971: Dorothy Fields
was inducted into the Songwriters’ Hall of Fame. She was the only woman in the
first class of inductees. Two of her songs that are still played today
are“I Can’t Give You Anything But
Love, Baby” and “On the Sunny Side of the Street.” The song “The Way You Look
Tonight” an Academy Award for “Best Song” in 1936.
1973: CBS broadcast
the “Marcus-Nelson Murders” with a script by Abby Mann in what would prove to
be the pilot for the police drama “Kojak” created by Mann.
1973(4th
of Adar II, 5733): Seventy-two year old accountant Frank Abrams, “a close
association of the late Rabbi Stephen S. Wise “and an “honorary vice president
of the American Jewish Congress” who raised three sons – Sheldon, Douglas and
Barry – with his wife Sylvia passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1973/03/09/archives/frank-abrams-dies-a-leader-in-aic.html
1974: “Henry
Kissinger warned Congress of a presidential veto if the trade bill” was linked
to the issue of Jewish immigration from the Soviet Union.
1975: Birthdate of
Livingston, NJ native and Harvard trace attorney Joshua S. Gottheimer, the
husband of Marla Tusk whom he married in 2006 and who has served as the U.S.
representative for New Jersey’s 5th congressional district since 2017.
1976(6th
of Adar II, 5736): Eighty-six-year-old Edith Altschul Lehman, the widow of
former New York Governor Herbert H. Lehman passed away today. (JWA shows her
death date as 1974 while the Times uses 1976)
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/archival/collections/ldpd_4078517/index.html
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/Lehman-Edith-Altschul
https://www.nytimes.com/1976/03/09/archives/edith-lehman-philanthropist-is-dead.html
1977: “Cross of
Iron” a WW II movie set on the Eastern Front with music by Ernest Gold was
released in the UK today.
1977: First
International Women’s Day as proclaimed by the United Nations.
1979: As part of his
peace-making trip to the Middle East, President Carter is scheduled to arrive
in Egypt this afternoon.
1980(20th
of Adar 5740): Shabbat Parah observed for the last time during the presidency
of Jimmy Carter.
1981: Foreign
Minister Yithak Shamir “warned that the arms race already underway in the
Middle East would be accelerated by the U.S. decision to sell additional
sophisticated weaponry to Arab countries…”
1985(15th
of Adar, 5745): Shushan Purim
1985: “Two hundred and fifty Congressmen addressed
a letter to President Reagan requesting the administration to set up talks with
the Soviet Union, aimed solely at allowing freer emigration of Soviet Jews, in accordance
with the Helsinki Accords.”
1987: In the Soviet
Union, “Jewish parents” gave birth to American
actress, comedian, and activist Milana Aleksandrovna Vayntrub.
1988: Refuseniks
meet today with U.S. Senators Sam Nunn, Alan Cranston and Carl Levin all of
whom were Democrats.
1989: “Will You
Marry Me?” a one act opera by composer Hugo David Weisgall was performed for
the first time today by the Opera Ensemble of New York.
1990(11th
of Adar, 5750): Fast of Esther observed because the 13th of Adar
falls on Shabbat.
1993(15th of Adar,
5753): Uri Magidish was stabbed to death by two Palestinians while working in a
hothouse at Gan Or.
1998: The New York Times featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or special interest to Jewish readers including The
Picasso Papers by Rosalind Krauss, Mahler by Jonathan Carr and Conversations
With Joseph Brodsky: A Poet’s Journey Through the Twentieth Century
by Solomon Volkov.
1998(10th
of Adar, 5758): Forty-four-year-old Broadway musical star Laurie Hope Beechman
passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/10/arts/laurie-beechman-dies-at-44-played-grizabella-in-cats.html
2000: “In the latest
of a series of scandals involving top Israeli officials, Transportation
Minister Yitzhak Mordechai announced today that he was taking a leave of
absence after the police had begun to investigate a complaint that he had
sexually assaulted a woman who works in his ministry.”
2000: Prime Minister Ehud Barak met today with Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian
leader, to try to restart formal peace negotiations after a break of more than
a month, Israeli and Palestinian officials said.
2001(13th
of Adar, 5761): Ta’anit Esther; Erev Purim
2001(13th
of Adar, 5761): Sixty-seven-year-old Plymouth, PA native Abraham ‘Abe Cohen who
played college football at the University of Tennessee, Chattagnooga before
turning pro with the CFL Hamilton Tiger-Cats and the NFL Boston Patriots (the
forerunner of the New England Patriots) passed away today.
2003(4th
of Adar II, 5763): Parashat Pekudi
2003(4th
of Adar II, 5763): Ninety-one year old Dr. Benjamin W. Pushkin, the husband of
Ann Pushkin with whom he raised two children – Robert and Judy — who practiced podiatry for sixty years in
Chicago and Los Angeles and who had been President of the Howard Paul Wilson
B’nai B’rith Lodge passed away today..
2004(15th
of Adar, 5764): Shushan Purim
2004(15th
of Adar, 5674): Ninety-two year old painter Elise Asher, the wife of poet
Stanley Kunitz, passed away today.
2005: “A report on
the Israeli government’s support for illegal settlement outposts in the West
Bank” which “describes widespread state complicity, fraud and cynicism, illegal
diversion of government funds and illegal seizure of private Palestinian land”
“was formally delivered to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon” today.
2006: The Hebrew
Cemetery in Richmond, VA “aka Hebrew Burying Ground” founded in 1816 was added
to the Virginia Landmarks Register.
2006: French born,
American-Jewish businessman Roland Arnall begins serving as United States Ambassador
to the Netherlands.
2006: Zubin Mehta,
conductor of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, is honored as a Dan David
Laureate the annual awards ceremony at
the Opera Garnier in Paris. The Dan David Prize
annually awards 3 prizes of US$ 1 million each for achievements having an
outstanding scientific, technological, cultural or social impact on our world.
2006(8th of Adar, 5766): Sixty-nine
year old George Sassoon, the multi-talented son of poet Siegfried Sassoon
passed away today.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1513183/George-Sassoon.html
2007: Haaretz
reports the 2006 war in Lebanon triggered a baby boom. According to health
maintenance organization statistics show that the number of women now in their
fifth, sixth or seventh month of pregnancy was 35 percent higher than the
figure a year ago.
2008: A scaled down London revival Jerry
Herman’s and Harvey Fierstein’s “La Cage aux Folles” came to a close at the
Menier Chocolate Factory
2008: Rosh Chodesh Adar II, 5768, First Day of
Adar II
2008: Shabbat Shekalim, 5768
2008: (1 Adar II 5763) Yahrzeit for
the passengers killed on Egged Bus #53 five years ago in Tel Aviv:
·
Kmer Abu Khamed, 12, from Daliyat al Karmel
·
Yuval Mendelevitch, 13, from Haifa
·
Smadar Firstatter, 17, from Haifa
·
Avigail Lietel, 14, from Haifa
·
Asaf Tzur, 16, from Haifa
·
Daniel Harush, 16 , from Safed
·
Tom Hershko, 16, from Haifa, and his father-
·
Motti Hershko, 41, from Haifa
·
Tal Kehrmann, 17, from Haifa
·
Elizabeth (Liz) Katzman, 17, from Haifa
·
Meital Katav, 20, from Haifa
·
Moran Shushan, 20, from Haifa
·
Anatoly Biryakov, 20, from Haifa
·
Be’eri Ovad, 21 , from Rosh Pina
·
Eliyahu Laham, 22, from Haifa
·
Miriam Atar, 27, from Haifa
·
Mark Takash, 54, from Haifa
2009:
In Chicago final performances of two plays by Lillian Hellman – “The Little
Foxes” and “Scoundrel Time.”
2009:
The New York Times featured reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including Pictures at an Exhibition by Sara Houghteling, The Kindly
Ones by Jonathan Littell, The Believers by Zoe Heller and the
recently published paperback edition of The Forger by Cioma Schönhaus.
2009: In its on-line edition The Washington Post
featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to
Jewish readers including The Believers by Zoe Heller and Hunting
Eichmann:
How a Band of Survivors And a Young Spy
Agency Chased Down The World’s Most Notorious Nazi by Neal Bascomb.
2009: Military Intelligence chief Amos Yadlin said today at the weekly
cabinet meeting that “Iran has crossed the technological threshold”
in its quest for nuclear arms.
2009: In “They Lived in our midst: Area was
haven for Nazi-era figures,” published today, Ron Grossman reports on Nazis who
moved to Chicago after World War II. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-chicago-nazis-08-mar08,0,758025,print.story
2009: Israel advanced to the Davis Cup
quarterfinals for the first time since 1987 after rallying to beat seven-time
champion Sweden 3-2 today in a close series overshadowed by political protests.
Harel Levy beat Andreas Vinciguerra 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 3-6, 8-6 to decide the World
Group first-round series in a near-empty arena in Malmo.Only about 300 special
invitees were allowed to watch the match because city officials said they
couldn’t guarantee security at the venue. Critics, including the Israeli team,
said Malmo was caving in to threats of violence from anti-Israel groups.
2009: In “Even Among
Venerable Texts, a Torah Like No Other,” published today Sophia Hollander
describes the discovery of an 800-year-old Torah and the unique career of
Yitzchok Reisman who is both a rabbi and a sofer.
The
weathered brown parchment with its frayed edges and inked Hebrew letters seemed
beautiful but unremarkable. Itzhak Winer, a 34-year-old Torah scribe turned
Judaica seller, considered the item a nice find, but just one of the 30 or more
Torahs he buys and sells in a year. From his Jerusalem dealer, he learned that
the Torah had been owned by a family in Morocco and was in excellent condition.
“He knew that it’s old, but he didn’t really know — and neither did I — how
special it was,” said Mr. Winer, who works out of his home in Willowbrook,
Staten Island. Curious about the item’s
origins, Mr. Winer took it to a Lower East Side rabbi named Yitzchok Reisman,
an expert in identifying antique Torahs, the scrolls containing the first five
books of the Hebrew Scriptures. Rabbi Reisman, born in 1938 in Flatbush,
Brooklyn, found himself drawn as a teenager to the scribes who congregated on
the Lower East Side. They shared their craft with him, passing down stories and
lore of ancient scrolls. Rabbi Reisman also became attracted to the buying and
selling of Torahs. “There were 400 congregations that were declining, closing
up and selling off the Torahs and the assets,” he said. As Torahs from the
Lower East Side migrated to the suburbs and across the continent, the sellers,
he saw, “helped transfer the Torah scrolls on to the rest of America.” Today,
Rabbi Reisman restores Torahs using handmade ink and carved turkey feathers at
his workshop on Grand Street. Heaps of wooden rollers and antique furniture
obscure treasures like the gleaming copper case of a 300-year-old Yemenite
Torah and an elaborately woven Torah cover from Iraq. Rabbi Reisman quickly
realized that Mr. Winer’s Torah was unique. The materials and calligraphic
style identified it as Spanish, which meant that it was written before 1492,
when the Jews were expelled from Spain. In addition, the strong swirls on the
top of certain letters matched the style favored in Kabbalah, the Jewish
mystical movement. “There are very, very
few manuscripts and pieces of manuscripts that are older than the 1400s,” Rabbi
Reisman said on a recent day in his ramshackle office as Mr. Winer looked on.
And the kabbalistic flourishes, the rabbi added, make it “the only Spanish
Torah known done in that way.”
These
special markings are “like thorns that appear in certain letters that only show
up in a small window of time,” Rabbi Reisman said. “No!” Mr. Winer interrupted.
“A few hundred years.” “That’s a small window,” Rabbi Reisman retorted. As they
bickered gently over nearly every detail, the two men also said that their
research suggested that the Torah was created between 1272 and 1302, and that
it could be connected to a famous Spanish scribe, Shem-Tob ben Abraham ibn
Gaon. But they did seem to agree on who should get the Torah. “We’re hoping to
get somebody or some community or some organization that wants to preserve the
Spanish kabalistic tradition,” Mr. Winer said, “and it’s important to them to
give it the
2010: CJH, LBI and YIVO are scheduled to present
“Czernowitz in Jewish Memory” during which a panel of historians and writers,
including Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer, the authors of a new volume entitled
Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory, will
discuss and debate the reconciliation of the two different memories Czernowtiz
within the broader history of Jewish emancipation, assimilation and resistance
in Eastern Europe. Czernowitz-“Vienna of the East”-is the site of two
different powerful memories. To some, it was home to an assimilationist
Austro-German Jewish culture; to others, it was a hub for the creation of
modern Yiddish language and culture.
2010(22nd
of Adar, 5770): Ninety-two-year-old
microbiologist Benjamin Rubin, “the investor of the bifurcated vaccination
needle” passed away today.
2010(22nd
of Adar, 5770: David Kimche, reputed Israeli spymaster and diplomat passed
away. A native of London who made Aliyah
in 1936 he fought in the War of Independence before attending the Sorbonne and Hebrew University.
2010: “The Addams Family” a musical comedy with
a book co-authored by Marshall Brickman and lyrics by Andrew Lippa with Bebe
Neuwirth as Morticia began previews on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
2010: Ronald Florence is scheduled to discuss Emissary
Of The Doomed: Bargaining For Lives In The Holocaust his new book on the
fate of Hungary’s Jews during World War II at noon today in the James Madison
Building of the Library of Congress.
2010: Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. began
a five-day visit to the Middle East today, part of a concerted American effort
to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and keep Israel focused on relying
on sanctions against Iran’s nuclear program rather than on unilateral military
action.
2010: George J. Mitchell, the administration’s
Middle East envoy, announced today in Jerusalem that Israel and the
Palestinians had agreed to start indirect negotiations and that he would be
back next week to continue structuring those talks.
2010: The Women’s International Zionist
Organization (WIZO) hosted a ceremony at the Tel Aviv Opera House where it
presented mock awards for what the nonprofit organization has termed the “most
sexist advertisements” of the year.
2010: Today “it was announced that Rob Morrow
has signed on to star in Jerry Bruckheimer’s new series, The Whole Truth, on
ABC
2011: At the Crowden Music Center, in Berkley,
CA, violinist Noah Bendix-Balgley is scheduled to perform the “rarely heard
works from the St. Petersburg Society for Jewish Folk Music, a
turn-of-the-century movement that brought Jewish folk music into European
classical form” during the Jewish Music Festival.
2011: Today, “Dana International won the
Israeli National Final for Eurovision with the song “Ding Dong,” and
represented Israel at Eurovision for a second time.”
2011:
The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host a panel discussion entitled
“The Rebbe, Charismatic Leadership and the American Spiritual Landscape.”
2011:
The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including Moonwalking With Einstein: The
Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer
2011:
A recent blast of cold air from Scandinavia coupled with warm Mediterranean Sea
influence created torrential rain and thunderstorms today. Snow fell in the
Hermon and other areas in the north. The morning hours saw between 10-30 mm of
rainfall in the country’s center, and between 5-15 mm in the North, with the
Israeli Meteorological Service reporting up to 32 mm in the Tel Aviv area.
Showers are expected to dissipate in the afternoon hours.
2011:
A film festival on women and religion is launching today at the Jerusalem
Cinematheque.
2011:
The Hurva Synagogue, which was officially rededicated a year ago, celebrated a
milestone today. For the first time since its destruction by the Jordanian Arab
Legion in May 1948, the Ashkenazi synagogue in the Old City of Jerusalem’s
Jewish Quarter hosted a wedding ceremony as an operational house of worship.
Avraham Pashnov and Rachel-Orli Journo were married in the Hurva’s courtyard.
During the ceremony, Pashnov said he and his wife are “only a tiny chain link
that brings together the past and the future.”
2011:
In an interview published today by the Wall Street Journal, Defense Minister
Ehud Barak said that Israel was considering asking the United States for an
additional $20 billion in aid due to the increased volatility in the Middle
East.
2012(14th
of Adar, 5772): Purim
2012:
Under the leadership of Rabbi Pinchas Ciment, Chabad Lubavitch of Arkansas is
scheduled to sponsor the Royal Purim Feast With The Stars in Little Rock, AR.
2012: “Grace Paley: Collected Shorts” is
scheduled to be shown at the Farthest North Jewish Film Festival in Fairbanks,
Alaska.
2012: Professors Jerome Copulsky and Alison
Peterman are scheduled to lead “Scripture and Spinoza,” a backstage discussion
following tonight’s performance of “New Jerusalem: The Interrogation of Baruch
De Spinoza.
2012: A Palestinian
stabbed an IDF soldier in the village of Yata in the southern Hebron Hills
today. The soldier returned fire, injuring the attacker and killing another
Palestinian with him. The two Palestinians that were shot were both teenagers.
The soldier was moderately wounded and evacuated to Hadassah Ein Karem Hospital
in Jerusalem.
http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=261037
2012: Maj.-Gen. Nitzan Alon was
appointed head of the Central Command in place of Maj.-Gen. Avi Mizrahi.
2012: As Israel struggles with how
to keep Iran from going nuclear “Six world powers called on Iran today to let
international inspectors visit a military site where the UN nuclear watchdog
says development work relevant to nuclear weapons may have taken place.”
2013: Soloists and Ensembles of the Jerusalem
Conservatory of Music and Dance are scheduled to perform at the Eden-Tamir
Music Center.
2013: Eva Erben who
as a young girl “was forced by the Nazis to leave her home in Prague and join
one of the transports to the Theresienstadt Ghetto” is scheduled to speak at
the Wiener Library on “Escape Story: Surviving the Holocaust as a Young Girl.”
2013: The Maccabeats are scheduled to perform at Beth Jacob Congregation in
Beverly Hills, CA.
2014: Nir Areli’s, “Inframan” in
which he created a series of portraits using an infrared technique is scheduled
to have its final showing at the Daniel Cooney Gallery.
2014: In London the Girls in
Trouble duo (poet and multi-instrumentalist Alicia Jo Rabins, accompanied by
bassist Aaron Hartman) are scheduled to perform songs from their two albums;
Girls in Trouble and Half You Half Me.
2014: “Natan” and “When Jews Were
Funny” are scheduled to be shown at the Washington Jewish Film Festival.
2014: “The Jewish Cardinal” is
scheduled to be shown at the Northern Virginia Jewish Film Festival.
2014: “The Klos-C, which was
captured with what the IDF says is a cargo of Iranian arms in its hold” and
“its Israeli Navy escort entered the port of Eilat this afternoon after a
voyage of three-and-a-half days following Israel’s interception of the ship off
the coast of Sudan earlier this week.” (As reported by Ilan Ben Zion)
2014: “A Little String Music”
featuring performances of Israeli and klezmer music by Ruth Navarre is
scheduled to take place this evening at “LIMMUD” New Orleans.\
2014(6th of Adar II,
5774): Ninety-three year old Holocaust survivor Leo Bretholz passed away
today.(As reported by Paul Vitello)
2015(17th of Adar, 5775): Fifty-nine-year-old
Sam Simon, the creative of “The Simpsons” passed away today.
2015: The New York Times features
reviews of books by and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including To
Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science by Steven Weinberg.
2015: The Jewish Museum of Florida
is scheduled to mark the 30th anniversary of the screening of Shoah
by showing Part 3 of the famed documentary.
2015: The Jewish Community Center
of Northern Virginia is scheduled to host “Have We Overcome?” which will
include a screening of a film depicting the famous 1960 Woolworth’s sit-in.
2015: In Iowa City, Rabbi Avremel
and Chaya Blesofsky are scheduled to host the Upsherin of their son Berel.
2015: IPTV presents “The Jewish
Journey: America.”
2015: “Residents of the Bat Ayin
settlement in the Etzion bloc south of Jerusalem accused the IDF and police of
“provoking” a violent altercation with local youth today that ended with a
soldier firing in the air to ward off the demonstrators” after police entered
the settlement “to arrest two residents suspected of ‘nationalist crimes.’”
2015: “A composition from
Estonian-born composer Jonas Tarm entitled ‘March to Oblivion’ which was set be
performed today at Carnegie Hall was pulled at the last minute because it
“contained a 45-second musical quotation from ‘Horst-Wessel-Lied’ – the Nazi
anthem. (As reported by Lazar Berman)
2016: The Jewish Genealogical
Society of Broward County is scheduled to host a “presentation from Jewish
Records Indexing-Poland” that “will deal with Jewish records and research for
two major areas of Poland.”
2016: The Pew Research published
“Israel’s Religiously Divided Society” today.
http://www.pewforum.org/2016/03/08/israels-religiously-divided-society/
2016: In “Deep Rifts Among Israeli
Jews Are Found in Religion Survey” published today Isabel Kershner described a
House of Israel that has many rooms.
2016: “A Nazi Legacy” is scheduled
to be shown at the Houston Jewish Film Festival in Houston, TX.
2016: Dr. Donneil Hartman,
President of the Shalom Hartman Institute is scheduled to lead the final
lecture of six session series at the Skirball Center that “focuses on the
personal and social mores behind the passionate opinions surrounding the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
2016: In London, the Pears
Institute for the Study of Antisemitism is scheduled to host a lecture by
Professor Sander Gilman of University on “Circumcision: An Index of Difference
and/or the Health Exception?”
2017: Rabbi Yigal Levinstein “who
works together with Rabbi Eli Sadan at the Bnei David pre-army program told
several hundred graduates of another pre-army that IDF service had ‘driven our
girls crazy’” because they are recruited into “the army where they enter as
Jews but” are not “Jews by the time they leave.”
2017: In “Lunch with Lisa Jackson
Pulver: Aboriginal health 80 years behind rest of Australia” published today,
Mark Dapin described his interview with “Western Sydney University
pro-vice-chancellor Lisa Jackson Pulver AM, a typical Aboriginal Jew who
escaped a horrifically violent home life to achieve a PhD in medicine and go on
to become a Group Captain in the Royal Australian Air Force and the first
female president of an Orthodox synagogue in Australia.”
2017: In Chicago, Dr. Richard A. Chaifetz and
E. Scott Santi are scheduled to be honored at tonight’s 2017 Humanitarian
Awards Dinner sponsored by the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center.
2017: The Oxford University Jewish Society is
scheduled to host “Pizza and Movie Night”
2017: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is
scheduled to host “Streit’s Matzo Mania” – an evening with Streit scion,
cookbook author Michele Heilbrun and chef/cookbook author David Kirschner
who will provide a crash course on matzo history, complete with clips from a
fascinating Streit’s documentary.
2018: “Nora’s Will” is scheduled to be shown at
the 21st NY Sephardic Jewish Film Festival today.
2018: In honor of International Women’s Day,
the National Library of Israel is scheduled to host special “Women’s Day tours”
today.
2018: Today, on International Women’s Day, Yad
Vashem launched to on-line female focused exhibits. (As reported by Tracy
Frydberg)
2018: “Israeli air defense commander Brigadier
General Tzivka Haimovitch” and Lieutenant General Richard Clark said today that
“thousands of America and Israeli soldiers are preparing for the real
possibility that they will have to fight ‘shoulder to shoulder’ against a
massive ballistic attack on the State of Israel.” (As reported Judah Ari Gross)
2018: Oxford University Jewish Society is
scheduled to host the “Jewniversity Challenge.”
2018: “Itzhak” by Alison Chernick is scheduled
to open in New York.
2019(1st of Adar II, 5779): Rosh
Chodesh Adar II meaning that Purim is on its way and Pesach is getting just a
little closer.
2019: Today, Women of the Wall celebrated its
30th anniversary with a special anniversary prayer service which
several prominent ultra-Orthodox rabbis sought to disrupt by calling for their
student to demonstrate at the Kotel.
2019: In Arlington, VA, Congregation Etz Hayim
is scheduled to host its “2nd Friday Night Musical Shabbat.”
2019: In San Leandro, CA, Temple Beth Sholom is
scheduled to host “Shanghai Angel” during which “Soprano Heather Klein sings
the story of her grandmother fleeing Nazi-occupied Austria for China and then
U.S. With pianist Joshua Horovitz.”
2019: The Fattal Rock Festival is scheduled to
continue for a second day in Eilat.
2020: San Jose State University is scheduled to
host “A Day to Honor and Study Jewish Military Service” which includes the
opening of the exhibit “Uncommon Valor: Jewish-American Medal of Honor Heroes,”
the “2020 Jewish Studies Levinson Memorial Lecture: “American Jews and Military
Service” by Judge Quentin Kopp, the 2020 Burdick Military History Symposium:
Jewish Military History, moderated by Dr. Jonathan Roth, Professor of History,
San Jose State University, “Zionists in the Red Army during the Russian Civil
War” by Ignat Ayzenberg, Coordinator of Jewish Studies, San Jose State
University, “The Boys of Camp Ritchie: From refugees to instruments of justice”
by Lieutenant-Colonel Erik Brun, California State Guard Military Museum Command”
and Jewish Military Chaplains: An American Tale”
Dr. Ronit Stahl, Assistant Professor,
Department of History, U.C. Berkeley
2020: The
New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including Strung Out: One Last Hit and Other
Lies That Nearly Killed Me
A Memoir by Erin Khar of New York City, who is
developing a spiritual practice, and for whom “ultimately converting to Judaism,
has been pivotal to her recovery from heroin addiction.”
2020: In response to a coronavirus outbreak
that has impacted the family of Lawrence Garbuz and Rabbi Reuven Fink Young
members Israel of New Rochelle “who attended a bar mitzvah and funeral in late
February have been asked to self-quarantine until at least” through today.
2020: The JCC Chicago Film Festival is
scheduled to host the mid-west premiere of “Chichinette: How I Accidentally
Became a Spy” which tells “the untold story of Marthe Cohn, a 98-year-old
French-Jewish woman who was a spy in Nazi Germany in WWII.”
2020: The East Bay International Jewish Film
Festival is scheduled to host screenings of “The Best of Enemies” and
“Unsettled: Seeking Refuge in America.”
2020: Two days after having cancelled flights
to “San Francisco and a number of European cities amid a global drop in travel
over fears about the new coronavirus,” today, El Al “was also expected to
cancel flights to Munich, Budapest, Amsterdam, Brussels, Bucharest, Vienna and
Marseille.”
2020: “Due to the current coronavirus outbreak
and restrictions on travel, Isaac Herzog will not be traveling to Boston for today’s
Birnbaum Lecture.”
2020: “The Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth
County, NJ is scheduled to host a screening of “The Life and Times of Hank
Greenberg.”
2020: The Israeli Film Festival of Philadelphia
is scheduled to host a screening of “The Art of Waiting.”
2020: This evening, in New Orleans, Tulane
University is scheduled to host a lecture organized under the leadership of
Brian Horowitz, the Sizeler Family of the Jewish Studies Department on “The
Frankist Movement in 18th Century Poland: What Happened to This Jewish
Messianic Group?” by Professor Pawel Maciejko, of Johns Hopkins University.
2021: East Bay International Jewish Film
Festival is scheduled to present a screening of “Six Minutes To Midnight,” a thriller
about a murder at a finishing school for the daughters of high-ranking Nazis,
starring Judi Dench as the headmistress.
2021: The Park Synagogue is scheduled to host Rediscovering
the Music of the Italian Jewish Ghettos” during which Jeannette Sorrell,
Artistic Director of Apollo’s Fire, Cleveland premier baroque orchestra, and
Howard Bender, their Executive Director, in an interview will talk about
Apollo’s Fire and their next concert, “Tapestry: The Jewish Ghettos of Baroque
Italy.”
2021: YIVO is scheduled to present “Leaving
Behind the Foyen-Vinkl or How Women Functioned in the Male World of Yiddish
Theatre.”
https://programs.cjh.org/tags/livestreams
2021: Shalom Bayit and JCC East Bay are
scheduled to “present a workshop for International Women’s Day about domestic
abuse and the Jewish community.”
2021: Israel’s economy
is scheduled to reopen its doors for a second day as the country entered its
final phase of lifting coronavirus lockdown restrictions, some of them in place
since September
on the morning after it had been reported Israel’s contagion has risen to 4.5%
— “the highest such figure in days.”
2022: Volodymyr Zelensky, the Jewish president
of Ukraine addressed the British Parliament by telelink, echoing Winston
Churchill and quoting William Shakespeare: “The question for us is, ‘To be or
not to be.’”
2022: President Isaac Herzog of Israel is
scheduled to visit to visit the President of Turkey today.
2022: All Jewish Theatre is scheduled to a
“Board Nosh” with Leah Halmos and Ari Weinberg, moderated by Yehda Jai Husband
which will provide “a chance for the AJT community to get to know the board
members better.”
2023(15th of Adar,5783): Shushan
Purim
2023: Temple Emmanuel’s Rabbi Oksana Chapman is
scheduled to facilitate an online Zoom course on Jewish identity, literacy, and
values based on Rabbi Joseph Telushkin’s writings and the course participants’
lived experiences.
2023: In honor of International Women’s
Day, The Weizmann National Museum of
American Jewish History is scheduled to host the Philadelphia Jewish Film and
Media’s screening of Valeria is Getting Married.
2023: In “Ghosts in the Gallery: Historic
Synagogues and American Jewish Religion,” Prof. Gross is scheduled to discuss
how historic synagogues encourage Jewish and non-Jewish visitors to feel
nostalgia for Eastern European Jewish immigration histories, creating religious
communities that include Jews, non-Jews, and ghostly ancestors.
2023: Dr. Richard Kogan is scheduled to return
to Streicker Center “to shine his unique musical and psychiatric spotlight on
Leonard Bernstein — to explore his exuberance, his need for adulation, his deep
loneliness and to perform some of the composer’s beloved favorites, including
“Somewhere,” “Maria” and “America.”
2023: Laureen Lipsky, the CEO and founder of
Taking Back the Narrative is scheduled to deliver the last lecture on “Israel
Explained: Through the Lens of History.”
2023: In Waterloo, IA, Rabbi Kushner is
scheduled to read the Megillah at a Purim Celebration at Sons of Jacob.
2024: In Louisiana, Chabad Metairie is
scheduled to a “Shabbaton featuring lecturer Rabbi Abba and Chani Perlmutter.”
2024: As part of the Young Artists in Concert
series, Kan Kol Hamusika is scheduled to broadcast live Singers of
“Meitar” Opera Studio of the Israel Opera.
2024: Tulane University is scheduled to host
“the investiture of Ilana M. Horowitz, PhD, as the inaugural hold of the
Fields-Ryant Chair in Contemporary Jewish Life.
2024: JWI’s Deborah Rosenbloom is scheduled to
be honored at the 2024 International Law Conference on the Status of Women,
hosted by the New York City Bar Association today
2024: As March
8th begins in Israel, the Hamas held hostages begin
day 154 in captivity.
(Editor’s note: this situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so we
are just providing a snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time.)
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