February 16 In History
600:
Pope Gregory the Great decrees that the phrase "God bless You" is an
appropriate response to a sneeze. Gregory's policy in regard to the Jews is
expressed in the following sentence, which was adopted by later popes as a
fixed introductory formula to bulls in favor of the Jews: "Just as no
freedom may be granted to the Jews in their communities to exceed the limits
legally set for them, so they should in no way suffer through a violation of
their rights" (As reported by the Jewish Encyclopedia)
1086:
In response to a solar eclipse, citizens of Sicily burn torches and lamps
during normal daylight hours. Jews would have been among those burning these
lights. They had been living in Sicily since the end of the Great Revolt in 70
when they came to the island as slaves.
Jews lived at Palermo, Syracuse and Catania. The community would survive until they were
expelled as part of the Spanish Inquisition.
1249:
Louis IX of France, also known as St. Louis, dispatched Andrew of Longjumeau as
his ambassador to meet with Mongol Khagan of the Mongol Empire. Louis was in
Egypt engaged in the first of his two Crusades aimed at regaining the Holy Land
from the “Islamic infidels.” Andrew’s
mission was part of an attempt to forge an alliance with the Mongols against
the Moslems. Louis had financed his
first crusade (known to history as The Seventh Crusade) in part by expelling
all of the Jews engaged in usury and confiscating their property. Further acts
of his pre-Crusade piety included the burning of some 12,000 manuscript copies
of the Talmud and other Jewish books and an expansion of the Inquisition. The alliance with the Mongols failed to
materialize and the crusade was a total failure.
1349:
The Jews were expelled from Burgsdorf Switzerland
1570:
The Jews miraculously escaped the impact a violent earthquake in Italy.
1616:
Elias Felice Montalto passed away.
Montalto had converted to Christianity but later returned to
Judaism. A physician and author who had
lived in Venice, Montalto was living in Paris and serving as the private physician
to Queen Maria de Medici at the time of his death. The queen had him embalmed and sent to the
Jewish cemetery at Ouderkerk near Amsterdam.
1799:
French forces under Napoleon Bonaparte occupied the Egyptian town of El Arresh
after an eight day siege. The French Army then began a march towards Khan
Younis and Gaza.
1837:
Birthdate of Asher Asher the native of Glasgow who was the first Jew in
Scotland to become a doctor of medicine and the author of The Jewish Rite of
Circumcision.
1854:
L'étoile du
nord (The North Star) an opéra comique in three acts by Giacomo Meyerbeer was performed
at the Salle Favart by the company of the Opéra-Comique, Paris, for the first
time today. Meyerbeer whose birth named Jacbo Liebmann Beer, was the son of the
German-Jewish financier Jacob Judah Herz Beer and Amalia Liebmann Meyer Wulff
1857:
An article published today entitled "Strange Piece of Rascality and
Shysterism" reported on an apparent attempt to defraud Samuel Goldberry
who had been arrested on a charge of petty larceny last March and who was still
waiting to stand trial. According to the
article "Heitman, a Jew," a police officer named Frank White, a man
named Piser, a Jew named Rosenbaum and a Jew named Rosenberg, conspired to con
Goldberry out of $165.00.
[Interestingly, the author only the Jews were identified by religion.]
1857:
The National Deaf Mute College (later renamed Gallaudet University Washington ,
DC
1869:
Birthdate of Julius Tandler native of Moravia who became a physician and
political leader in Vienna.
1870: The Jews of Sweden were emancipated.
1871:
The Executive Committee of the Hebrew Charity Fair presented Emanual B. Hart
with an engraved silver dinner service tonight in recognition of the services
he has rendered in making the latest fund raiser a successful event. Mr. S.L. Cohen made the presentation speech
and Mr. Hart responded with the appropriate words and toasts.
1872:
It was reported today that the of the 73 private charitable institutions in New
York City controlled by religious denominations that received state aide in
1870, two of them were controlled by Jewish organizations. They received $11, 453.72 out of a total
allocation of $688,048.86. No final figures were available for 1871.
1872:
It was reported today that Mr. Rosenfeldt had committed suicide in Kingston,
Jamaica. Mr. Rosenfeldt had converted to Christianity from Judaism. Many of the Jews in Kingston thought that
Rosenfeldt had changed his mind. But in
a suicide note written to the Bishop the deceased said he had killed himself
because “others were conspiring against” and he wanted to leave part of his
estate to those working to convert Jews. [Editor’s note – I can find no further
reference to Mr. Rosenfeldt or his family who was living in Germany at the time
of his death.]
1880:
David Harfeld, the brother of Rabbi Eugene Harfeld failed to return the furnished
room he was renting with his wife, the former Julia Harlan. This desertion would lead to charges of
bigamy in case that would be heard nine years later.
1880:
Telegrams were received in Cleveland, Ohio from Evansville, Indiana, inquiring
about the whereabouts of Bethold Landua, the Secretary of Kescher Sher Bassel.
Landau, who has not been heard from in two weeks, has possession of nearly
$40,000 of the society’s money. The
society is holding its annual national convention in Evansville.
1881:
Birthdate of Hans Meiser, the pro-Nazi Nuremberg native who served as Bishop of
the Bavarian Evangelical-Lutheran Church.
In 1938 he imposed the following loyalty oath: I swear to God the
Almighty and Alknowing: I will be loyal and obedient to the Führer of the Reich
and Volk, Adolf Hitler, I will obey the laws, and I will conscientiously
fulfill all my official duties, so help me God."
1882:
According to the Times of London, the British Foreign Office is about to issue
a report based on information provided by its consular officials describing
attacks on the Jews living in Russia.
While there are no proven “cases of the violation of women” there is
clear evidence of “other serious outrages.” If the authorities had used the
proper amount of force, “the outrages” might have been confined to a more
limited area. For obvious reason, the
Jews still living in Russia have been reluctant to provide information to the
British officials. [Editor’s Note – Use the term “outrages” to describe a
Pogrom must be a classic example of the English penchant for understatement.]
1885(1st
of Adar, 5645): Rosh Chodesh Adar
1890:
The 23 piece Hebrew Orphan Asylum Band played at this evening’s concert sponsored
by the Seligman Solomon Society.
1891:
It was reported today that Lewis May and Jesse Seligman spoke at the memorial
service held to honor the memory of Lazarus Rosenfeld. They recounted “his efforts in the founding
of Mount Sinai Hospital, the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, the Home for the Aged, the
Montefiore Home and Temple Emanu-El.”
1891:
It was reported today that the newly elected officers of the Jewish Alliance of
America are: President – Simon Wolf of Philadelphia; Vice Presidents – Dr. H.W.
Schneeberg of Baltimore, Dr. Charles D. Spivak of Philadelphia and Ferdinand
Levy of New York; Secretary – Barnard Harris of Philadelphia; Treasurer – Simon
Wolf of Washington, D.C. The goal of the alliance is to help teach the newly
arriving immigrants from Russia “habits of self-support” with an emphasis on
farming.
1892:
As the outbreak of typhus fever continues to spread, The Health Department is
scheduled to accept the offer of the Immigration Commissioners to use Ward’s
Island as a quarantine site for those found to be suffering from typhus. The fever
seems to be most prevalent among recently arriving immigrants including a large
number of Jews from Russia.
1892:
The Second Conference of the Russian American Hebrew Agricultural Fund
Association will meet this evening at the Hebrew Institute on East Broadway.
1892:
It was reported today that all of the 84 people quarantined on North Brother
Island because of typhus fever are Jewish immigrants from Russia who arrived
aboard the SS Massilia.
1896:
“Synagogue Members In A Fight” published today described fight that broke
between supporters of Solomon Bentowski and Heyman Solomon during the business
meeting of synagogue that met at 112 Clinton Street in New York. The police
were called but no arrests were made.
1897: The third monthly conference of representatives of New York City charities including N.S. Rosenau of the United Hebrew Charities is scheduled to take place today.
1898:
It was reported that Judge Meyer S. Isaacs will speak at the next meeting of
the Young Men’s Hebrew Association.
1899:
French
President Félix Faure dies in office.
Faure was the “addressee” of one of the most famous letters in Jewish
History. On January 13, 1898 The French newspaper L’Aurore published a
letter written by Emile Zola entitled J’accuse addressed to Faure. The letter exposed the conspiracy known as
the Dreyfus Affair.
1902:
In a letter to the Sultan, Herzl summarizes his negotiations. The Sultan's
decision is unfavorable.
1910:
Colonel Claude Reignier Conder passed away. During his service with the Corps
of Engineers, Concor took part in a survey of Western Palestine from 1872 to
1874 along with Lieutenant Horatio Kitchener, the future British military leader
known as Lord Kitchener. He also served
two tours with the Palestine Exploration Fund Among his literary accounts of
his work were Tent Work in Palestine,
Memories” The Survey of Western and Eastern Palestine, and The City
of Jerusalem.
1912:
A Turkish Jew, G. Valensin Bey, who was a member of the municipal council of
Alexandria, was appointed Commander of the Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus
by the King of Italy
1913: “After an interregnum of eighteen months and a spirited contest
between candidates, Dr. Joseph H. Hertz of New York was to-day elected Chief
Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Empire at a meeting of
the Electoral College, presided over by Lord Rothschild, President of the
United Synagogue.”
1915(2nd of Adar, 5675): French composer Emil
Waldteufel passed away.
1917:
After 425 years, dedication of the first synagogue to open in Madrid. We
all know about 1492 when the Jews were expelled. Now we know a
little about their official readmission.
1918:
Lithuania proclaimed its independence from Germany. Lithuania
1926:
Birthdate of British born film director John Schlesinger. Schlesinger won the
Oscar for Best Director for his work on “Midnight Cowboy” which won the 1969
Oscar for Best Picture.
1927: Birthdate of British actress June Muriel Brown.
1930:
On New York’s Lower East Side, Rabbi
Yitzchak Mattisyahu Weinberg and his wife Hinda gave birth to Yisrael Noah Weinberg
the Rosh Yeshiva at Aish HaTorah.
1932(8th
of Adar I, 5692): Sir
Edgar Speyer, 1st Baronet passed away. He was an American-born financier and
philanthropist who became a British subject in 1892 and was chairman of Speyer
Brothers, the British branch of his family's international finance house, and a
partner in the German and American branches. He was stripped of his honors as a
British citizen following a smear campaign that accused him of being pro-German
during World War I.
1932:
Birthdate of Romanian born and Holocaust survivor Israeli novelist Aharon
Appelfeld. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/appelfeld.html
1932:
Birthday of Harry Goz who played Tevye in “Fiddler on the Roof” on Broadway in
1966 and 1967.
1932:
The New York
Times said of Cardozo's appointment that "seldom, if ever, in the
history of the Court has an appointment been so universally commended"
1934:
The Austrian Civil War, also known as the February Uprising which had begun on
February 12 came to an end today. When the dust settled, the Socialists were in
disarray and/or in exile while the right combined to form what their enemies
called Austrofascism which did not share the anti-Semitism of German fascism.
1935:
Birthdate of Barbara Myerhoff, acclaimed anthropologist and documentary
filmmaker.
1935:
Birthdate of Gilbert de Botton, the financier who invented the open
architecture model of asset management. A native of Alexandria Egypt, he was a
descendant of a distinguished Sephardic family whose ancestors included Abraham
de Boton. His mother was Yolande Harmer,
a Zionist who was imprisoned by the Egyptians on charges of spying for Israel.
(As reported by The Telegraph)
1936:
In honor of her 75th birthday, Henrietta Szold, American Zionist
leader will be honored today by the Jews of Palestine with the title of
“freewoman” which makes her an honorary citizen of Tel Aviv The title is the
feminine form of “freeman” that has been confirmed on such leaders as the Earl
of Balfour and former British Prime Minister David Lloyd George. The Jewish community is also collecting funds
for a social welfare project to be named for Miss Szold.
1936:
Birthdate of Jerusalem native Eliahu Inbal the Israeli conductor.
1938:
“Benito Mussolini issues an official declaration that there is no ‘Jewish
Problem’ in Italy and the Fascist government isn't considering any special
anti-Semitic measures. This will change in July, 1938, when Jews are stripped
of their Italian citizenship and banned from many professions.”
1938: The Palestine Post reported that two Jews were wounded when Arabs fired at a Jewish bus which was on its way to the Kastel quarries. Over a dozen of shooting incidents and attempts to sever communications were reported from all over the country.
1938:
The Palestine Post reported that the
total number of Jewish immigrants in 1937 was 12,475, compared to 31,671 a year
earlier. Of these, 3,648 immigrants came from Poland Germany Palestine
1938:
Abraham Pais was awarded two Bachelor of Science degrees in physics and
mathematics, with minors in chemistry and astronomy. [Pais was the Dutch born
Physicist who survived the Holocaust and came to America to pursue his career.
The Abraham Pais Prize for the History of Physics attests to the esteem in
which he was held by his colleagues.]
1943:
The White Rose, an anti-Nazi group posted a sign in Munich, Germany, reading
“Out with Hitler! Long live
freedom!” The members of White Rose were
not Jewish, but they were a courageous group that did what it could to oppose
Hitler. Many of its members were caught
and beheaded, a favorite form of death among the Nazis.
1944(22nd
of Shevat, 5704): Danish writer and director Henri Nathansen passed away. Born
in 1868, he gave up his legal career to become an author and theatrical
director. His Jewish background provided a major theme for some of his efforts.
“His best known work, ‘Inside the Walls,’
premiered in 1912 and centers around a wealthy, loving, but conservative Jewish
family whose only daughter breaks away from tradition by attending lectures at
the university and secretly becoming engaged to her teacher, a gentile.” His 1932 novel Mendel Philipsen and Son,
features “a Jewish woman who falls in love with a gentile painter but instead
enters into a loveless marriage with her Jewish cousin…” In 1929, he wrote a
biography of fellow Danish Jew, Georg Brandes. In October 1943, when the Nazis
attempted to round up the Danish Jews, Nathansen fled to Sweden just four
months before his death.
1947:
Famed violinist
Isaac Stern joins Jack Benny in a laughed filled appearance on the Jack Benny
Program.
1947:
Morton Gould's 3rd Symphony premiered.
In 1995 Gould won the Pulitzer Prize for “Stringfellow.”
1948:
The Arabs began their first organized attack, on Tirat Tzvi. Tirat Tzvi
(Zevi's Castle) was a Kibbutz founded in 1937 near the Jordanian
border. It was named in memory of Rabbi Zevi Hirsh Klaischer who urged his
fellow Jews to form a national movement following the failed revolutions of
1848 in Europe . In 1862, he published a
book combining the themes of agriculture and spiritual re-awakening in
what was then called Palestine Israel Germany Palestine Mandate
Territory
1953:
The Jerusalem Post reported that from
the establishment of the state in May 1948 to the end of 1952, 707,576
immigrants arrived, including 124,225 from Iraq Romania Poland North Africa and 48,447 from Yemen Aden
1953:
The Jerusalem Post reported that
Israel had sent anti-typhoid vaccine to flood victims in Holland.
1953:
The Jerusalem Post reported that forty
prominent American senators prepared a program of action to stop the excesses
of the anti-Semitic propagandists in the Soviet Union and its satellite
nations.
1963: The
first of the articles that, in expanded form, would become Eichmann in Jerusalem, Hannah
Arendt's most controversial work, was published in The New Yorker
1967:
The original West End production of “Fiddler on the Roof” opened on at Her
Majesty's Theatre and played for 2,030 performances. It starred Chaim Topol, as
Tevye and Miriam Karlin as Golde.
1972(1st
of Adar, 5732): Rosh Chodesh Adar
1974(24th
of Shevat, 5734): German born, Harvard educated philosopher Horace Kallen
passed away.
1978:
The Jerusalem Post reported that two
persons were killed and 46 injured when an Arab threw a bomb at a bus passing
through Rehov Tzefania in Jerusalem.
1978:
The Jerusalem Post reported that in
Washington the US Administration threatened to withdraw its request for the
sale of advanced F-15 and F-16 fighter planes to Israel if Congress blocked the
sale of F-15s to Saudi Arabia and F-5Es to Egypt.
1985:
The founding of Hezbollah, another Arab/Moslem terror group dedicated, in part,
to the destruction of the state of Israel.
1986(7th
of Adar I. 5746): Actor Howard Da Silva passed away at the age of 76. Da Silva had a long career as a character
actor. His work in Hollywood
1987:
The Demjanjuk trial opened in Jerusalem Israel United States United States
1990:
Elyakim
Rubenstein, the Cabinet secretary, called Ariel Sharon here at his ranch today,
just to be sure he was serious about his intention to resign.
1991:
At Shabbat synagogue
services, congregants were mindful of the deaths of Iraqi civilians, but they
were also reminded that Israel had been subjected to indiscriminate Iraqi
missile attacks for more than a month and that fighting was the price of peace.
Worshippers at the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue on the Upper West Side of
Manhattan expressed regret over the killing of Iraqi civilians and said they
were disturbed by the television images of broken bodies. But most said their
support for the war was undimmed. "War is a terrible thing," said
Billy Sussis. But he added that the deaths of the civilians had not shaken his
support for the allied effort. "If you're going to fight a war, terrible
things like this are going to happen." Rabbi Helene Ferris, however,
expressed hope that the incident would "wake up the world's
conscience" and disrupt wide impressions of a bloodless conflict.
"War is about killing," she declared. "It's about mothers
bleeding, fathers bleeding. If we lose sight of that, we may stop trying to
find a better way." At the Forest Hills Jewish Center in Queens, Rabbi
Gerald C. Skolnik, just back from a visit to Israel, gave his congregation
graphic impressions of life in a war zone: an old woman standing beside the
ruins of her home in Tel Aviv, an infant in a gas-mask crib, wailing sirens in
the night, the sight of his own parents donning gas masks and the vibration of
windows as the missiles exploded nearby. "It's not just that the air raids
are terrifying, though certainly they are," Rabbi Skolnik said. "It's
more that the entire rhythm of the country has been thrown out of kilter."
1992:
An Israeli helicopter strike killed the Secretary-General of Hezbollah, Abbas
al-Musawi. According to western
officials, al-Musawi was responsible for numerous terrorist attacks including
the 1983 terror attack in Beirut U.S.
1997: The first Conference on Feminism and Orthodoxy
opens in New York City. The
conference leads to the founding of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance
1997: The
New York Times
includes a review of The Boy Who Went Away, “Eli Gottlieb’s touching
coming-of-age novel…”
1998:
The funeral of Abraham Bloch, a graduate of Yeshiva Yitzchak Elchanan who
served as the Rabbi of Congregation Petach Tikvah, is scheduled to take place
in Brooklyn, NY today.
1998(20th
of Shevat, 5758): Martha Gellhorn, whose
father was Jewish, passed away at the age of 89. Gellhorn gained fame for her reporting during
the Spanish Civil War and as one of the many wives of Ernest Hemingway.
1999:
The United States Third Court of Appeals ruled on the constitutionality of
holiday displays in ACLU versus Schundler.
2000:
In an address before the Knesset, German President Johannes Rau asked forgiveness
for Germany’s murderous treatment of Europe’s Jews during World War II.
2006:
Britain's most senior Jewish leader has condemned the Church of England for
voting this month to review its investments in companies whose products are
used by Israel in the occupied territories. Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks said the
Anglican vote on whether to pull money from "companies profiting from the
illegal occupation" was ill-judged and would inflame relations between the
two religions.
2007:
Sheik Raed Salah, the head of the Islamic Movement’s northern branch gave a
sermon in Jersualem’s Wadi Joz neighborhood in which he “urged supporters to
start a third intifada in order to save Al-Aksa Mosque, free Jerusalem and end
the end occupation.” Salah, who denies
any Jewish historical claim to Jerusalem or the existence of a Jewish temple on
the Temple Mount included these words, “We are not those who ate bread dipped
in children’s blood.” (The Blood Libel
is alive and well.)
2007:
The Sabbath Queen gets a royal welcome at Temple Judah Cedar Rapids , Iowa
2007(28th of Shevat,
5767): Mordkhe Schaechter, a leading Yiddish linguist who spent a lifetime
studying, standardizing and teaching the language passed away at the age of 79.
As reported by Wolfgang Saxon)
2008: The Jerusalem
Cinematheque features a showing of the internationally acclaimed “The Band’s Visit” ( ביקור התזמורת).
2009: In New Orleans, “The Expanse of Russia in Israel,” an international
conference sponsored by Tulane University’s Jewish Studies Program under the
Chairmanship of Dr. Brian Horowitz, enters its second day. “The conference is devoted to a long-awaited
investigation of Zionism and the influence of secular Russian culture on
Israeli life.” Given the rise of Beiteinu leader Avigdor
Lieberman, the topic of this conference becomes all the more urgent and timely.
2009: France's top judicial body formally recognized the nation's role in
deporting Jews to Nazi death camps during the Holocaust - but effectively ruled
out any more reparations for the deportees or their families.
2009: The German officer made famous in Roman Polanski's 2002 film The Pianist for sheltering two Jews who escaped from the Nazis during the Holocaust has been posthumously recognized as Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust Memorial. Wilm Hosenfeld was drafted into the German Army shortly before the outbreak of World War II and was stationed in Poland, where he spent most of the war as a sports and culture officer. During the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, he interrogated prisoners. After the war, Hosenfeld was arrested and tried by the Soviets and sentenced to life imprisonment. His sentence was subsequently commuted to 25 years, but Hosenfeld died in a Soviet prison in 1952. Over the years, the testimony of two Holocaust survivors was presented to Yad Vashem, detailing how the German officer had provided them with shelter from the Nazis. Leon Wurm testified that Hosenfeld employed him at the sports center after his escape from the train to Treblinka, while Wladyslaw wrote to Yad Vashem, as well as in his diaries (which became the basis for the film), that in November 1944 Hosenfeld helped him find a hiding place and that he provided blankets, food and moral support. Yad Vashem had previously considering bestowing the German officer with its highest honor for saving the pair, but waited until it was clear that he was not involved in war crimes during the Warsaw Uprising. Recently, new material, including Hosenfeld's personal diaries, and letters to his wife were reviewed by Yad Vashem, which clarify his "consistent stance" against the Nazi policy toward the Jews, Yad Vashem said. In his writing, Hosenfeld stressed his growing disgust with the regime's oppression of Poles, the persecution of Polish clergy, abuse of the Jews, and, with the beginning of the Final Solution, his horror at the extermination of the Jewish people. Although Hosenfeld supported the Nazi party in its beginnings, it is clear that as he saw the consequences of the Nazis' rise to power, his opposition to them was deep and consistent, Yad Vashem said. Hosenfeld's children, who live in Germany, will receive the medal and certificate on their late father's behalf. More than 22,000 non-Jews have been recognized as "Righteous Among the Nations" by Yad Vashem.
2010: Yeshiva University Museum, Center for Jewish History, University of Pennsylvania in cooperation with Centro Primo Levi are scheduled to present “Between Sacred and Profane: Jews and the Modern City: Three Snapshots” part of “a series of talks by fellows at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies (U of Penn) who are engaged in a critical analysis of the notions of the "secular" and "religious" as they affect all aspects of Jewish life over the past three centuries.
2010: Israel will erect a
memorial commemorating the Red Army’s crucial role in the victory over the
Nazis, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told Russian Prime Minster Vladimir
Putin at a photo opportunity before their meeting today.
2010: Four hundred
cadets graduated from the IDF Infantry Officers Training Course today and will
be awarded the rank of second lieutenant. The highest number of awards for excellence went to the Golani Brigade.
2011: “Jewish Life in Mr.
Lincoln’s City,” a lecture by Laura Cohen Apelbaum the Executive Director of
the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington, is scheduled to take place at Adas Israel in
Washington, D.C.
2011: “Precious
Life,” an “acclaimed documentary that explores the paradoxes of a Palestinian
infant being treated for a rare immune disorder at an Israeli hospital” during
a period when the IDF was fighting to halt rocket attacks from Gaza, is
scheduled to be shown at the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival.
2011: The Jewish
community of Tunisia filed an official complaint with Tunisian Interior
Minister Fahrat Rajhi after several of its members were harassed by protesters
last Friday outside a synagogue in the capital, Tunis.
2011: Human rights lawyers
are attempting to challenge a government decision designating the planned city
of Harish as a haredi-only town. In a letter sent today to the
directors-general committee established by the government to promote the city’s
establishment, attorneys Michael Sfard and Ishai Shneydor, representing
residents of the region, wrote that the plan to populate Harish with only
haredi residents was unconstitutional.
2011: The Iron Dome missile
intercept system will be declared operational within a number of weeks, after
the Israel Air Force – who will be responsible for operating the system –
conducted successful test-runs for the first time yesterday and today.
2011(11th of
Adar I, 5771): Len
Lesser, a veteran character actor best known for his recurring role in the
1990s as Uncle Leo on the hit NBC-TV comedy "Seinfeld," passed away
today at the age of 88 8n Burbank, CA ( As reported by Bruce Weber)
2011: Today in celebration
of Black History month Knicks legend and Assistant General Manager Allan
Houston received the 2011 Martin Luther King Jr. Award in front of players and
fans at Madison Square Garden. Mr. Houston received the award from Ido Aharoni,
Acting Consul General of Israel in New York, in honor of his efforts in
spreading compassion and uniting communities of all backgrounds.
2012: “Ahead of Time: The
Extraordinary Journey of Ruth Gruber” is scheduled to be shown at the Conservative
Synagogue Adath Israel of Riverdale in New York.
2012: Yasmin Levy is
scheduled to weave her Ladino musical magic at Pace University’s Michael
Schimmel Center for the Arts
2012:
Mossad chief
Tamir Pardo visited New Delhi just days before an attack on Israeli officials
in the Indian capital this week, Indian media reported today, highlighting the
extent to which Israeli intelligence was in the dark regarding possibility of a
terror attack taking place in the country.
2012:
Today, the Foreign Ministry issued a travel warning for Israelis in Thailand.
The warning said that in the wake of the attacks on Israelis in India and
Georgia earlier this week, Israelis should “act with caution” when traveling in
Thailand.
2012:
Yair Lapid warned today that Israel might "bring on its own demise"
and demanded a change in the system of government.
2013:
Cirque du Purim, the YLD”s annual Purim Party is scheduled to take place in
Irvine, CA this evening.
2013:
“Off White Lies” is scheduled to be shown at the Denver Jewish Film Festival
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